Worcester daily spy., 1860-01-26
Criminal Court.
TRIAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

1hlAL tOK MANSLAOGHIER. X.
Wednesday, Jan. 25.-John Pope and VIM.
Ryan, indicted for manslaughter in Oxford
were put on trial. Very and McCafferty ap-
peared for the defendants. The case is as fol.
lows Timothy Moran was assaulted by the
defendants in the town of Oxford, last De
cember, and severely beaten. He survived
about week after the assault.
| DR.. Samuel c. Paine of Oxford testified that
| the principal wound upon Moran extended
from the Top of his head to the right ear. The
skull bone was driven by the blow into the
brain. 1t was his firm belief that deceased
came to his death from the wounds inflicted by
defendants.
! Dr. Holman of oOxford stated that in his
opinion Moran came to his death from injuries
on the brain received at the hands of the de-
fendants
Mrs Moran, wife of the deceased, was next
put upon the stand. Being unable to speak
English, she gave her testimony through an
interpreter. She testified that she saw the de-
iendants strike her husband with large clubs
that they both struck him while standing, and
also after he fell. She cried, Don't for Gcds
sake take his life p' AT the time of the as
sault, Mrs. Moran was returning from the
house Of Pope Tone of the detendantsl, where
she had been for some purpose--tor what she
was not allowed to state. When She first saw
her husband, he was alone behind Popes
house. Soon the defendants came round the
corner OF the house, raised their clubs, and
struck her husband. The cross examination
OF Mrs Moran was very lengthy,
The court came in, in the afternoon at IA
past two,and the cross examination was resum'
ed by Mr.. McCafferty. The examination was
very tedious, as all questions were asked
through an interpreter. Thus far the court
has been filled with spectators. The witness
said both defendants struck her husband at
the same time, 1t appears further that Pope
and Ryan approached Moran at the same time
He (Moran) held in his hand stick some
three feet long, and about as large as brooms
handle, which, the witness testifies, he threw
| away on their approach. Where she threw it
she is unable to say certainly, but she thought
| he threw it into the street The probable
drift Of these questions is to establish the fact
| that deceased struck one or both defendants
| before they struck him. The cross examina-
| ton of Mrs. Moran occupied about four hours
and half. The District Attorney wished to
know if the Corkonians did not have an antip-
athy against the landowners. Mr.. McCatfer-
ty objected to the question as immaterial.
Johanna Shay of Oxford, was the next wit.
ness. She testified that she saw Moran after
he was beat; that he was at her house before
he was struck; that her cold man" gave him
a suspender that Moran was in her opinion
intoxicated; that when he left her house, he
went toward Pope's house. 1t was then just
beginning to be dark and Mrs. Moran, who
was at her house with her husband, followed
him. She saw Mrs. Moran again the same
night, when she (witness) went into the road
met Mrs Moran with stick Shown in COURT
i'll her hand
The other witnesses examined were Deputy
Sheriff Chaffee, Michael c. Donahue, and
Daniel c. Smith, whose testimony did not es-
sentially differ from that given at the preIimi-
nary examination. The court adjourned to
o'clock this morning