The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-31 00:00:00

THE MURDER AT WATERFORD.

The alleged murder in Waterford is now confirmed. It
took place nearly a week ago, in the parish of Rath-
gonna* county of Waterford. The murdered man was
a respectable, peaceful fanner, named Patrick Power, who
held a farm of fifty acres at Craiga-villa, in the parish of
Rathgormack, which he came into possession of at his
father's death. There is nothing in the crime which can
in any way connect it with the long list of agrarian out-
rages. Power was on terms of friendship, and even
intimacy, with all his neighbours, and has neither
been evicted out of a holding nor taken the land of
others. He has held the one farm always, and has
never dabbled in any way with those of others. The
particulars of the outrage are these :—On the morning
of Tuesday last the deceased went into the town
of Carrick-on-Suir, about seven miles from his own house,
to dispose of three firkins of butter, which he sold, and
left the town about eight o'clock in the evening, with
some flour and oatmeal, in the cart he had brought
with him. He was then observed to have taken a little
drink. At ten o'clock the same night he called at
the public-house of a Mrs. Kennedy, at Rathgormack, in
company with a young man whom the Kennedys flo not
know. They got some drink, and took more away with
them in a porter bottle. The girl noticed deceased had
taken drink, and diluted the whisky she gave him
with water. The other man was sober. After leaving
this house nothing more was heard of him till the
following morning, when about seven o'clock he was
found by his son and daughter, who had gone out to
look for him, lying stone dead in a ditch on his hack, with
his head literally smashed to pieces, having fourteen
frightful wounds on it, so that the features were fearfully
mutilated. The place where the body was found was
only about fifty yards from some inhabited cabins, and
about 300 yards round a turn in the road from Kennedy's
house, and about a mile from his own dwelling. A large
pool of blood was under him, and the stones lying near all
besmeared with blood also. His horse was found straying
by his son on Wednesday morning, which led to their
going in search of him. Information was at once given
to the police. Detachments scoured the country
all day in search of the perpetrators of this
deed. An inquest was held on the remains at deceased's
house, by Mr. W. H. Gore, M.D., coroner, and a respect.
able jury, when a verdict of " Wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown" was returned. On Thursday
morning a party of constabulary succeeded in arresting the
man who was last seen in company with deceased. His
name is Wall, and he admits having been with deceased,
and tells a confused story of some recollection of lying
down with the deceased to sleep on the roadside. His
clothing was saturated with blood, and he was in bed in
his own home when arrested. He has been committed to
the county gaol on the suspicion of being connected
With the murder. It is surmised that the renewal
of some old faction feud gave rise to the commission of the
deed. The deceased's father, it is said, was the leader of
one of the factions in this part of the country called the
" Polleens" and the "Gown," but the deceased himself
was never mixed up with the faction feuds, but always
led a peaceab;e, quiet life. It is further reported that the
man arrested belonged to an opposite faction. This, of
cohrse, is only rumour. All the money deceased had with
him when leaving Carrick was found on his person when
dead. Mr. Loch, county inspector, and Mr. M`Carthy,
sub-inspector, are prosecuting the search for further infor-
mation with great activity.

SHOCKING MURDER AT GLASGOW.--A mother
was murdered by her daughter in Glasgow on Friday
night. The daughter, who is 37 years of age, had been
drinking for several weeks, and appear to have drank her-
self into delirium tremens. In this state she heard voices
in the clouds ordering her to murder her mother, and she
obeyed them. She half•choked the old woman, and then
beat her on the head with a smoothing-inn. Thereafter
the murderess went to her brother's and told what she had
done. _ _ _ _

A STRANGE EPISODE.—The Moniteur de 1' Armee
gives a strange episode in the destruction of the General
Abbatucci. There were some officers and their wives on
board, and when it became evident there was no hope, the
poor ladies and gentlemen took off all their jewels and
placed them, with their money, watches, chains, and
rings, on the deck. "We must not appear before God
with things like these." It would seem as if they believed
their physical presence would be carried beyond the
grave.

THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD AND CHURCH PRO-
PERM—At a meeting of the committee of the Archidia-
conal Conference the Bishop of Lichfield suggested that the
ruclidecanal conferences Should at an early period discuss
the desirability of appointing a Board of Trustees for the
entire Church in order that all ne•.v church property should
be vested in them. He stated that lie wa•s every day more
averse to placing Church property in the hands of the State,
because by a single clause in an Act of Parliament both old
and new may be swept away. The suggestion was received
without any comment whatever. —Shrewsbury Free Press.
PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS' SALARIES.—The Pres-
byterians of Ulster, or some of them, seem to starve their
ministers. At a meeting in Tyrone the other day, Mr.
Green, the Crown Solicitor for Antrim, gave some statistics
of ministerial stipends. There were, he sail, 270 congrega-
tions in connection with the General Assembly paying less
than £5O a year each to their ministers. In the Dun-
gannon Presbytery, for instance, there are six ministers
Nvho receive annually the following amounts in excess of
the Ilegium Donum :-222 9s. 5d., £35, £23 9s. lld.,
£37 3s. 7d., £34 18s., and .C 2 7s. 10d In the Donegal
Presbytery there are several ministers who receive about
£22 each, and other Presbyters appear to be nearly as
bad. Yet the Ulster Presbyterians include many rich
people, and ure generally the most thriving class in
Ireland.

NOVEL APPLICATION FOR DAIIAOES.—Not a
hundred miles from Llandyssil, Cardiganshire, a young
man, disappointed in a love affair, sent a hill containing the
following items to his " deceitful love" after she had been
wedded to another :—Ll—, Nor., 4, 1868.—Mrs.
late Miss —, to Mr. —. To 53 glasses of wine at dif-
ferent fairs and markets, 13s. 3d. ; to 1 pair of shoes, and
heeling another pair that I wore out in going and coming
fr„in 4s. 6d. ; for Dr.'s bill for curing a cough, caught
by waiting under your window on a wet night, Os. Od.;
to postage, &c., is. 11d.; to deceiving me and throwing
me out of a partner fur life, £lOO ; to enticing me to come
to 99 times, at 2s. 6cl. each time, £l2 ; to 12 days lost
in your company, £4 7s. 6d.—£123 14s. 9d.--Shreirsbury
Free Press.

A BTJUOLAB DnowzrEn.--Dr. Lankester, tne
coroner, has received information of the shocking death of
a man. It appears that about half-past two on Saturday
morning Police-constable Joseph Love saw a man getting
out of the first floor back window of the house No. 6,
Mocas•cottages, Camden-street, St. Pancras. Before
the constable could get to the house the man dropped
from the balcony into the street, and, seeing the con-
stable following him, he ran down the street, climbed
over a garden wall and got on the towing path of
the Regent's Canal. The constable followed, and the
deceased hid himself under the College-street Bridge, but
seeing the constable still following he ran along the
towing path. The constable got up to the deceased, and
said he would have to go to the police-station, but as he
was going to catch hold of him deceased suddenly stepped
back and jumped into the canal. The- constable
endeavoured to reach him, but Lefore he could do so the
deceased had got into the middle of the canal. In a
minute or so he called out, " I am going down ; save me !
save me ! " but before the constable could render him any
assistance he sank. Drags were immediately sent for;
but when the deceased was brought to the towing-path
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liLe was-found to he, extinct.