Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-01
A Shocking Murder In Ireland.

The foreign journals describe the incl
dents of fearful murder case, which
took place recently near Parsonstown,
ireland. The Kings County Chronicle,
an Irish paper, says:
On Friday, May 26th, a man named
Hayes was arrested on a charge OF hav-
ing M 1e away with his wife, who had
been lssing since the previous Mon.
day, ard who, the prisoner had alleged,
4 had gone to America. On that day,
however, Hayes made a full confession
of his crime. He said that on Tuesday
morning about 4 o'clock, before he got
up, he gave the unfortunate woman a
kick which knocked her out of the bed,
and that she fell on the floor, and that
he went to sleep again, and did not think
more of the matter till he awoke again
in about two hours, when he found her
still lying on the floor where she fell
and bleeding profusely.
He got up and washed her face, and
then found that she was dead, when
he got sack and put her clothes and
herself into it and brought it down to
the bog and buried it. He then de-
scribed how he packed everything be
longing to her into the bed tick and
brought them down to the same place
and buried them. During the confess
sioL the wretch tainted. Having some
what recovered, he proceeded to de-
scribe the place where he had concealed
her, but it soon became evident that
even with this help it would be almost
impossible to find the place. Hayes
after some time, agreed to go to the
! spot and point it out, provided the
chaplain went with him, and that the
police would allow none of the country
people to gorear him. The prelimina-
ries having been arranged, "a covered
car was procured, and the prisoner,
with chaplain and a constable, pro-
ceeded to the Gairos. The prisoner,
having reached the part of the bog
where the body was disposed of, made
the carriage stop and the police got
down. Hayes then pointed out the
place to the police, but it was at such a
distance that it was found impossible
to find the exact spot unless he could
be induced to go himself, which, after
some persuasion he consented to do,
and, closely;accompanied by the chaplain,
he ClObScu S0NcIdl 0Idlnos anu btdfCLCCtl
good deal of ground until he came
to small gangway across a drain which
had been recently cleared up, and then
he stopped, and raising his haggard
face and lack-lustre eyes to heaven, he
pointed to the place, exclaiming, BE
fore God, there she is. -
The spot was most cunningly select
ed, and as the wretched man himself
said, twenty Thousand men could not
find it unless he went himself" The
police having procured spades and SHOW
els, set to work with a will, the prisoner
directing them to keep where they
found the bog soft, and not to cut any
fresh ground. After dipping about
three feet below the surface of the sur
rounding bog, the police laid bale the
ticken of the bed. The prisoner, who
showed evidentsi signs of faintness, sew
eral times throwing himself on the
ground to recover himself, was taken
away to the covered car and brought to
the town. The bed tick was first ex-
humed, and on being opened, display
ed most heterogeneous collection OF
articles-indeed, everything that belong
edto her in the house. The sack was
next brought to the bank. 1t was sew
ed at the mouth, and on being opened,
the slippers which she wore came out.
A smoothing iro1 was also in the
mouth of the sack. 1t was evident that
she had been thrust into the sack head