The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-05-15

currencc 10 that; OF q huge policeman, who
So completely 1Oet his cOura&S when the
light Was at its -hottest that he wsiggled
himself for refuge into an empty old sugar
cask: from which. the cooper who owned it,
on discovering who lay perdu, elected him
without the cosrtesy Of q .moment's notice,
upon the scene of Mhorrid war"
A,vest Of A Bory of the Hills:-A cor
respondent Of the Express, writing from
Killarney ON Monday evening, says !" Yes
terday morning, acting upon the infOrma-
ton supplied by two country women living
beyond Headfort, that a man of suspicious
appearance and threatening aspect and
had been lettering on the railway line, be-
tween Headfort and Shinagh.. Constable
Cunning and Sub Constable LewiDgs of
this station, proceeded on an outside car as
far as HeadfOrt in pursuit of him. For a
long time. an active search was kept up
through the country, but without success.
Previous to returning to Headfort the con-
stables, however, penetrated into the noun
tain chasms, where, after a well-arraDged
plan, they succeeded in effecting the arrest
of the object of their pursuit in place call
ed the Bower" Having brought him to
Headfort, he was subjected to q close
cality, and was at once identified as the
party who had threatened some of the
people day or two before with what ap
peared to be pistol, and who told them
that he was the Rory of the Hills" Late
last evening he was brought into Killarney
and lodged in Bridewell. where he remains
committed for preliminary inquiry before
the magistrates ut petty sessions, next
Tuesday. When arrested, he said his name
was M'Mahon, and that he belonged to the
county Glare. With, the exception of a
screw which resembles the shape of pistol,
nothing Of the nature of either arms or do
cuments was found in his possession. The
police attach great Importance to his arrest.
His appearance and manner of expression,
as We as he unsatisfactory account which
he has given of himself, are not at all favor
able to che reputed Rory"
The lipperary Murder The question of
guilt or Innocence in connection with the
deed by which the old man, Patrick Kir-
wan, met his death, has been entirely set
at rest by the voluntary confession of John
Gleeson, who had been taken into custody
on suspicion by the police on the day of the
discovery of the body. His account APP
pears to be that he came into the yard and
asked Kirwan to open the gate and allow
him to take away some things which he
had left behind him the day before when
leaving it with his family-but that Kir-
wan refused to allow him to go in, saying
(" would open the gates of hell for you"
An alteration thereupon ensued, and
Gleeson, in his frenzied passion, first felled
old kirwan with pitchfork to the ground,
and then struck him on the head with two
huge stones. If this account of the de- 4
plorable act be actually true, we do not see
how it can properly be brought under the
class of agrarian crime. Yet, the Irish
of the London Times does
hot hesitate to call it, even in view of the
vengeance" and to assume that "a very
slight provocation, if any, was sufficient to
turn upon him the full tide of yengeful |
passion in the breast of Gleason"