Star.
London, England, 1825-03-18 00:00:00

LIMERICK ASSIZES, MARCH 9.

Patrick Cusack, Eleanor Ryan, Edmond Hall, and
Patrick Lennane, were given in charge, for the murder
of John Ryan, the husband of the female prisoner, at
Ballyvourneen, on the 12th of October, 1824—Patrick
Cusack, fOr having given one mortal blow of a hatchet,
of which he instantly died; and that the other prisohers
were aiding and assisting ; and on a second indict-
ment, that Patrick Cusack did strangle the said John
Ryan with a rope, and that the others were aiding and'
assisting.
Mr. Serjeant GOOLD stated the case to the Jury. The
unfortunate deceased, on the night of this transaction,
went to bed intoxicated, the prisoners having taken
pains to ply him with liquor, as he had been madeot.
he (the Learned Serjeant) was instructed to state, to
drink four or five tea-cups of whiskey; it would be
proved, that while overcome by intoxication and re=
tired to his bed, Cusack fixed a rope round his neck,
and instantly Strangled him; and that the prisoners then
'brought his body to ;Ise fire-place to binn him, intend-
ing thereby to conceit all means of discovery, which,
having been unabld to effect, they used him in a way
which he solemnly declared to GOD he was unable
to express.
Miry Ryan, a girl about eight years of age, the'
daughter of the female prisoner, said, she remembers the,
day her father came from the fair of Bally brood ; there
was a kitchen and parlour in the house; 'she slept in the,
room next the kitchen, which every person in the house.
used to call the parlour; there was a bed in that room;
knoivi Cusack and Hall; was sick then and her mo-.
Cher kept her up; when her father came home froth the
fair she was in bed, and when he came home in the
evening he gave her mother two apples, and gave her-
self two more; the last night entirely that she saw her
father, she saw Cbsailt and her mother along with him ;
Cusack often came into the house, and Cusack's mother
used to Milo* him, and he always hid himself in a cel-.
lar ; her father is dead, and she saw something done to'
him; they were drinking Whiskey, which Nelly Flinn
had brought in a brittle from Limerick, and which she,
left there in the day time ; there was it great fire in the:
parlour ; when they Were drinking the whiskey, Cusack'
threw a tea-cup of whiskey in her father's face, and her
father cursed, him ; Cusack came by night with a;
hatchet, and after her father went to bed, he came.
with a halter, and squeezed it round her father's.
neck ; it was her mother bid huh ; they dragged hen
father out of the bed on the (Mot, 'end cut his legs and:
arms (pointing at the time to both), she cried, and'
Cusack swore he'd kill her, if she disturbed the people.
with crying; 'she cried fur teeing her father choking
her mother desired Cusack for Gdn Ar.itiollvv's sake
not to kill her ; after that they cut his arm and-leg;
they threw them on the fire, and left him there until
they heard a car coining; MO MOVit up, and threw
Water on it *6Ol the bpi,' ; her mother took him by
thebead, and Ctireadlitiyik him by the legs and put him
into a 'sheet, acid 'thee l'ald'bint on the box ; indeed, she
saw all this; her father did not speak, but grunted,
When the rope was mead his neck. Often saw Cusack
before ; saw Hall..WOhing abroad 'at the door, and he
`laid the latch down vary tasyiand was peeping into the
room, but was not inside entirely;* when her father's
brother came, he asked Why -did not her mother send
One of the servant boys to thdlk fOr her father? The
body was laid on the white little box when Hall was
peeping in; she told this first when her father was
found in a little bog-hole ; theie was water thrown ohs
the body, and it was bi ought in by Moll Cramer.
Mary Cramer, a female thirty years of age, corrobo-
rated the above witness's evidence. She saw Hall come
out of a hole in the cellar, which was in the parlour ,
they then took and 'bundled up the body in a sheet.
As she was standing at the parlour-door, she saw a
glimpie of her master's face, which appeared as if
burned ; saw Cusack, Hall, and Mrs. Ryan there at the
time, and no one else; they wrapped the four corners
of the sheet round the body, and then plated it in a
middling-sized white bOx, near the parlour-door. Len-
nane came in at this time, and Cu,ack asked ahem all
to kelp to lift the cr,,rpse off the box ; Lennarie put his
hands to it, and witness stretched out her% for the sane
Apurpose; they all saw witness t)le tiMe ; witness

again returned to bedkaid was shoitly after called u .7
by. Mrs. Rya*, who ritiAiis, hitt td• come into the par-
lour, and ;old her it. was. Jack kal .whe bad lighted
the fire before she went out.; and deslied her to go and
see if he was in the leitchba;, ihe went out for that pur-
pose with a lighted tandle, and returned, when Mrs.
Ryan desired her, if tray one asked her about the matter,
'to say that she had been sent by Mrs. Ryan to see if
her husband was in the kitchen ; Mrs. Ryan was getting
.up at the tithe, and desired her to cal). the boy; the fire
was very large, and extended from the fire-place over
the greater part of the floor, and it was far in the day
when it was burned out ; she did not see what happened
to the body after it was taken off the white box by
Cusack, Hall, and Lennane; Mrs. Ryan was standing
on the floor; she now identified all the prisoners, and
when she laid the crier's wand on the head of Lennane,
he called aloud, " get along, you perjurer, you
scoundrel., to be taking away the men's lives."—The
Jury returned the following verdict: Eleanor Ryan,
Guilty; Edmund Hall, Guilty; Patrick Cusack,Guilty;
and Patrick Lennane, Not Guilty.
MARCH 12.--ErtegutioN.—Yesterday, at about two
o'clock, Mrs. Ryan. and Cusack underwent the sentence
of the law at the County Prison, for the murder of the
husband ,of the former. The unhap?y woman was
penitent and resigned—Cusack was le,s firm. The se-
cond man implicated in this case (Hall) has beentespited.
Mrs. Ryan was attended on the scaffold by the Rev.
Mr. Tuohy, and the ltev. Mr. Maddan ; and Cusack, by
the Rev. Mr. Hogan- and the Rev. Mr. M•Namara.