The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-16 00:00:00

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t From Elm ear* Advertiser of Sept. 13, )
MURDER. Of MR. FRANKS AND FAMILt

JAMES O'BRIEN' Esq. the Coroner, who went
to hold the Inquest on this unfortunate family,
impanelled the following Jury :--
Henry Green Barry, Rich:4d Oliver Aldworth, George Bond
bow, Thomas St. John Grant, Garrett Nagle, Henry Walker,
John Heard, William Quinn Montgomery, Roger Sheehy
Burke, Edmond N. Nordott, and Spotswood Boles.
The Inquest lasted from eleven o'clock on Wednesday, till
six O'clock in the evening. Five witnesses were examined, and
after a very solemn investigation a verdict of "• Wilful Murder
against persons unknown," was returned. The following is
the substance of what appeared in evidence:—

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Mr. Franks's house had been burned some time ago, by the
miscreants Who devastate this County; and was now undergoing
repair. Not a door had been yet put up ; the family principally
lived in one small room, not twelve &et square, the window sashes
of which werenot put up, and the wind was eitduded only by a
curtain. On the day of the murder, Mts. Franks and her son
had been at Kildorrere, and returned to a late dinner, which had
been scarcely over, when a noise was heard in the passage. Mr.
F. started up and said, here are Inv friends paying me another
visit," and beckoning to his wife and son to remain qniet, be went
outside the room door; here he was met by a fellotvof large sta-
ture, bet Ween whom and him a contest commenced. The man was
not armed, and theyfought with their handi4 Mi. F. retreating to
the parlour t on his entering which, the Insurgents rushed in and
soon filed the room. At this time a servant girl about 14 years of
age, of the nUine of Mary Alyer, a most intelligent creature,
slipped undee a table and concealing herself there, witnessed the
horrid scene which- followed 4 The leader of the Insurgents, a
ruffian dressed in woman's clothes, demanded of Mr. Franks
his anns. Mr. F. said he had none in the house, but that he
would, if they chose, accompany the party to the Rock-Mills,
and get them front. Mr. Smith who had. them. The leader
then said " Boys do your duty," and he himself upset a table I
on which a lighted candle was pleced,whieh being extinguished, 1
lie again had it lighted, at a fire in the ream. Alt. Franks, his
wife, and son, went on their knees to beg for mercy, assuring
the leader of the party that they had no anus, but here no
mercy was to be found. The savage, as if impatient of delay,
snatched a short gun front one of his followers, and within
three feet of the unhappy father, fired and lodged two bullets in
his heart. They then proceeded to dispatch the eon, and here
a dreadful scene ensued, the mother; only anxious to preserve
her son, and regardless of her own safety, clung to the wretched
young. man, as if to shield him front the vengeance of the
assassins. They repeatedly tried to force her front him, and
told her to return to another roette but she would not leave her
son; they then struck her with a heavy iron bar on the left
temple, and literally shattered the head to atoms; after which
they beat the son's braille out; and mutilated all the bodies of the
deceased. At the commencement of the horrid trork, another
female servant had been shut up by the ruffians in a small room ;
when they had murdered the young man they thought they
heard some groan or sound as if life was not entirely extinct,
and the candle having been extinguished, they took this ser-
vant flow her place of confinement, and one of them holding
her by the hand with one hand and her head down with the
other, made her proceed to a cupboard in the parlour,. and take
out a candle and light it, they then drove two heavy iron bars,
weighing 30 or 40 lbs. each, through the dead, bodies; and each
man, in succession, took a long three-pronged fork, and re-
peetedly drove it also into the hodies. It also appeared that
another ruffian, second in command, was dressed in female
apparel. Ile commanded . outside the house ; and, seeing a
woman appear at the door of an outhouse, with a child in
her arms, he called out-." to bed, to bed," and'placed a cen-
tinel on the door. When the shot was fired inside, this fellow
danced a regular hornpipe, as If delighting in the dreadful scene
going forward. The woman of tide house is named Olaveen,
and gave testimony as shovel. her son, immediately on the
patty marching off, mounted It horse and rode to. Kilelorrery,
whence a military party arrived in halt' an hour at the scene of
carnage. It would appear that the Insurgents separated and
proceeded in different directions, as blood was traced on the
roads to Doneraile and Kildorrery.
'This is pretty nearly the substance of the evidence, and it is
sufficient to thrill any soul With horror indescribable, and to
stamp it deeper stain upon the Irish character, already sane
grained with the bloqd of innumerable murders, and disgraced
with_peculiee, atrOcittee.
We are told that the tight, on entering Mr. Frank's house,
was truly shocking. Nothing had been Moved since the per-
petration of the murder ; the dead bodies lay as they hied been
left, in all the horror of gaping wounds, broken limbs, and
mangled bodies. It was an appalling sight, and calculated to
till the spectators with dismay. We are concerned to leurn that
no clue appears to lead to the discovery of the offenders.

REMAINS OF TILE EARL OF HOPETOUN*----Thtl

remains of the late Earl of Iforrroux, G.C.B. and Colonel
of the 42d Retment, are to be brotight from 'Paris to this
country. An Admiralty yacht has been ordered to sail forth-
with to the coast of France, to receive on board, with all due
honours, the remains of that gallant officer, in order to their
being conveyed to, and interred in, the family vault in Scot-
land. This tribute of respect is juatly due to the memory of
that brave and meritorious Officer. It may be truly said of
him, " that his memory will be recorded in the annals of his
country, will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed
in the reflection of a grateful posterity."
We have seen a letter, dated Vienne, to a
German Gentleman, at present residing in Dublin, which
mentions, on authority, that the Pmpezor of Austria has inti-
mated to the Governor of Bamberg ab assurance, that if the
Auxtrian Slates shall continue agitated by the controversy,
occaslonfd by the publication of Hohenlahe's miracles; he will
issue his directions for the removal of the Prince to oast: us'
THE FOILTRERS,ES. So that this infamous impostor is likely
soon to have an opportunity of excelling Baron Trenck in the.
display of his miraculous ingenuity in escapes from locks, bolts,
and bars I—(Dublin1—(Dublin Paper.
'BRIGHTON, SEPT. 14.—A distressing circumstance oc-
curred here this morning:—A young gentleman, aged Rboqt
21, Joseph William Tucker, had taken a machine nearly facing
the Cl fl-house of the Old Ship Tavern, as early as 7 o'clock,
for the purpose of bathing. While swimming, it is supposed that
the cramp seized hiM, and before assistance could be rendered,'
he had perished. In about twenty minutes the body was found,
and conveyed to the house of Mr. Pitt, Surgeon, at the
' bottom of Ship-street, where the means of restoring' sus-
pended animation were tried, in the presence of Sir William
Wizard, who happened to be near, but without effect. 'The
deceased had arrived here but the night before, on a visit to his
uncle, who, while bathing from another audible, witnessed the
melancholy catastrophe.
Yesterday. morning the neighbourhood of Owl-
sea experienced the effects of the dreadful and
anti terrific storm. A large. tree, situated near
the wooden bridge was torn up by the. root,
*and. split asunder, supposed by a thunder-bolt,
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but doing no further mischief. In the Five
Fields a poplar tree was bereft of the bark
in an instant, the fragments of which have
not been discovered since ; and iu Pimlico an•
other, shared a similar fate ; in several, of the
garden- grounds adjacent, numbers of fruit
trees, &c. were torn Up root and branch from
the earth, • and carried some .distance from
their former. station. In Surrey also, the shock
was felt, were several trees leading to Bat-
tersea-fields, and along the line to Wands-
worth, were either broken to pieces, or severely
damaged by the pelting torrents of rain. Some
tenements also had the things and roofs of the
buildings completely destroyed. During the
whole of this awful occurrence we have not heard
that any person was seriously injured on the oc-
casion.

Last night, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Stm-
tavis, a Gentleman residing in Dean-street,
Soho, was returning borne along Oxford-street
with his wife and daughter, a little girl about
ten..years old, in crossing the end of Poland-
street they were all three knocked down by the•
leaders of the Ludlow and Worcester Mail, and,
shocking to relate, the wheels passed over the
body of the child and the legs of the father.—
Mrs. S. escaped without injury. Mr. Sullivin
and his daughter were taken to the hospital,
where they now are in a very,dangerous Etate.