The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-04 00:00:00

• that he gave an alarm. When the police came the
man was gone, and yet they were afraid to go into
the smoking-room.
"Head-Constable Bible--That is a falsehood, and
you know it is. So far from that being true, we
found him sitting in the hall, and t e would tell us
nothing.
" Moore--I told a tenant named Cormac to go
for the police.
" The Head-Constable, addressing the Coroner,
said the police got no information of the murder
until 15 or 20 minutes after it occurred.
" Mr. Howley, R.M., said that before the Coroner
went he wished to say a few words. 112 could scarcely
express the feelings ke entertained about the fearful
occurrence. He was sure that had an immediate
alarm been given the assassin could not have
escaped. There were plenty of people in the street
who would have joined in pursuing him. He had
spoken to many persons that day, and all had ex-
pressed the deepest abhorrence of the crime and the
strongest desire for the apprehension of the mur-
derer. He had long lived in that town, and up
to the present it had been his boast that what-
ever crime had disgraced the county, the town of
Tipperary was altogether free from outrages of
the kind, but, unhappily, he could say so no j

Longer."

A rumour was prevalent in Nenagh that Hayes
had been arrested, but it is not confirmed, and
the police are still unsuccessful in their pursuit.
They could get no information about him from. the
people. The lord-lieutenant has offered a reward
of £lOO for such information as may lead to his
apprehension, and a like sum to any person who
will give information against those who harbour
him or aid him in any way.
In addressing the grand jury of the North Riding
of Tipperary at Nenagh yesterday, Baron Deasy
made the following reference to the murder of Mr.
Braddell

" The report of the county inspector agrees with
the state of the calendar, and describes the state of
the county as most satisfactory. I cannot terminate
my address here, as I would wish, for Iregret that
within the last few days a most appalling outrage
has occurred in the South Riding of this county,
which does not, of course, come within your juris-
diction, but which in the daring publicity which
attended its commission exceeds all that we have
heard or read of. In a room in a hotel, in one of
the most populous towns in this county, in the pre-
sence of several and in the immediate proximity of
others, a gentleman, in the discharge of his duties
as land agent, was openly and barbarously mur-
dered. I knew him for a long time, and, as far as
I could judge, he seemed a man of humane disposi-
tion, and just in his dealings with those he came in
contact with, mild and inoffensive in his manner,
and I should say, as far as I could judge, incapable
of doing any harsh or oppressive act. A short time
ago I saw him in that home which is now made
desolate, in the presence of that wife whom the
assassin's hand has made a bereaved and disconso-
late widow. It is not merely for the purpose of
expressing what we all feel in reference to this out-
rage that I refer to it on this occasion. We cannot
escape the conviction that a widespread sympathy
with crime pervades this and a neighbouring
county, which leads them to shield and protect the
perpetrators of agrarian crime, so as to render the
detection of crime difficult. There is, I fear, a wide-
spread disposition to shelter and screen the assassin
from justice. But it should be remembered that to
stand by and see a felony committed, without inter-
fering to prevent the commission of the felony, or
making any effort to seize the offender, is at com-
mon law a misdemeanour; while all who supply
food, shelter, help, or refuge to any one who has
committed a felony, or harbours such a person, or
aids in screening him from those seeking to discover
him, make themselves accessories after the fact, and
are liable, if convicted, to be sentenced to undergo
penal servitude for the whole term of their natural
lives. It is the duty, and I trust the firm resolve,
of those intrusted with the administration of justice
in this country, to endeavour to bring to justice
those who screen an assassin, and harbour him or
aid his escape. The manifestations, both before
and after the -late special commission, show how
widespread is the sympathy with crime in this
county."

MYSTERICUS AND ROMANTIC AFFAIR.

Considerable excitement has been caused in the
usually quiet village of Street Cobham, which is
about four miles from the Weybridge railway sta-
tion, in consequence of the following extraordinary
occurrence,by which the lives of two gentlemen have
been sacrificed under circumstances of a peculiarly
distressing character. It appears that about eight
o'clock on the evening of Friday last two men,
named Eyles and Organ, were passing through
a wood, when they were attracted by a strong smell
and on going to the spot from whence it proceeded
they discovered the bodies of two men who had ap-
parently been dead for several days, which presented
a most horrifying spectacle. Without remaining to
examine the bodies they at once hastened to the vil-
lage and gave information of the circumstance to
Police-constable Lovell, who, in company with Mr.
Webb, surgeon, repaired to the place and made a
minute examination of the bodies of the deceased
men. They were lying in a hollow space between
two or three small birch trees, about 80 or 90 yards
from the main road leading from Weybridge to
Cobham, and about half a mile from the village.
The spot was very secluded, and was probably se-
lected on that account for the tragical occurrence
which has excited so much sensation in this locality.
The head of one of the men was found reclining upon
the other's breast ; the face of the latter and a por-
tion of his body being covered with a rug. The up-
permost man had been shot through the lower jaw,
land the ball, after passing through the inner part
of the head, effected its exit upon the top of the
skull near the crown. This was apparently the
younger of the two, and at the time of his death he
was wearing a wig, although it is conjectured he
was only about 20 years of age. Upon removing the
rug from the other man the surgeon perceived a
bullet wound in the breast, which evidently caused
death almost instantaneously. He is supposed to
have been about 30 years of age, but the bodies were
in such a high state of putrefaction as to render any
other than a mere guess in that respect impossible.
A discharged pistol was found lying close to the
head of one of the meL, and he was lying upon an -
other pistol and a fish basket, as though he had
thrown down the deadly weapon and fallen upon it.
A bottle containing a small quantity of port wine,
of which the men had evidently partaken before
closing their final career, was picked up close where
the last-mentioned pistol was found. On searching
their pockets the constable found the sum of £1
Is. 61-d., a pocket-book containing several artificial
flies for fishing, some fish hooks, a spirit flask con -.
ttanitlg a small quantity of pale brandy and water, a
pui.."Ze.ontaining some small percussion caps, a
a pair ontwhich were two bullets, a small box key,
anavf,eez.ers three white pocket handker-
tnZlinii,s other aticles. The pockets of
contained a pair
,of socks, a
coconhlieleaforsf:
athieight_toiort
by thee'32fp, and a pair of kid gloves.
er:rtubnuattthie_e men..were lying
re of
oln'hethceagPrsowunordnbbesoiddiee:b
~:vadditi
None of the articles
found upon the afroraea
slightestet
oc ltubeo ts oe
lio w
e,as:vo; :id bbeeaerni nsgo
al ebaodv
et
_oint
eh:
tiiroed, .
a identification;
pocket-book
sdc rai sPirioon, which,
to admit any
half mile distant,
ma wnerhi.teeffnlicne
ing deciphered. The bodies wer.e removed to the
King's Where
, which, is understood, •
King's Arms Inn,
they await an inquest, , will
They presented a shook_
take place this morning• about a.
it
ing spectacle ; the face and throat of the younger
man being almost entirely consumed by maggots, 80
that that portion of his body bore the appearance of
a skeleton ; and the elder was equally sickening,
the flesh being almost charred by the sun, and the
features so far destroyed as to be quite unrecog-
nisable. Their gentlemanly attire and the complete
arrangement of their fishing tackle leave no doubt
that the deceased persons
were men of respectability
who had evidently left their homes to enjoy the
pleasures of a piscatorial excursion, for which the
rivet' Mole in the neighbourhood is well adapted.
Alshing-rod was found on Monday
last by a little
girl named Susan Lasham, about 80 or 100 yards