Star.
London, England, 1829-09-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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CLONMEL ASSIZES, An. MI.

coN ICTION OF FOUR BROTHERS, FOR MURDER.
Thomas, Pierce, Nicholas, James, and EdmundWal-
tete. stood charged with the murder of Arthur Graham,
their brother-in-law, at Coda, on the 16th of last May.
The indictment stated that Thomas Wallace did affix a
rope round the neck of Graham, and that he did choke,
,iiffctcate, and strangle him, and that the other prisoners
were aiding.
'fhe priioners were comfortable-looking farmers, and
were particularly handsome and fine-looking men. Every
person in Court was struck with the extraordinary like-
ness they all bore to each other. The elder of the five
n•as about 4.5 years of age, and the younger about 27.
Mr. SCOTT, King's Counsel, stated to the Court, that
it became his duty, in the absence of the Solicitor-Gene-
cal. who was called away by other avocations, to state all
the circumstances connected with this most atrocious

sold horrible murder. Mr. Scott then gave a very
!,.tigthened detail of the evidence to be produced on the
trial, in which he was fully borne out by the witnesses
he produced.
The first witness called was Anne Graham, the mother
of the deceased. She was examined by Mr. O'Dw YEA,
ind stated, that the night her son was murdered he was
at her house till an hour or two AO nightfall; that
when he was about to go home he called her to the door
to observe the fineness of the night, and with what bril-
liancy the moon shone ; that she then saw him depart,
and go towards his own house, which was only a few
perches distant from hers ; that her son was married to
Mary Wallace, the sister of the prisoners, of whom he
was very fond, but she was " a bad head to him." That
she was present on the Tuesday before her son was mur-
dered, when deceased, and Ned and Jem Wallace, had a
dispute about the rent of potato ground, when Ned and
,f em Wallace endeavoured to take away the potatoes, and
the deceased prevented them; that the prisoners Thomas
and Pierce lived at Coolanuro, which was a mile from
the house of the deceased. Witness saw the body of
her son the morning (Sunday) after he was murdered ; it
was in a miserable, horrid, dirty state ; the neck was cut
and marked in two places as if with a rope ; the face was
cut, and the tongue protruded far beyond the lips ; there
was blood running from the ears and nose ; there was,
the mark of the heel of a shoe on the chest, there was
another mark of the heel of a shoe on the forehead, and
.he could count the impressions of the nails which were
in the shoes that struck him on the forehead.
Thomas Skehan deposed to hearing a dispute between
the deceased and the prisoner James, before the murder.
Etlmond Cummins, a little boy, saw three of the five
prisoners, on the night of the murder, prepare the rope
with which it is supposed the deceased was strangled.
Margaret Horan stated that she lived as servant with
the prisoner Thomas Wallace, in May last, when Arthur
(':ahem was murdered. On the Monday after Graham
was murdered, heard Tom tell his wife to wash his brown
coat, and he said he often desired her to do it, and that
if any of the Peelers should come and see it dirty, they
Ileuhl say he was out on Saturday night ; Tom's wife
took out the coat and washed it in a lake, which is in a
field near the house, and then put it on a hedge to dry ;
before the Wallaces were taken, witness was brought
before Captain Millett, and denied any knowledge of the
washing of the coat ; Tom and Pierce desired her to stick
to what she said if she should again be examined.
Michael Landers (a boy about 15 years of age), ex-
,mined by the Hon. Mr. PLITs ETT—I live at Knock-
loran, on the same townlaml where James, Edmond, and
Nicholas Wallace live; Arthur Graham was killed on a
Saturday night, and I was out herding cattle for Maxey
441 Sunday, the day following ; after putting up the
cattle on Sunday evening, I was returning home, about
nine o'clock, and was passing by Ned, James, and Ni-
cholas Wallace's door, and on hearing voices inside, I
itoppad to listen. Wallace's mother lives in the house
with them, and I heard Margaret Wallace (the mother
of the prisoners), say to Ned, " What way did you
kill him ?" Ned answered, "We dragged hint along
lie ground till he was dead." Margaret Wallace then
said, " What will you do, if this crime is found against
ye 9" Ned again answered and said, " I don't think it
e ill be found out, as no one knows it but ourselves. I
did not see them during this conversation, but I knew
their voices well, and could not be mistaken. Margaret
Wallace then asked, " Did you leave the cord under his
neck 2" "We did not," said Ned. " Why didn't
yen ?" said Margaret, " and you would never be brought
to any account, because the people would suspect that he
killed himself." I told my master, Walter Maxey, in the
course of the week, every word of the conversation I
heard with the Wallaces ; I am quite certain that it was
Ned that held the conversation with his mother.

The prisoners, in their defence, called witnesses to im-
peach the testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution,
but the jury found all the prisoners, with the exception
of James, Guilty.