Star.
London, England, 1831-06-03 00:00:00

FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.

CASTLIPOLLARI) MASSACRE.--On lids CON we wish to
abstain from all exasperation of language. ft Is in the hands
of justice, and we are confident that the affair will be pro.
perly, impartially, but sternly conducted. 1k cannot have
a heart in his brew t who tan read, unincved, the evidence
at the coroner's inquest. Alen and women were shot while
standing peaceably and talking to one another. An unfur.
tunate cripple, who could not moor out of the line of firing,
was killed, and a policeinan aimed twice at Dermody " who
was crying and clapping his hands over a corpse in the street."
Patrick Dignum was shut while srandin with his
hand in lis breeches :tocket. Sleein was killed at
.he door of a tent. M try Tiernan was shot,
while conversing with another woman, by Todd ill.
policeman, who knelt down and took dclikrate aim
at her. Patrick bl'Con»ick was shot while standing
inoffensively whh live or six pigeons, some of whom
were children ; and not one was shot while rioting, or in
any manner violating the peace. The conduct of Blalc:, the
chief constable, what shall we say, of it ? It is sworn he
gave orders not to spare man, woman, or child. In direct
contradiction of bis assurances to Mr. Deese lie ordered
nut the police. commanded them to fire, and when Mr.
O'Neill, of Ailifield, besought him for GOD'd sake to
cease the firing, he gave order; to fire another round. The
orders were obeyed. Mr. O'Neill remonstrated with the
police, Blake again ordered another round to be fired, and
the orders were obeyed. Mr. O'Neill continuing to re-
monstrate with him, he turned on Mr. O'Neill, asked what
was his name, or why did he interfere, that "he hail bet.
ter withdraw, or perhaps he might meet the same fate as
:he rest."

There never was a case, to the facts of which there was
leas controversy. A riot occurred in Cie early part of the day,
and the police made a prisoner, who was rescued by the
crowd. At this time Mr. Blake told dlr. Deese (a niagis-
trate) there was near being a bad job, he had been struck with
a stone; and had the police seen it, they would unilnuhttelly
have fired on the people; that they were much infiniated ;
that they had very strong party feelings, and that when igno-
rant men of that clan had arms in their hands, they did not
care whom they would shoot; Mr. Deese then said lie hoped
it would not be necessary to call them out, and remarked the
town was very thin ; Blake said it was so, but that there
were a great many people drinking in public housts,but that
h was better not to meddle with them, end that if they quar-
relled amongst themselves they might fight it out, as he said
be would not interfere without orders from a magistrate.
The police accordingly retired to the barracks ; about two
boors afterward a riot occurred between the country people;
it had ceased, but a crowd remained, when the police inter.
feeesLlt is proved that one of them knocked down a man with,
the butt-end of his gun—nevertheless they dispersed the
crowd, and then wheeled off: At this moment Berne boys
and girls threw a few stones (Mr. Basile, the Chief Justices
son, thinks three at the utmost), no one was struck—several
witnesses, at least, did no: see It—the police, 24 in number,
instantly wheeled round, threw themselves into ,Ix patties,
and fired in all directions on the crowd.—and continued to
fire for eight or ten minutes on them, while running away
and reeking shelter No resistance wa: made—not a stone
was thrown after the first shot, yet they continued the
sleughter—no distinction, no effott seems to have been made
cam WWI those who bad been engaged in the riot, if blood
true shed that was enough. it was indifferent who wire
moseired, provided a good number was murdered. As 111.1 e
aM. dims ONO of strong patty feeling did not care whom
they abet The riot was a mere pretext. It is proved that
owed do peke ( Main) the next day declared, "'That the
• deserved what they had got. That they had earned
people deserved
ago. That it was due to them since that day seven
years, and that if they did not take care they would get more
of it !" Such arc the facts. On the result of this cue de-
pends the peace of the country. We beg the people to await
the event with patient confidence. The government. u e arc
convinced, will act with that energy and impartiality which
the necessity of the circumstance prescribes. The tending
down the Solicitor-General, a man of honour and humanity,

is a strong proof of its anxiety to render justice.
The special reporter of this public-spirited jour-
nal, writes on this infernal tragedy as follows :
To enable you more perfectly to conceive the sanguinary
and determined ferocity of this bloody tragedy, I will endea-
vour to give you sonic idea of the state of this town. The
principal part of it is built in the form of a square, in
the centre of which is the market-house, an that the po-
lice standing near the market.house, had the entire
town under the range of their musketry. One par-
ticular feature in this atrocity, which dyes it with a deeper
character of blood, is, that the police, when they commenced
Gring, formed into sections, and fired in the way that in mi.
litary parlance is termed street tiring. I v ent carefully
through the entire scene, acompanied by a rentkman who
witnessed the tragedy from its commencement, and who
minted out to me the different situations in which the peoph:
and police stood. 1 counted the number of gunshot bullet
marks upon the walls, and I counted 53 finite distinct. It
is also worthy of remark, that the greater number of these
marks are situated low down, and with the exception of two
not as high as a human body, and that even dreadful as
the serve has been, it is almost astonishing that the havoc
has not been greater. The situation of the hell maths shows
the intent with which every single shot was tired. In order
to be precise I tend you • list of the number of marks of
bullets as I counted them.

On Mr. Egan's house one; on Mr. Higgin's one ; on
Mr. APCarthy's house six, besldcs one which perforated his
window; Mr. Fagan's stable ooc ; Mr. Gladsome'
two; Mr. Mulligan 's house four; Mr. James Ken.
nedy's house was entered by a ball; Mr. MsCortniek's house
Omar, one of which west within a few inches of entering his
'does ; three balls entered the gate of Mr. bi,Genniek where
there were a great number of persons seeking protection :
one hall struck the house of Dr. Malloy, one entered the
sloop window of Mr. Andrew Fagan, and three struck the
outside of his house ; there are five ball-marks on the house
of Mr. kl,Guinness, and one entt.ved Mr. Patrick Fagan's
parlour' where his family usually sit, and one or two out-
side of his house ; two more marks were on the house of
Mr. J. illahon, and three on Mr. Riggs's, four on the house
or Mr. Edward Cullen, and six on that of Mr. Crnsbie, and
one which perforated the lower paw of the sash of his wirer
window, one lodged inside ; one ball entered the booth of an
itinerant showman, passed through and lodged in the upper
pan of a shop window opposite.
[The list of the persons killed by tho police, we
inserted in the STA R of yesterday ; with some of
the further proceedings ; but we conceive it ne-
cessary, in illustration of this truly horrible affair,
_
!--e and verdict.]

to append the following examinations and
William Cunningham sworn—Lives in Castlepollard • Is
a butcher; was between lie and six o'clock on the evening
of Monday last, the fair.day. standing at the aid of the
ruarket.house ; saw the deceased, Pat Dignsm, receive a
ball in the eye, as he was standing beside him; deceased had
his hand in his right breeches pocket ; thinks it was In his
right eye be received the ball ; never saw the deceased be-
fore ; saw the policeman tire the shot that killed deceased ;
could identify him.
Colonel Osborne said that he was of opinion that the po-
lice should not be dealt with as civilians, and that they dif
fered from others.
The COMM' said, be did not see bow any dialwasoecould
exist with regard to the means bf accomplishing the aids

of Janke, no matter whether the accused wu a peer or a
peasant.
/3:embolism resumed—Witness identifies constable Janet
Milla as the person who shot deceased ; at the time the
deceased was shot all was quiet, there was no riot in the fsir
rd
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person being killed before him; saw a riot amongo the
'ovate, people about an hour before ; witness Lis about
three perches from deceased when he was killed ; cannot tell
no
other policemen with Mills when he fired the shot ; three
etentrirferent direction from where deceased was ;
h ills
stopped and aimed • he thinks at Cottony, a man who had
a tent in the yak, ;tad was beside the deceased ; cannot
swear it was at the deceased be fired ; swears most positively
there was no riot in the fair for an hour previous to the time
the first shots were fired.
Catharine Conolly—Was in Castlepollard, and had a
tent in the fair on klonday ; late In the evening Raw a maa
killed at the door of her taut; be was killed by a ball which
tore the caul of (shaves cap before it struck the dee.ated;
the brains of the ecceased were scattered on somc bread the
was selling, and on the table; does not know the name of
the deceased, but heard it was Digitalis ; the &ceased stun.
bled twice after he L:ceived the bail, and fell at the door of
het tent ; witness saw DO slot then, imor nny part of thet day;
every thing was peaceable at the time ; the people Ivry all
running ot the time of chic tiring ; saw the constable fire the
shot that killed the man; does not know Lis name, tut
could identify like ; witness identifies the constable
The second person killed was John Skein.
Mr. Alatthew Croebie, of Catul:pmmllaral, dyer—On the fair
day, about six o'clock in the evenimm?, he sr-, sanding oppu.
site his own door. Paw Skein I'. tlf opposite witness's gate.
way, at the edge of the road adjoining witness's house. Did
not see the person that fired at Simla. After he fell, a ban
entered witness's parlour whidor where himself and his fa.
mily nsoally sit. The marks of five other balls are on the
exterior of his house, all fired by the police; saw a police.
man present his piece and shoot a awn, who fell at the
door of a tent. Saw the man dead after Leeching a ball
in his eye. Saw Slevin niter his dcnth. Thinks that he
received the ball about his face. Sur no rioting or stones
thrown at the police at the time Sievln r.-as shot ; saw stones
thrown at the police before that; thinks there were very few
thrown, and will swear, to the best of his opinion, that none
of them struck the police ; time atones were thrown some mi-
nutes before the shots were fired ; the people were dispersing
in great numbers b.fore the shots were fired, and the streets
were then thin; dues not dunk soy of the stones thrown
could reach tit_ police, as they were thirty yards from those
who throw the IttirlCA ; saw no person fall but Slcvin and the
man set thud door of the tent.

About twenty-five other witnesses were examined
to the same effect.

The examination of witnesses here closed, and the corn.
ncr I reseeded to chaige the jury. Ile said there could be nu
controversy as to tie facts; but the question they should de.
telmine was, whether there was any thing to justify the
police, or whether any sufficient violence was offered to make
them think it n.cesc;:ry to use their arms for the protection
of their own lives.— Wherever a riot *emitted, it was the
duty of the police to go and suppress it; and if In doing so
they west put in dati,acr of their liee4, it was not necessary
that any riot act should be read. Tli,y hail a right to use
their arms in their us a defame if tb.y thought their lives
were in danger, and the question fur the jury to dotenuine
by their verdict v °tad be, wits there any violence offered to
the police on that o.ly that would justify the police in having
resort to their ariii. to defend dicutstiv,4. The jury rented
and after three hoots.' delibetrtion, rautned the following—.
VAIDIST.—Thai the e'er-armed Patrick agmun died by a
gun-shot s:ound inflicted by Sarjeaft Mill,; that John Nevin
and Mary Kiernan came by their death• in the same way by
Nliotx Bred by Scijeant Mars and John Todd ; and that the
other persons came by their deaths in the Mille way by gun.
shot wounds, inflicted by a party of police, eighteen of whom
have been klentilied, with chief.constable Blake as their
bead, aiding and abetting.
Immediately after the verdict the Coroner issued his war.
rant of committal far die eighteen police, including Blake,
who have already been identified. Colonel Osboine has
rode into Mullingar Air a military force to escort the pri.
stoners, and they will to-night be lodged in tha gaol of Mul.
linger, to abide their trials at the next assist's tor the capital
felony.
DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER, MAT 31.

CAFTIJaZ or Two HUWDRID AND. SIZTY-osier
Tana! ALTS DT THZ AILLITAIRT.—A combined men-
mem of various detachments from different parts of the
County of Clare, and of the County of Galway, was era
mad on the night of Sunday last, the 22d instant, foe the
purpose of surprising and surrounding the 'midnight legis-
lators of the county of Galway. The detachment from Clare
consisted of that of the 74th regiment, from Moyne.
House, Fcakle, and Cathie; those of Galway, consisted of
ntrvng inures of the sat 110th infsntry,and avian*
of the Bth Hussars. All these wiles met, and found a gmad
junction atB in the mowing of Monday, at a Riven point, st
Den, brien, having, in their sweeping march. secured 261
Terry Alta. The combined parties of Illoynoe.House sod
the 74th wain-lent. succeeded, after a long chose,
in securing 111 icha.l Connolly, a chief header of the Testy
Alts, charged with having directed the late attack on Sir J.
Burke's house, at Marble-Dili. All the above prisoners
were sent, under Wel% escorts, to Loughrea. Of the above
prisoners. several lave been identified as being concerned in
recent outs: s. The investigation commencrd on Wednes-
day. and is still going on. Many most respectable witnesses
have been summoned. The result will be of vast import.
once.—Lfsecrick Cheetah-le.
On Monday last, Mr. B. IL Bradshaw, accompanied by
Lis son, Mr. Samuel Bradshaw, and four bailiffs, pro-
ceeded to the lands of Coolderry, within four miles of
Neoagb, now in the pow-Ilion of William Evans, Esq. of
Claremont, to distrain for rent under an order from the
Court of Chancery—nral, after having made a secure
of about ninety head of stock, a large mob astamWed,
armed with stones, sticks, spades, and various other wes-
pone, and forcibly rescued same, driving them off the tows.
land, said party being led on, it is said, by several
men in the employsiteut of Mr. Evans. During the
conflicts, a female appeared on the hals, dressed in the
most fashionable style ; and considering die short distance
front the obove.inentioned lands across the Shannon, I am
fully convinces] it must be either Lady Clare, or her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Spades, as there was no attempt made
by the populace then' assembled until she made Ler apps
ants; and were it not fur a party of military, which lain
pened to be passing at the tuunicut, air. B. and his rani'
would have ben very roughly handled by her Ladyship's
bud of Terry MU.
I esterday the inform: thong of Mrs. Courtney were take
by the magistrates of Heury.strcet policeaffiee. Naiad her
husband, for basing committed au assault, with intent to
kill her.—According to the infortnatiena which she has
sworn, it would appear that her husband had as usual re-
tired at an early hour to bed, on Friday night, and that
she was engaged in the bar, between the heirs of one sad
two o'clock, when Captain Barker, who lodged in the
house, cane In, and was behind the bar, which Is an ea-
tretnely close old conaned place, taking a glass of grog.
They were tact, she says, speaking more than a ample of
minutes when her husband rushed iu with a knife
in his hand, and stabbed Barker; abe, affrighted at the
Melting fury of her husband, fled from him, and concealed
herself in one of the hed.clismbers of the goose • her huh•
band made search I'm her, and when he found her, stabbed
her with the knife in the face, aims, and several parts
of the body. The inkatuations of Mrs. Courtney were
taken from her in tier bed; she denim on her oath,
in the moat positive manner, that any thing criminal
occurred between her and Captain Beaker. faunae,
was yesterday committed for further examination.--
The pLece to which Captain Barker retired has been disco'
vered—he was In a most dangerous state, and is unable to
quit his bed. An application was made at the palm erg*
yestenlay, to have his clothes and XL his money, returned
to him ; if was opposed by Courtney's agent, on thereon,'
that Mrs. Courtney had taken some money of his, and that
it might he -Courtney's money that was in Writer's hop.
The Magistrates stated that they could smoke Do order on
the subject.

ssm, _tes•leassessur
BIRTH.
The lst Inst. at Hammond.eottage, near Cheshunt, the
dy of Charles Johnston, Bag. of a daughter.

MARRIED.
The 2(1 Met. et Rennondrey. the Rev. Wm. Curling, to
lary, daughter et the late J. Johnston. Hasp lath Lowe"'

LAM"
?be Id lost. Amu, wife of Mr. J. Bettye, d C61°61111.
street, soticho24.
Lownox 2 hinted sod Published by Joint iliass. al Ille
I STAa (Prima, No. I. Pickett.plsee, Teeple 11.

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