Star.
London, England, 1823-09-16 00:00:00

}x PEST ON. iIiR.FRA.NkS VD 1 A•' . • 411ILY . . .

• CORK,SEPTFALBER 12. : ..,:.:: i
Tb.
e. Inquest commenced before JAMES OltitillN.,
A. ttnioner, and twelve Jurymen, at eleyed o'clock
oil Wednesday, and continued till six o'clock isrthe
.iiren*Abg.. Five witnesses were examined, and aftei a very
solemn inve,tigation, a verdict .of " Wilfisl Murder
ikainst some persons- waknotom," was returned. The fol-
lowing is the substance of the evidence.
Mr..Franks's house had been burned some time ago;
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by the miscreants who devastate this country, and was
now undergoing repair. Not a door had been yet put
tip; the family principally lived in one small room, not
.i.srelire feet square, the window sashei of which were
.not ptit.up ; and the wind. was excluded only by a cur-
tAin. 011-the day of the4muider; Mrs.. Franks and her
ion had been at Kildorrey, and returned to a late dinner,
Which had been scarcely over when a noise was heard
in the passage. Mr. Franks started up, and said, " here
are My friends, paying me another visit," and beckoning
to his wife and son to remain quiet, he went outside
the room door; here he was met by a fellow of large
ititure, between whom and him a contest ensued.—
this man was not armed, and they fought with their
hands, Mr. Franks retreating to the parlour; on his en-
44:Ong which the insurgents rushed in and soon filled
the room. At this time a servant-girl, about foUrteen
iears of age, tithe name of Mary Myer, a most iatel-
-tient creature, stepped under a table, and concealing
herself there, witnessed the horrid scene that followed.
The leader of the insurgents, a ruffian dressed in WO.
man's clothes, demanded of Mr. Franks his arms: Mr.
Franks said he had none in the house; but that he
Would, if they chose, accompany the party to Rock-
bills, and get them from Mr. Smith, who had them.
The leader then said, a Boys, do your duty!" and he
himself upset a table, on which a lighted candle was
placed; which being extinguished, he again had it
lighted at a fire in the room. Mr. Franks, his wife, and
his son went on their knees to beg for mercy, assuring
the leader of the party that they had no arms ; but here
no mercy was to be found. The savage, as if impa-
tient of delay, snatched a short gun from one of his
followers, and within the distance of three feet of the un-
happy father, fired, and lodged two bullets in his heart.
They. then proceeded to dispatch the son, and here a
dreadful scene ensued ; the mother, only anxious to pre-
lerie her son, and regardless of her own safety, clung
to ihe wretched young man, as if to shield him from the
4engeante of the assassins. They repeatedly tried to
force her from him, and told her to retire to another
foom, but she would not leave her son; they then struck
her With a heavy iron bar on the left temple, and literally
shattered the head to atoms ; after which they beat the
sous brains out, and mutilated all the bodies of the
&ceased. At the commencement of the horrid work
*nether female servant had been shut up in another room
by the . ruffians ; when they had murdered the young
linin; they thought they heard some groans, or sound, 1
ii if life was not entirely eitinct ; and the candle having
been extinguished, they took this servant from her place
;if confinement, and one of them holding her by the
hind with one hand; and her head down with the other,
made her proceed to a cupboard in the parlour, and take
fit a candle and light it i they then drove two heavy iron
ars through the dead bodies; and each man in succession,
a tea a long three-pronged fork, arid repeatedly drove it
‘ into their bodies. "It also appeared that another ruffian,
iecoud in command, was dressed in female apparel. He
commanded" outside the house, and seeing a woman ap-
pear at the door of an outhouse, with a child in her
arms; he called out "To bed, to bed," and placed a sen-
tinel at the door. When a shot was fired inside, this
felloW danced a regular hornpipe, as if delighted at the
dreadful scene going forward. The' woman of this
house is named Ulaveen, and gave testimony as above;
her son immediately on the party marching off, mounted
a horse, and rode to Kildorrey, whence a military party
L arrived in half an hour .at the scene of carnage. It
would appear that the insurgents separated, and pro-
ceeded in different directions, as blood was traced on
the roads to Doneraile and Kildorrey. .
and it
pretty . nearly the' substance of the evidence,
44 it is sufficient to thrill any soul. with , horror lode-
Scribible, and to stamp a deeper stain upon the Irish
4haratter, already sanguined with the blood of innu-
Mer Ole murders, and disgraced with peculiar atrocities.
We are told that the sight, on entering Mr. Frankes
tons/
~was truly shocking. Nothing
.ad bail
.moved
Ip4e. 'the perpetration of the murder: the, ilead bodies
lay as they had been left; in all the horror of .gaping
Wounds, broken limbs, andimangled bodies. •It was an
14041. liug sight, and calculated to fill the spettittur. with
.
l &mai; The offendet&riniain triidilinvered.

r • 1 • Venn,-
. Saturday morning tre. house of W. Rooke, Esq. 6L,
pper Seymour-street, Portman; square, was entered by
g.
ieves. The family is in the country, and the domes-
iris:after securing the house, retired to bed abonfelevea
tgalack on Friday night. About one o'clock on Saturday
morning the lady's-maid was awoke by a noise on the
stairs ; she crept out of • bed, and, on looking over the
I;anisteri :he saw two fellows in the passage endeavour-
ig to
O force off
,the lock of the street door. She crept
Beck to the drawing-room, and, raising the window,
sprung i rattle ; but the -villains 'Stade their escape at
Ore back of the house: they catered by a ladder at the
ffisi ilea back oiridoyr, and had packed up property to
a large amount, ready to be carried off..
The house of Mr. Dobbin, a baker, at Laytonstone,
was broken into on Sattirday evening, and sobbed of
k 325 in notes., and nearly 1:106 in cash. .
From the rapers published in the north of England,
it.ippeirs• that the crops of every kind are as abundant
•as they are in the south. - . , ;
THE CANAL IN ST: SAMES'S Pang. —Yesterday
. nr9ining the men commenced for.the first time to dral
4 the water from the Canal, in St.Juses's Park, into the
. sewer, in order to tarry it off upon a level oithahe river,
li bids. Will beeffected in a fey/. days, when the steam-
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erie Will be brought into operation to draw it corn.
iletely off. The whole apparatus of the latter is now
completed and flied; but there are iruirk hands still at
pork in Covering it over and finishing the brick-works
Navigators are employed in clearing the Canal, and
makitig room' for the stream to flow with 'greater rapi-
i'ti ; the mud on each sidelivairied off by barrows. ,
Yesterday afternoon the workmen employed in remov•
ipg the mud (Corn the, lrOtio6 of tbe.Cathil in Si. James's
park, near the iron r.;iling, discovered a quantity of base
coin; reserribling.the lest-coin Age Of silver shillingt. ,It
is itipiiOsed they Inuit have been thrown in; for-the pup.
rose of tilitlitli lig detection, by same person on their way
to TOiliiltiehis l'r ison:
~,ViSigris.floileriu had a brother an Abbe, who, be•
side, ivOtik extretaely.idiNfreciato4tly, prolonged the joys of the
t-ble tuld basked in the " beams of, rosy wine," till he became a
tittle twilioed. A persottoce slat silting the poet bow bis brothel
emplosvdhis time?—'-" In the mornipgl"says the satirist, " my
t: uj-er saii Mass ;1r :be ever;nfiiie does riot knit ;.;;J: 'te 3,:0 1",