The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-17 00:00:00

THE MURDER AT j3ALLYNEETY.

D,nuie, Jr.A 15.—Yesterday (Tuesday) James Bennett,
Esq., held an inquest en the body of Laurence Leahy, at
Ballyneety. A respectable jury was empannelled. Croker
Barrington, and William a Barrington, Eaqs., sons of Sir
M. Barrington, Leahy's landlord, attended the inquiry. From
the statement of the wife of deceased, it appeared that on
Sunday evening an armed party knocked at the door,
between live and six o'clock, and demanded admittance,
which was granted. On entering the kitchen where
Leahy was sitting with his family, four men armed
attacked him ; yet Leahy knocked down the four, one
after the other. At this time the attention of Mrs. Leahy
was attracted by another of the party, who was running
towards an adjoining room, and on her return to
the kitchen, she found the party with whom her husband
was engaged, beating him heavily on the head. Leahy
soon fell on his back, and the wife threw herself over his
body to protect him. They next struck him violently on the
legs with a gun, and fired a shot, which penetrated his thigh.
They struck Leaky's wife on the head several violent blows
with a blunderbuss. The man whom Mrs. Leahy followed
from the apartment in which she was at the time the party
first entered, ran into the room after her daughter, and struck
her several blows, compelling her to swear that she would
not divulge who they were. On their first entrance to
Leahy's dwelling, the assailants called out, " heads down,"
and as they passed on to where Leahy was, they struck his
servant-man on the head, who, from the effect of the injuries
received, now lies dangerously ill in the County Infirmary.
According to the testimony of Doctors Wilkinson and Parke,
it appeared that Leahy's right leg was dreadfully fractured,
as well by the gun-shot wound as by the blows received.
The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder.
An awful murder was perpetrated on Monday last, at
Anglesborough, in this county, six miles from Mitchelstown,
and connected with the letting of land, when a respectable
farmer named Lynch was shot dead on the public road, and
within twenty yards of his dwelling, at mid-day. Mr.
Knaresborough, S.M., Major Hill, 54th, Dr. Phelan, and the
police, were in a few hours on the spot, when the corpse of
the murdered man presented an awful appearance, having
four wounds on the body. The shots were heard by his
family and neighbours, and the assassins were seen running
off. The police of the district cautioned him about his farm,
as he was a marked man.
At Rishyquirk, within a few miles of this city, the houses
of the following farmers, all tenants of the Earl of Clare, in
that district, were attacked by armed men on Friday night,
and who took a gun each from William Donnelly, Thomas
Collopy, Thomas Collopy (William), Patrick Lynch, and
John Finucsmo, The same marauders attacked the houses
of John laaopy, Thomas Fitzgerald, and Matthew Bourke,
also tenants of Lord Clare, but did not succeed in their
search for arms.
Sunday evening, at an early hour, a Rock notice was
affixed to Peatield House, near this city, •the residence of Mr.
William Roche, threatening him with Captain Rock's ven-
geance, unless he remits the rent of potato ground which he
had set at 30s. an acre under the general rate, and subse-
quently reduced 40s. the acre; but this was not sufficient.
Mr. Roche gives liberal and constant employment in the
neighbourhood at Is. a day to farm labourers, besides food,
yet such is his reward.
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