The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

CLONMEL ASSIZES, NlAacu 31.
Patrick Lacy and John Walsh were indicted for
having, on the Ist October, 1827, murdered Dan.
Mara, Patrick Lacy shooting him in the left side of
the body, and John Walsh for aiding and assisting
in the murder.

[The murder appeared, from the statement of the
Solicitor-General, to have been conceived with much
skill and forethought. It proceeded from a malig-
nant impulse of revenge ; Mara (the unfortunate
victim) being the brother of an individual who had
some time before given evidence against a man who
was executed for the murder of Mr. Chadwick.]
The jut), found the prisoners Guilty. They
were ordered for execution on Thursday..
One of the prisoners was an extensive dairyman.
He gave 30 guineas to his attorney, and 10 guineas
to each of his Counsel.

BREMEN., MARCH 16.—For the last fortnight
our city has been in the greatest agitation, in consequence of
the arrest of a woman accused of poisoning. She is the wife of
a saddler, named MILTENBERC, and the daughter of a tailor
named FIMIL —After the death of her first husband (the sad-
dler), she married a merchant's traveller, named GOTTFIELD.
Her free way of life, and the many losses sustained by death,
caused her to be sometimes talked of. Since her arrest sire is
said to have already confessed unheard-of crimes. Men
who seemed happy and full of health, chiefly tempted her
to commit murder. As nothing official has been pub-
lished respecting this extraordinary case, it is impossible
accurately to detail the series of crimes of which she has
been guilty; hut there is no doubt that she equals and per-
haps exceeds the infamous Marchioness de Dams VILLIERS, as
persons daily come forward whose debilitated health is said
to be her work. There is no trace whatever of mania,
and as little of remorse. Au immoral way of life and
covetousness are assigned as the chief reason of her
crimes : superstition seems also to have affected her mind.
Thus it is said that she considered the wearing of
the clothes of the murdered as a talisman against the dis-
covery of her enormities, and ascribed to them the power
of making her invisible, and even of enabling her to fly.
She is about 50 years of age, and has still traces of beauty
which she endeavours to improve by paint; she has hand-
some but rather wild eyes, and mild agreeable manners.
Her sitting-room was well and tastefully furnished ; over
her mahogany sofa hung the heads of our Saviour and St.
John, and the ten Commandments ; her chief reading was
books of devotion. A wheelwright whose house she last
kept was the first who discovered her enormities; he has
been poisoned by her, and is in a languishing state ; a piece
of bacon strewed with arsenic is the corpus delicti.
EXTRAORDINARY CIIA ROE OF BASTARDY.

—Within the last fortnight an order of affiliation has been
obtained, by the parish officers of St. George, Hanover-
square, against the Duke of DORSET, to compel his Grace
to give security to the parish for the maintenance of a child
which a female had sworn he was the father of. The
facts of the case are these :—The mother of the child, who
appeared to have been a good-looking female, but reduced to
extreme poverty, was a few years ago residing at the west
end of the town, when she accidentally met with a gentle-
man who called himself "Ali.. Samn." The gentleman
expressed much regard for her, and offered to allow ker a
conditional maintenance, and she accepted his terms. She
became pregnant after their intercourse had been carried
on for some time, and she communicated the fact to " Mr.
SwiTu," who left a um of money, and, without men-
tioning his intention to discontinue his visits, never
afterwards called upon her. When she bad given birth
to the child in question, she was reduced almost to a' state
of starvation, and with the child in her arms she was com-
pelled to go about the streets to solicit alms as a means o(
existence. A short time ago she was walking near Port-
land-place, and she caught a view of he; quondam friend
" Mr. Swill." She followed him, unobserved, and saw

him go into the mansion of his Grace the Duke of PORT-
LAND. She knocked at the door soon afterwards, and
asked what the name of the gentleman who had entered
the house was, as she had previously suspected that SMITH
was 'not his real name. The servant replied, '" that gen-
tleman the Duke of DORSET." Upon this she informed
the parish officers that she had discovered the father of the
child, and his Grace was summoned to show cause why
he should not maintain it. Upon the vcoman's examina-
tiop, she mentioned places, slates, aml cireunistapces, un-
der which "11jr. Sdlyru." (whom she swore was the Duke),
had met her ; and although an attempt was made to in-
duce her to fix upon a date when it might have been
proved his Grace was not in London, it did nut succeed,
and her evidence was not impeached, except by the strong
counter-declarations of hie Grace. The order, however,
having been made upon the Noble Duke, his Grace paid
1201. to the parish officers as a campromi?e, and so the
affair terminated.