The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-12 00:00:00

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COLD-BLOODED MURDER AT NEWTOWN-
HAMILTON, IN THE COUNTY OF ARMAGH.

We have this day the painful duty of recording a murder
which has occurred within a few miles of this town—and
which, in point of daring and savage atrocity, is perhaps un-
paralleled in the north of Ireland. The facts, as communi-
cated to us, are as follows :

" On Saturday evening last, between five and six o'clock,
six men, armed, approached the house occupied by a Mr.
Powell (land-surveyor to Mr. Quinn), situated convenient
to the Roman Catholic chapel of New townhamilton in the
county of Armagh, and a quarter of a mile distant from the
latter village. On rapping at the door, it was opened by the
servant-maid, who, in answer to their inquiries, said her
master was at home, but that he was engaged. Four of the
party then rushed forward, and, entering the parlour where
Mr. Powell was at the time sitting with his two daughters,
peremptorily demanded what he was doing about the
School-house in the Planting?' [We understand that a
School-house—for some reason or other, unexplained to us,
obnoxious to certain parties—had been in progress of erec-
tion on. Mr. Quinn's estate, under the superintendence of
Mr. Powell.] To this interrogatory Mr. P. replied, by
asking the fellows how they dared to enter his house in the
manner and at the hour they did? Upon which three of the
ruffians, the fourth having been courageously held back by
one of the young ladies, seized bold of Mr. P., and not-
withstanding that he, being a powerful man, struggled des-
perately, they at length succeeded in dragging him outside
of his hall door, where, deaf to every appeal for mercy,
they inhumanly shot him through the heart ! The ruffian
who remained inside struggling with the daughter, at length
freed himself from her desperate gripe by brutally striking
her on the forehead with the butt-end of his pistol, frac-
turing her skull, and prostrating her senseless at his feet !
This horrible tragedy occupied but a few moments ; in the
interim, however, the second daughter, having escaped by a
back door, ran to the adjoining village and alarmed the in-
habitants. But, alas ! assistance came too late. The assas-
sins had decamped. The body of the unfortunate father was
found, where it had fallen, at the door; his death, from the
nature of the wound, must have been instantaneous. The
The heroic daughter, though still in a state of insensibility,
was by surgical aid restored to consciousness—her life is not
considered in danger.

" These are the- only particulars that have as yet reached
us. We understand, however that four fellows are now in
custody, charged with having been concerned in this foul and
cold-blooded inurder.--Newry TelegraPh•

We understand his Royal Highness Prince George of Cam-
bridge, will, in the course of a few weeks, be promoted in the
army.—Morning Herald.

During the year 1840, the Earl of Stamford and Warring-
ton has contributed towards the increase of church accom-
modation the munificent sum of four thousand two hundred
pounds. Were all other churchmen to give in the same
proportion to their means, there would soon be no cause of
complaint on this subject.--Ten Towns Messenger.