The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 1.
Mr. Braddell, who was shot in Dobbyn's Hotel,
in the town of Tipperary, on Wednesday, died yes-
terday morning of the wounds then inflicted. An
inquest was held on the body yesterday afternoon.
It was attended by a large number of the local ma-
gistrates. The dying declaration of Mr. Braddell,
and the evidence of Daniel Moore, land bailiff, who
was in the room at the time, clearly charged Michael
Hayes with the murder. The jury having heard
other evidence establishing the charge, returned
the following verdict :—" That John Braddell came
to his death from a pistol shot fired by Michael
Hayes, in the hotel of Mr. Dobbyn, in the town of
Tipperary, on Wednesday, the 30th of July inst."
This outrage is the most daring and desperate yet
perpetrated even in Tipperary. The victim is Mr.
John Walter Braddell, of Mallow, in the county of
Cork, a gentleman long known and much respected.
He was agent to several other gentlemen in the
counties of Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary, and was
on this occasion receiving rents for Colonel Hare.
He had been accustomed to receive them on the
lands, but some ill-feeling having been manifested
by Hayes, he took a back parlour in the hotel for
an office. Hayes, the accused, was one of the
tenants who, it is said, were threatened with evic-
tion. This man entered the room about half-past 2
o'clock, and demanded an abatement in his rent.
Mr. Braddell refused, and, perhaps offended by his
manner, ordered him to leave the room. He was not
alone with the assassin ; there were two other per-
sons in the room, a gentleman named Reardon and
bailiff named Moore. Notwithstanding their pre-
sence Hayes fired a pistol at Mr. Braddell. The ball
entered his body below the chest. Moore attempted
to arrest the assassin, but he got away
through the back premises, and though the police
heard the shot or shots (for it is said by one account
that two were fired), and were on the spot in two
or three minutes, and though it was open day and
in the most public part of the town, he has not yet
been arrested, nor would the people give any assist-
ance to the officers of justice in tracing him. It is
however, scarcely possible that he can long evade
their pursuit. This is the most astounding of all
the recent murders in the South, for it shows that
persons who transgress the Riband code can have
no possible security against assassination.

In passing sentence on Walsh yesterday, at
Limerick, Mr. Justice Keogh delivered a long, elo-
quent, fervid, and almost impassi aned address,
which powerfully impressed every one in court but
the prisoner. Judges, in passing sentence in these
agrarian cases, are apt to apologise for harrowing
the feelings of the culprits and aggravating the hor-
ror of their position ; but the persons they address
seem so utterly insensible that one might as reason-
ably speak of wounding the feelings of the Gorilla.
In this case the Judge endeavoured to find some
flesh—some vulnerable spot, susceptible of Chris-
tian feeling, in the obdurate heart of the prisoner,
but in vain. His lordship reminded him that he
never had the least quarrel with the gentleman he
murdered, that he was young, and must have had
some natural feeling; but when he saw that young
beautiful, and noble lady beside her husband, im-
ploring that he might be spared, the prisoner did
not stay his murderous arm. In all her youth and
beauty she stood before him appealing, and he re-
lented not. He implored him not to seek to aggra-
vate the horrible atrocity of his offence by conceal-
ing the guilty companions that led him into his
awful position. Those men were fourfold murderers
—they were the murderers of Mr. Fitzgerald, of his
widow, of Beckham, and of Walsh—and they were
tenfold more guilty than their tools. He warned
the prisoner that if he did not disburden his heart
of guilty knowledge he would go down to eternal
darkness. He (the judge) cared not in what reli-
gion he was brought up, no rite or ceremony could
save him without repentance. Repenting and con-
fessing his guilt, the greatest criminal would find
atonement in the blood of One who suffered for
man upon the cross, for it is written—" There is
but one name under Heaven by which men may
be saved." The black cap was assumed amid
solemn silence, and the prisoner was sentenced
to be hanged on the Ist of September next.
The only remark the wretched young man
made was that he was " brought into it." He
betrayed no emotion or concern throughout the
whole of the proceedings, and his heart was proof
even against the earnest and impressive exhorta-
tions of the judge:
The Attorney-General said that in the case of
Denis Dillane a true bill had been found against
him for being accessory before the fact to the mur-
der of the late Mr. Francis Fitzgerald. Another
bill had been found against a man named Cooke
for harbouring James Walsh, who had been recently
sentenced to death. The Crown, in the interests
of justice, thought it necessary to apply for a post-
ponement of these cases until next assizes. Mr.
Exham said he appeared for Dillane, and stated
that he was much restricted from communication
with his friends and family since he had been ar-
rested. His lordship said he would not inter-
fere with the prison authorities, and as to enter-
taining an application for bail, it was entirely out
of the question. Mr. Casey said he appeared for
Cooke, who said he was charged with the minor
offence of harbouring Walsh. He respectfully
asked his lordship to admit him to bail, consider-
ing that he had been already some time in custody.
His lordship said that if the Crown objected he
would not accede to the application. The Attorney-
General said that the prisoner was charged with an
offence only second to a capita; crime. He could not
consent to the application for admiss ~en to bail.
Michael Renehan was then indicted RA' sending
a threatening letter to Mr. A. M. Gallwey, on the
2d of February last, threatening to murder him.
The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Ser-
geant Sullivan, and Mr. De Moleyns prosecuted,
and Mr. O'Grady, solicitor, defended the prisoner.
The Attorney-General stated the case, witnesses for
the prosecution were examined, and the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was
sentenced to six years' penal servitude.

An inquest was held yesterday on the body of
the unfortunate man who committed suicide by
throwing himself on the rails when the half-past
10 train was passing from Dublin to Kingstown on
Wednesday night. Mr. C. F. Green, a medical
student, deposed that his attention was attracted,
about 11 o'clock, to an obstruction on the railway.
He want to the spot with two porters and the Salt-
hill stationmaster. On approaching the body he
saw brains scattered on the rails. The body was
lying on the rail, the legs towards the sea, and the
arms stretched out. The head was nearly severed
from the body, and was parted from it by merely
pulling it by the hair. The right arm and the
fingers of the left hand were broken. There was
no coat on the body, which was still warm when
discovered. In the hat was found a slip of paper,
on which was written the words, " I slept on the
rocks for two nights." A letter to his brother was
also found, stating that he would be no more when
it was received.

James Fox, a dealer in coal, identified the body.
The deceased was at his house in York-street,
Kingstown, on the previous evening. He said he
was very tired, and asked leave to sit down. Wit-
ness gave him two cups of tea and some bread and
butter. He washed himself and asked for a razor,
which was not given. That was about 2 o'clock.
He appeared to witness to be quite deranged and
wild in his manner.

Maria King, of 82, Upper Dorset-street, Dublin,
deposed that deceased had lodged in her house for
seven months. His name was William Hartford.
He had been in good health, but his spirits were
much depressed since Thursday, when his brother
refused to pay him some money alleged to be due
to him. He left the house on Monday night at 9,
quarter to 9 o'clock without stating where he was
going. He was temperate in his habits, and very
well conducted. He owed witness £3 10s. for
lodging.

The verdict of the jury was that the deceased
com►nitted suicide while labouring under tempo-
rary insanity.

CRUSTAL PALACE.-ONE SHILLING DAY.-
FRIDAY.—Admissions on
payment, 10,967; ditto, by
neasou tickets,7B3. Total, 11,670.

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