The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

The Murder Near Lisburn.

On Monday, Mr. Ward, coroner for the county Down,
held an adjourned inquest into the circumstances connected
with the murder of a young lad named Thomas Graham,
who was brutally shot at Ballymacbrennan on the morning
of the 11th. Since the frightful occurrence took place the
police have been most assidous in their inquiries, with a
view to the discovery of the murderer, and although the
information they have gleaned is not such as positively to
attach the guilt to any person, the suspicion is strong,
alinost amounting to a moral certainty, that the peruetplor
who some yeats ago was transported, chiefly on the evidence
of the lad Graham's father, at whom, it is believed, the gun
was fired, for having stolen a sheep, the property of a farmer
named Wilson, residing at Ballymacbrennan.
A number of witnesses were examined, who deposed
to having, on the morning of the occurrence, seen a per-
son answering to the description of Logue pass along the
road in the direction of Belfast. It appears that the per-
son alluded to went about nine o'clock on the morning in
question to the residence of a farmer named William
Moore, of Ballyleeson, by whom he was employed to assist
in shearing, at the low rate of 6d. a day. Here he remained
for four days. He was always asking what was the news,
and was partially anxious to see the newspapers. I
should state he gave his name as William Shaw when he
went to Moore's ; and when the murder was mentioned in
conversation, especially at meal hours, he said he knew
Logue, whom he represented to be an awful headstrong
fellow. Suspicion fell upon him ; and Mrs. Moore was ao
unfavourably impressed with his appearance that she would
not allow him to sleep in the dwelling house. Ha was ac-
commodated with a bed in the barn.

Mrs. Moore said—l remember that on the morning of the
murder a man came into our house. It was between 9 and
10 o'clock when he came in. He was employed by my hus-
band as a shearer. He stayed from Friday till Tuesday. I
looked at him when he came in with suspicion. I did not
like his look. My husband engaged him at 6d. a day. When
I found he was engaged, I said he should not sleep in the
house, but that he might sleep outside. He was put into
the barn to sleep. I used to listen to the talk at meal-
times and in the evenings. I heard him say that Logue
was an awful fellow, and that ho was a headstrong fellow.
I asked Shaw (for such he gave as his name)what he would
shoot the young fellow for, and he replied, "Graham
swore to the rope when Logue was transported." I under-
stood that the rope he referred to was the one that was
round the sheep. I hoard him say another day that a
farmer named Carson had sworn against Logue, and had
given him a bad character at the trial. Carson's stacks
and houses were since burned. He said Carson was a bad
man, and that Logue would have a " hop" at him yet. I
then said, " How would he have a hop at him ?" "Oh !"
says he, "he will wait till the dark winter nights come in."
I do not remember whether he said it was Logue that shot
the boy or not. He seemed afraid of the police. They were
going past one evening, and he would not go out. He was
always asking about the news of the murder. One night he
said he had been fined by the Rev. Mr. Mansell in is. 6d. for
throwing bullets on the road. He was working in our house
as " Bill Shaw." That attracted my attention, and I asked
Mr. Monsell if it was a man named Bill Shaw he fined, and
he said it was John Logue. He also said that he and his
party put stones on the road to throw at Mr. Monsell's
horses on his way home from Hilaborough, as revenge for
fining him. I asked Mr. Monsell about that too, and he
remembered it, and said that it wasLogue he fined. He left
our house very suddenly. My son said to him one evening,
"Bill, I'll tell the police there is a stranger here," and that
night he went away. He took two shirts out of my wash-
tub and a reaping hook with him. One of my sons saw a
letter with him addressed to a person in Lisburn. He also
felt shot in a parcel which he had, and he saw a pair of
sugar-tongs broken in three pieces. He wrote on ono of the
doors that I was a rascal.

The letter and sugar tongs, it is hoped, will enable the
police to discover the whereabouts of Logue, who was lost
sight of a few miles from Lisburn, going in the direction of
Ballinderry. A man named John Leathem, who belongs to
Portadown, was arrested on suspicion, on Saturday evening
at Ballinderry, but was discharged by order of the coroner,
there being nothing to criminate him. The account he gave
of himself was that, when arrested, he was going home from
Crowe Hill, where ho was assisting a friend to pull flax. A
nephew of Mr. Graham's, named George Kearney, was ar-
rested in Glynn on suspicion, but was discharged.
The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against
some person or persons unknown.—Dublin Express.

TILE LATE QUAKER CASE.-A worthy member
of the Society of Friends at Manchester was much
scandalised on reading in the papers that Mr. Joseph Carson
took off his hat on the second occasion of his appearance
before Mr. Baron Bramwell, as a juryman at Liverpool.
He therefore wrote to Mr. Carson himself ou the subject,
and received the following reply :—" Respected friend,--
I have just received thy letter, and may inform thee that
1 did not appear in court uncovered, as stated in the papers,
my hat having been removed and taken away by an officer
of the court. It was also stated in the public prints that I
addressed the judge as My lord,'—also an error, as I could
not conscientiously thus address any human being. I
much regret that the circumstance has been so incorrectly
brought before the public mind ; but I am favoured with
the feeling of peace from the conviction that I have acted
in accordance with my conscience and principles through-
out.—Thy friend, JOSEPH CARSON."