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the lane with Inspector Carmody; when we „
to it we found the child's cap near the place

lay • the child was lying on its hack ; its throat was cut
Delahunt told me he had a sore foot.
John Delahunt, after being told by the coroner that sos
pinion was attached to him, entered into a long statemen
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with a considerable degree of circumstantial detail, but which
amounted to little more than an amplification of the tale
given to the constable. After several witnesses had given
evidence, tending to implicate Delahunt as the murderer of
the child.

Thomas Delahunt was exhamined.—He stated he was
brother of John Delahunt; saw his brother John yesterday
betwen seven and eight o'clock in the evening, in my own
room in Britain-street ; he had a little boy with him ; it was a
strange child, between nine and ten years of age ; saw his
brother also at about half-past twelve o'clock yesterday ; he
said he was going down to the Castle-yard to Major Browne;
in the evening when he came in he said he had a little gentle-
man with him, and then called the little child into the room ;
he said to the child " come in ;" when the child came in my
wife a,ked him his name, and he said it was Tom Maguire ;
she asked him where he lived, and he answered he did not
know; the child was then brought over to me, and I saw he
had a bib on; I cannot say what colour; lie had a little blue
cap on ; he was in his bare feet; could not distinguish any
other part of his dress; his (witness's) brother and the
child did not remain more than about thirteen minutes ; this
was between seven and eight, or between eight and nine,
o'clock ; he then took the child with him to leave him
(he said) in Buckingham-street; the child I have just seen
lying dead in the stable lane, Pembroke-road, appears to me
to be the same child that was with his (witness's) brother at
his room last night ; he (witness) felt he could safely say it is
the same child; his (witness's) brother John came back iu
about twenty minutes after going out with the child, and
said he had left it in Cumberland-street, and that the child
said he knew his way home from that; he did not stop more
than about twenty minutes after that.

Margaret De!Aunt (wife of the last witness) was next called
to be examined. She appeared to be deeply affected, and
could not give her testimony for some time. It was the same
as that of her husband. She fully identified the child she
saw dead in the stable lane as the child she saw with John
Delahunt on the evening previous in her husband's room.
The witness fainted after giving her testimony, and remained
insensible for a considerable time.

Evidence was then adduced to prove the child to be the
son of Thomas Maguire, a biscuit baker, and John Delahunt
was brought into the room, and acquainted with the testimony'
of the witnesses. He said, as soon as the law had gone
through its force, he would be able to lay his band upon the
murderers, though, in his statement before, he said he did
not know the person whom he saw maltreating the child.
The jury, after a little consideration, brought in a verdict of
" wilful murder against John Delahunt," and the prisoner
was committed to Kilmainham, to stand his trial.