The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-21 00:00:00

BRUTAL MURDER IN IRELAND.

A most premeditated and barbarous murder was
committed about eleven o'clock in the morning
of Thursday, the 10th instant, in the townland of
Maghiralongford, county of Tyrone, seven miles from
Dungannon.
The following are the correct particulars :—ln the
month of November last a man named James Tormar
was dispossessed of his land, being unable to pay the
arrears of rent due on it ; another person, named
Bernard O'Neill, paid the amount, and was regularly
put in possession. Tormar several times told O'Neill
that he would shoot him, or the first person he should
employ to cultivate the farm. O'Neill, however, on
the day before mentioned, went on the land with his
horse and plough, together with a man named Hugh
Neill, whom he had hired for the occasion. On Tor..
mar observing them coming towards the field, he pro..
ceeded to a house two fields off, from which he took a
gun and came back to the field. O'Neill and his man
were about to enter, they were then standing on the
road, when O'Neill, said he would plough the land_
Tormar advanced, and in the most deliberate manner
took regular aim at him and missed fire. At this mo-
ment Neill advanced, whom he covered in like manner,
and shot him through the heart, not being more than
eight paces from him when Neill fell. O'Neill seized
Tormar, and although the deceased was weltering in
his blood, there were four persons barbarous enough to
rescue the murderer and let him off!

Mr. Duff, chief constable of police, having received
intimation of the murder from Mr. Caulfield, a magis-
trate, he turned out a sergeant and five cavalry and
proceeded to the spot, where, on his arrival, instead ol'
meeting with any assistance, by information or other-
wise, from the persons assembled, one and all of them
entered into a justification on Tormar's behalf.

The chief constable thinking it likely the murderer
would shelter himself in a large and thick wood called
Killacolpy, about three miles further on, made for it,
and, having dismounted some of his men, in a few
minutes apprehended the murderer, concealed in a
large thicket.
_

Crowds of persons assembled and followed, all of
whom expressed much more sympathy for the mur-
derer than for the deceased, his widow, and five (now)
helpless children ; and, on their being reasoned with
on their want of feeling, several of the crowd said,
" Tormar did quite right to shoot him ; no man here
would not do the same to any man who would take
land over our heads."

A woman named Mary Devlin, one of those who
rescued Tormar in the first instance, was afterward 9.
apprehended.
The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of "
Murder" against Tormar, who, with Mary Devlin, is
now in Dungannon-gaol.

It appears from the property tax returns, that
the agricultural classes contribute to the state more
than three times as much as the manufacturing and
commercial classes of every description united.
On Thursday night the valuable and exten-
sive woollen manufactory of Mr. Shofield, at Hay-
brook, near Rochdale, was totally destroyed by fire.
It is not known how the fire originated, nor is the
damage yet ascertained ; it must, however, be to a.
very serious amount.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE BY HANGING.—
On Monday evening
stretched
rdoenetst threelawipereheteeoadndmetphsoaeifl and four
man named John Harrington, residing on the Poula-
duff road, in the vicinity of this city, who was employed
by the wide street commissioners to water the streets,
sent his wife to purchase some bran for his horse.
On the woman's taking her departure, the unfortu-
nate man seized a piece of thin. rope, with which lie
repaired to a loft over the kitphen,. where he had
departed.
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the unconscious creature complied with, he suspended
sslitetpint,gahnedfocraellitnhge out
fire totoohnaenodf hhilms c;ipiladreehlr, who
whwieash
ddnelie)ifdeeed the horse, but not being at-
himself to a cross beam, kicked away the support from
under his feet, and was shortly after a corpse ! The
ill-fated wife returned in about an hour, and coneeiv-
vtttillenoieltngelahgdlithfernhadbtaoastttuplooirdalasserihrskicehs‘oeval:d-rathenroay that left her a widow, and her three
children orphans.. She immediately alarmed her
two men ran in and cut the rope, but the
inquest was held yesterday on the body, and a
verdict of " Temporary Insanity" returned. The
wretched man made a similar attempt twice before on
great pre-
his life, in one of which he had nearly succeeded, as
andsoe
of m i
n bdy, a
andyoung
no woman,sinall stock
was found suspended and struggling between life
toof with
resolution, ran
for a knife and cut the rope. At the time he seemed
quite contrite, and promised never to make another
attempt, but without the resolution of resisting the
s who
I machinations of the evil one.—Cork Herald,