The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-03 00:00:00

THE LAST IRISH AGRARIAN OUTRAGE.

The inquest on the body of Mr. James Hunter, the
Scotch farmer who was shot on Sunday night. a short dis-
tance from his own house in Newfield, has been held by
Mr. Bourke, coroner, in the yard adjoining the residence
of the deceased. The yard and adjoining fields were
crowded with the neighbolfring peasantry. The police
arrested the following on suspicion yesterday ;—Daniel
Kean, Rosskean ; John M`Governon, Patrick M`Gover-
non, and Laurence M`Governon, Knockranson ; Martin
Moran, John Moran, and John Moran, jun., Roskea ; and
John O'Neil, Newfield. (The latter is the person upon
whom the warrant to distrain was served, by order of the
sheriff, for 10s. fine and £4O costs, the amount granted
against the defendant at the last assizes in an action on
the title for the recovery of bog). The first witness called
was the servant, Theophilus Kean. He stated that
Mrs. Hunter and her son went to Newport Church on
Sunday, and remained in the latter town up to half-past
seven o'clock in the evening; that whtn they were a short
distance on the road a wheel came off, which was
subsequently put on by a blacksmith named Gibbons ;
that the second wheel also came off about, three miles
farther on. This was about ten o'clock. Mrs. Hunter
sent witness for the deceased, who accompanied him
with the tax car to the spot where he had left Mrs.
Hunter ; that Mr. and Mrs. Hunter got into the tax car
at Mrs. Noble's, Crossasolla ; that they rode in front,
and witness and Mr. Hunter rode behind ; that when
they were about to turn off the main road into the narrow
road leading to Mr. Hunter's house a single shot was
fired ; that the latter cried out, and witness shouted and
jumped off the car; that he heard the noise of a person
running through potato stalks, but saw no one ; that he
saw lighted paper in the road after the shot was fired,
and that the deceased was dead before he reached his own
house. Simon Hunter, son of the deceased, about 13
years of age, in addition to the evidence of the previous
witness, stated that he saw two or three boys in the road
when he was returning, and that his father was not in
the habit of carrying arms. A rusty revolver was pro-
duced, which witness identified as belonging to his father,
but which evidently had not been used for a length of
time. The bullet with which the deceased was shot would
not fit the chambers. Mr. Carr deposed that he made a
careful examination of the spot where the deceased was
shot ; that he observed marks apparently made by a
person descending into the field. It was evident he
had lain against the ditch for some time.. In the
field in the rear of the spot where the person had
been lying against the ditch witness observed footmarks
which led in the direction of the mountains beyond the
Tyranagh river ; the man had evidently been run-
ning fast, from the distance between the foot-
marks. Sir George O'Donel said he had accompanied
the witness, and could corroborate his statement. Mr.
Davies said he made a post-mortem examination of the
body ; found two gunshot wounds in the right side, and
one ball in each cavity, one of which passed through the
chest and the other the left shoulder ; both passed through
the lungs, one rupturing a large bloodvessel near the
heart. This was the cause of death, which must have been
instantaneous. After three minutes' deliberation, the
jury found that the deceased came to his death by being
wilfully murdered by some person or persons unknown
death being caused by a gunshot wound. The prisoners
were remanded. The remains of the deceased were
interred immediately afterwards in the Newport Presby-
terian burying-ground, and were followed to the grave by
a long line of cars and other vehicles.

A facetious tradesman in Worcester, after
having repeatedly announced that he was selling off, has
now placarded his house with bills stating that he is
selling on
THROWING STONES. -At Clerkenwell Police-
court, the youth Lyons, who had been charged with man-
slaughter by throwing stones, was convicted of the minor
offence of assault, and sentenced to two months' imprison-
ment.

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR DRESDEN.—
The number of victims of the explosion of fire-damp in
the basin of Plauen, near Dresden, is now officially known
to amount to 276. All the corpses have been recovered
but two. 206 widows with 639 children are left to deplore
this terrible calamity.

A trades' unionist named Norton was committed
for triel by the Manchester magistrates for having stabbed
a non-unionist stonemason named Walsh in the left temple.
The crimo was committed in a beerhouse, and was occa-
sioned by the non-unionist asserting, in answer to offensive
language masle use of by the unionist, that he was as good as
his assailant.

A VERY YOUNG SUICIDE. —An inquest was held
on Thursday, at Brighton, on the body of Isaac Oldacre,
aged 17, son of a station-master. Deceased was a
clerk at Ford Station, but disliked his occupation and
had threatened to enlist. At length he wrote
to his father stating that he was tired of his
life, and was seen to get upon the line and
deliberately lay himself on the rails in front of
an approaching train, which went over his
body. A verdict of "Temporary Insanity" was
returned.

NOVEL SPORT.— A correspondent of the Inver-
ness Courier, writing from Glencoe, mentions that the
tenant of the shootings and fishings at Invercoe, Mr. T.
Faed, It. A., finding it impossible to supply his table with
fish by means of the rod, has taken to the unusual but
exciting method of getting them by the gun. The river
Cona is extremely small and clear, and there are lots of
salmon and grilse in the pools, brit they will not look at
the fly. On Saturday evening Mr. Faed shot a salmon of
Sib. weight with a pea gun when it was whirling porpoise
like in the water, either In play qatter !eq.) TWO
were Allot with ti lawiingztaletie►