The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

MISSION.

The Grand Jury having come into court,
Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart, M.P. (foreman), asked
if there was any more business to be sent before
them ?

The Clerk of the Crown having replied in the
negative,
The Attorney-General requested that his lordship
would not discharge the jury at present, as the go-
vernment proposed adjourning the commission.
The CHIRP Jusricn—Gentlemen, I was aware of
what you have heard from the Attorney-General, and
regret it is not in my power to discharge you alto-
gether. lam enabled, however, to let you separate
for the present, and you shall have notice when your
services aro again required.
The jury then retired.
[The adjournment, it is supposed, will be until
Tuesday, February 8, although it is not considered
likely that any of the judges will then sit.)
CONSPIRACY TO MURDRll.—Michael M'Mahon, an
ill-looking man, about 30 years of age, was indicted
for having conspired with others, at Claremont, in this
county, on the 3d of Dec., 1847, to kill and murder
Matthew Bolland, and also for soliciting one John
Perry to shoot said Bolland.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated the case very
shortly. He said it not only depended on the
testimony of an informer, but also of men who could
not be induced to engage in crime. It would appear
that a number of persons formed a plan to murder
Mr. Bolland, and that the prisoner went about openly
to collect subscriptions for the payment of the mur-
derer, and proposed to different persons to commit the
crime. He would prove these facts to their satisfac-
tion, so that they could not have a doubt as to the pri-
soner's guilt.
John Perry examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL
—I know the prisoner for a long time very well ; I
know Mr. Matthew Bolland; the prisoner came to
me and offered me 61. to shoot him ; Mr. Bolland
lived nearer to the prisoner than to me ; I told him I
would do it for the money ; this communication took
place outside ; the prisoner asked me the time, and I
named the Thursday evening afterwards to do it ; I
then saw him at a house we appointed to meet at ; I
tipped at the door, and he came out ; I asked him for
the money ; he replied, " It is in sure hands as soon
as you shoot him"—that is as soon as I shot Mr.
Bolland ; M'Mahon arranged between us that I was
to meet him between where he lodged and the mill ;
I had a pistol of my own, but it was of no use; I
would not have shot Mr. Bolland for the money, or
any money; on the next Monday I went towards his
place to tell him about this business, but he was not
at home, he was in Limerick; I then turned back,
and told constable Hogan that Mr. Bolland was to be
shot; I met him on the road about a mile from
Broadfort ; Hogan came to my place, after that I
made an information.

Cross-examined by Mr. O'HE♦—Upon my oath I
don't know that there is a greater villain in the
county Clare than myself.—(Laughter.) I can't
know why the prisoner thought I would shoot a man.
I went for the 51., but did not get it. I had the
pistol with me the day I went for the money. It was
no good, and I had but the one.
Counsel here read the witness's informations in
which he swore he had two pistols, and did not shoot
Mr. Bolland because he did not get the 51.
To Mr. O'HBA—I had two, but they were of no
use.—(Laughter.)
To the Jury—l got the pistols from a man who
went to America. I have not got them now. I
threw them into the lake.—(Laughter.)
John Morony, examined by Mr. BENNETT —I know
the prisoner since he was a child, and I also know
Mr. Bolland. He was a farmer, and had a good deal
of land. I had a son-in-lawl named Michael Hines.
He was put out about three years ago of some land
Mr. Bolland now has. The prisoner has a bit of
land. In August last I saw him mowing in a field,
and he said I was a weak man to let another man
hold the farm that my son-in-law had. That was the
farm Hines had and which !Bolland got. I said I
lost enough by it. I got half of it at one time from
Hines, and lost considerably by it. I said, " I wish
there was a lake in place of it ; the more seldom I see
it the better I like it." (The witness here repeated
his evidence in Irish, as he stated that his conversa-
tion with the prisoner was in that language, and one
of the jurors stated that he repeated what he had
previously mentioned exactly.)
To Mr. O'llEl,-1 was ejected from this land. I
don't know if the prisoner was looking for this land.
I know a man named Harkins ; he never wrote notices
for me.

(The case for the prosecution has not yet closed.)