The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

REVOLTING CASE OF MURDER.

At the Kerry assizes, on Thursday, Michael and
Judith Donoghue were charged with having beaten
Denis Shea on the 13th of April, and with having tied
his hands behind his back, and, when in that state,
thrown him out from their dwelling-house at night,
which treatment caused his death. Mr. Plunket said
the charge in the indictment was one of murder, but the
Crown did not intend to ask for a verdict for more than
manslaughter. The Learned Counsel then went at length
into the details of the case, which, as subsequently sus-
tained in evidence, were of a very harrowing character.
The Tralee Chronicle thus states the substance of the
case—" It appeared in evidence that the people were
threatened by a printed or written notice, posted on the
door of Waterville Lodge, that any one harbouring a
pauper, giving a pauper a night's lodging, or allowing
any of that class under their roofs, would be made pay a
year's rent, and turned out of their holdings. It ap-
peared that this order applied especially to the deceased,
Denis Shea, a boy of twelve years of age, who appears
to have been a lad of bad character, but who one of the
witnesses swore had when treated kindly by himself not
acted improperly, and who, he added, would not bo what
he was if treated differently. It was' alleged that his
grandmother was turned out of her little holding for har-
bouring this boy, upon whom the brand of vagabond
was so prematurely stamped, until at length he was done
to death. The female prisoner was the aunt of the de-
ceased, and she and her husband were lodgers in the
house of a man named Case, a tenant on the Lansdowne
estate, who, as well as others, was cautioned against
harbouring this boy. The latter fact, coupled
with the precarious tenure which the prisoners
had of a roof over their heads, would appear to
have led to the boy's ejection from the house where ho
sought shelter at the hands of his uncle and aunt, and
the beating which he received, it was argued by Mr.
O'Llea, was given not merely to drive him away, and
thus save all parties from the penalty of harbouring him,
but also to punish him for a theft; the tying of hie
hands behind his back, the Learned Counsel argued, for
the purpose of preventing him from committing any of
those nightly depredations to which it was sworn he was
addicted."

The medical evidence went to show that the boy had
not had a sufficiency of solid food in his stomach for
twenty-four hours.
The Chief Baron, who shed tears in the course of his
address, said that, in point of law, no order, however
inhuman it might be, and however great a calamity it
might be to h%ve such a state of things in operation,
could justify the offence with which the prisoners were
charged, however it might be pleaded in mitigation of
punishment.

- The jury retired, and shortly after brought in a verdict
of Manslaughter.
Sentence—Two years' imprisonment to hard labour.

CASUALTIES ON TILE RIVER.—On Sunday evening,
about nine o'clock, one of the Grenadier Guards, named John
Patterson, in attempting to leap on board Citizen B steamer,
at Battersea-bridge-pier, fell into the water, life-buoys were
instantly thrown over, and one of the pier men leapt into
the water to rescue him ; he, however, did not rise till
nearly opposite Chelsea Church, a boat instantly rowed to
him, and succeeded in saving him as he was sinking for the
last time. He was taken to the Cricketers, where he reco-
vered. On Saturday, John Day, pierman at London-bridge-
wharf, fell overboard in Limehouserhole, from Waterman
steamer, No. 10, sunk, and was drowned; his body was not
recovered.

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