The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-01 00:00:00

DE.VVII OF THE BISHOP OF KILLALOE.

-The right reverend Christopher Batson, Bishop of Killalne
-and Clootert, (which dioceses were recently united under the
Irish church temporalities'act;) died at his lodgings, in Bath,
on Tuesday. The- deceased prelate was in his 89th year, and
had been for some time sojiurning in that city for the benefit.
of his health, which, though of late o•radmilly declining, enabled
notwithstanding his great'age,6to enjoy, until witin a day
or two of his -departure, the accustomed society'of his amiable-
family. The deceased was formerly Fellow of New College,
Oxford, and D. D. of Oxford and Dublin; was consecrated
Bishop of Clonfert in 1804.
This is not one of the confiscated bishoprics, and already has
rumour spread abroad the names of the Provost Doctor Saiilier,
Lord EdWard Chichester, the Dean of Raphoe, and the Hon.
Mr. Plunket, the Dean of Down. We shoald be disposed to
back the Hannibal as the winner for the fear in which Lord
Mulgrave holds the Chancellor. Of course a whig or a radical
will be selected; and we believe, on the score of politics, the
Dean of Raphoe is the least exceptionable, while on that of re-
ligiod and character he is certainly-not the least worthy.

UARLOW ASSIZES, MONDAY, MARCH 21.

ALLEGED MURDER OF PRIEST WALSH.-TRIAL OF ANNE

ROONEY FOR PERJURY.

At the sitting ,of the Court this morning, Anne Rooney was
arraigned for wilful and corrupt, perjury.
Mr. A rabin detailed the facts to the jury, and then called
Maker Molloy, Esq., • a magistrate, who being sworn, stated
that on the 22d of -August last, Anne Rooney, the prisoner,
came before him and deposed on oath as follows :—•• That
about a-week before Father John Walsh was killed, she was
hired as a binder with a person of the name of Howard, who
lived near the bridge of Kilgrenny, in the county of Carlow,
and that on the night he was killed, about' ten o'cioek, three
men named Archv Sly,.Aby, Wynne, and Hugh Styles, came
into said named- flovirey'S house, where deponent was, and sat
down by the fire to smoke, and that while there she heard Sly
say in a whisper to Wynne:that he ought to go down to Kil-
grenny-bridge and whistle when the priest would be coming.
That shortly iifter that, she, with Howley's wife and -daughter,
Kitty, walked out together down the field towards the bridge,
and.that after a little time Sly and Styles came up and went
towards the bridge; that informant and the -women who were
with her were frightened, and they went inside two quickset
bushes and remained there half an hour watching Sly. Styles,
and Wynne; that Wynne -bad a long. pole in his hands, and
that after a short time they were joined by three other men
whom informant did not know; and that in about half an hour
after she gat behind the' said bushes, she heard a horSeman
approaching the bridge, whom informant recogniSe'd to be
Father John Walsh ; be was riding slowly and whistling; that
the whole party then surrounded the priest ; that Sly took
hold of the .bridle, and said that he (the priest) was the man
they wanted; the priest asked was it drink or'money they
wanted; if it was he would give it to thorn; they answered it
was himself they wanted ; that Wynne then took -his feet out of
the stirrups and pulled him doWn from his horse; that Father
John Walsh then asked for two minutes to pray, arid 'to stand
back two yards from him, to which Sly replied, 'you often
dragged us through your teeth and we will now drag you
through ours ;' that Wynne said, thanks be to God we are
getting the better of von;' that the, priest was at this time
stretched..on the ground, and that Wynne had his knees on his
stomach, and that Sly struck him a blOw on the head with a
small crow-bar of iron; that Styles was armed with a hammer,
and attacked the priest on the head; that upon Sly giving him
the first blow he screeched loudly twice ; but that after the blow
•he got froin Styles he only gave one little moan; that Sly,
Styles, and Wynne, went down to Wynne's house, and the
Other three men went away; bat the three first returned and
stirred the hotly, to see if there was any life in it.
This account appeared quite minute, but the first witness
called—namely, the governor of Nass gaol. proved that the pri-
soner, Anne Rooney,- was confined in that gaol on the day
Father Walsh was killed,-and for sixteen days after—namely,
until the 15th of August
•

The women, Howley, and her daughter, here called tip, and
deposed that they never saw Anne Rooney in their liVes before.
. Edward Gorman, Esq., the coroner of the county, deposed
that the inquest was held on the Rev. Mr. Walsh, on the 31st of

The prisoner was fouud guilty. When she heard the verdict
she exclaimed—" Lord be praised; better news to us. I'll
have a pleasant journey—l'll quit the country; for all my
friends are denying we." (Laughter.)
Baron Smith passed sentence on her in very impressive
terms. He dwelt uptin the enormity of her crime as compared
with ordinary cases of perjury—for if her testimony had gone
before a petit jury, and was credited by them, she would have
caused the murder of three persons, who, as far as she could
knoW anything of the matter, were innocent.