The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-04 00:00:00

DORIIII) MURDER.

llonores Corn-anon was indicted for the murder of W. Elig
gins, a wretched old man, who got his living us an itinerant
beggar, on the night of Easter Sunday, at Currafin, in the
county of Clare. The circumstances of this case evinced More
hardness of heart—more of a sanguinary and barbarous dispo.
sition,' than perhaps any case that ever disgraced the criminal
records of this country. It appeared that on Easter Sunday
the deceased was in the prisoner's cabin ; he went out begging,
and returned in the evening, but was not seen afterwards.
Some short time after, the trunk of the body was discovered
in a stream, about 4(1 perches from the prisoner's house, the
legs of the &ceased were found in the same place, and a stone
over them. The head was found sunk in the mire in a bag.—
' Suspicion immediately attached to the prisoner, and several
marks of blood were traced from the cabin in the direction of
the river. Some marks of blood were .also on the prisoner's
clothes, anti blood was on some stones anti. see iw in the pri-
soner's cabin. ller chest was searched, and the Policeman
taking out a quilt, it was remarked to be too heavy, an old Prize
grey coat was found tacked to it.—The prisoner mentioned to s,
Alagistrate that a certain individual (whom site nanwil) was the
person who had committed the murder. On being desired by
Counsel to state the name of the individual, she said that the
person wits named Patrick; she said that Patrick C—
the deceased a blow with a heavy stick on the side of the heal,
as he slept, and that she held the legs of the deceased whilst
Patrick was committing the murder; and when the lege
.were afterwards cut off, in order to account for having the blood
on her clothes, she described herself as standing in a particular
position during the commission of the horrid deed.
The Counsel for the prisoner would not call any witnesses for
the defence.

' The Learned JUDGE proceeded to charge the Jury. fie re-
capitulated the evidence at great length, and in the course of
his observations observed, that the prisoner had herself con.
fessed, not indeed that she actually gave the murderous blows,
but that she was present at the dreadful scene, and held the
legs of the deceased—so that if her own story was to be be-
lieved, she was clearly aiding and assisting in the murder.
The Jury, without leaving the box, returned a verdict of
Guilty.—A. deep and awful silence now prvaded the Court,
and when the Learned Judge proceeded to pass sentence,
the wretched prisoner, who until that m3mcnt preserved 4.
countenance by no means expreqive of those feelings
which a situation so full of peril was likely to produce, fell
into a convulsive fit, in which she remained for a consider.
able time. On her recovery, Mr. Justice JEBII proceeded to
address the prisoner nearly as :—" Prisoner, I shall
be very short in what I have to say on this dreadful OM.
sion, because you are not in a condition to receive any ob..
servations in a way that could be useful to you. You have
been found guilty of one of the moat barbarous and savage
murders that the annals of human crime can furnish an ex-
ample of. The temptation of a few ahillings, as it appears
to us, it all the temptation you have had to commit the
dreadful act. That any human being, and particularly
that a female, could, for a few miserable shillings, com-
mit so barbarous, so cruel an act, bespeaks a blackness
of heart, a bloody temper of mind, which• can only be ac-
counted for by supposing that you were, at that Moment.
under- the influence of Satan himself. The manner in which'
you afterwards mangled the corpse of the wretched victim of
your cruelty and avarice, exceeds in horror any thing 1 ever
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d past the shop of LADVOCAT, the bookseller, in the Pay-
sage ac Bois, Palsis Royal, has been crowded with visitors, o'
examine the beautiful bust of Lord BYRON., by FL AT TEAS,
which is finely executed."

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