The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

STATE OF QUEEV'S COUNTY, °JRELAND

The 4eineter Express of Saturday states that that part
of Queen's County :biclE fair to rival North Tipperary
in its mut•sanguinary phases, a sudden outburst of vio-
lence and-outrage, almost cnparallteld in atrocity, having
taken place during the short period and in ,the limited
sphere marled by the perpetration. The &weirs then
furnishes the they ace as follow— :

" About seven o'clock a party of armed men surround-
ed the house of Thomas Conroy, on the land.of ,Clona-
heen, of which property he is bailiff. Two of them
entered and asked for the man.of the house. Conroy in-
cautiously made answer and eaid, Here I am;' a4pon
which one of the party desired -him to kneel down, pre-
sented a pistol at,his head at the-same time. Conroyav-
ing assumed a kneeling position, the Rockite demanded of
him his firearms. Having declared that he had none, the
man said, Where are those which. Mr. Coen gave you;?'
and at the same :time he discharged his pistol at him,
wounding him with three sings in the breast. Conroy fell
prostrate and bleeding on the floor and the two assassins
retired ; the second one having in the interim rummaged
the boxes. Conroy's wife now lifted him from off the
ground, and while she wasin the act of ,doing so, she heard
a voice outside exclaim, 'Ci'o back and shoot him dead;'.
and almost at the instantithe same ruffian re-entered and
discharged a large pistol or +blunderbuss at her wounded
husband's head. The shot lad no effect upon Conroy,
for he was saved by his wifes arm, which had been flung
*mud his neck, but she received a bullet which shatter-
ed her arm. The party, being satisfied thee they had
assaesinated Conroy departed. Is is to be remarked, that
during this tragical occurrence there were two men (rela-
tives of Conroy) sitting at the Are, but they were obliged
to keep.tbeir beads averted, under the threat of having
their braise blown out. There wee also a number*f per-
sons in ithe adjoining house, which is under the same
roof, but no exertion was made either to rescue Conroy,
or to captuee those who attempted to assassinate him.
Tke man who Aril! the shot was in no way disguised ;
and was tall and well-looking. In about 15 minutes after
the above attempt to assassinate, a band cf armed men,
supposed to be the actors in the foregoing diabolical at-
tempt, went to the; ouse of John Glennon. in the same
neighbourhood; there were in the house at the time
Glennon, his two daughters, Anne and Mary, and
three men named John Dunne, John Murphy, and Daniel
Farrell. Anne Glennon hearing a noise at the door, went
and opened it, upon which three men entered, one of
whom, a tall young man, was armed with a pistol, The
armed man desired Glennon to kneel down ; having com-
plied, he accused him of taking ground. Glennon denied
having taken any. The fellow then asked him if his sons
did not work with Mr. Beale? To this he answered that
they did. Upon this the second man said, ' Shoot him ;'
but the third man interfered, saying, that perhaps they
were wronging him. They then contented themselves
with extorting a promise from him that he would give up
the land. Before they departed they threatened him with
death if he should be the occasion if bringing them there
a second time. On the same night, in the neighbourhood
of Barkmill, as Mr. J. Manley was sitting by his fireside,
about nine o'clock, a shot was fired through the window,
which wounded the back of his head, at the same time
lodging some bullets in the wall near him. His servant
man, named Kennedy, was sitting at the fire with him at
the time ; the maid servant, Ann Ackroyd, who had
entered th,a house almost at the moment the shot was
fired, states she saw five or six men at the end of the
house. Conroy and his wife are better, and hopes are en-
tertained of the recovery of the former. Since the perpe-
tration t K the outrage, not one of his. neighbours has ex-
pressed any sympathy for his condition. Ap p pig:l3oe of