The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-12

THE CRIME OF FRANCIS HYNEs, fHE lRlsl
uuRpERER. WHO WAS HUNG YESTERDAY.

THE CRIME OF FRANCIS HyNEs, fHE IRlsf
MURDERER, VINO WAS HUNG YESTERDAY.
Francis Hynes, who was executed yester
tiay at Limerick, Ireland, was mere boy
in wears. He and his brothers had long
been famous as cross-country riders, and At
tended all the meets OF hounds and harriers,
besides taking part in steeple-chases with
gentlemen riders. The father OF the family
was a solicitor, having the agency OF many
estates. and some time ago he became en-
gagged TO marry a rich widow. While pre-
Drations were being made for the we'd
ding, the widow having already transfer
red some Of her property 10 his keeping,
he married a singer OF third-rate position,
whom he had met in q Dublin concert-hall.
He lived extensively for time, but ulti-
mately separated from his wife and left the
country, his departure being accelerated
by the finding Of indictments against him
for forgery.
The elder Hynes had numerous family
OF sons and daughters. who, during these
peculiar proceedings Of their father, re-
manned at their old home, Toureen, near
Ennis. The farm which surrounded it was
OF considerable extent, and the young men,
thrown upon their own resources so uneX-
pectedly, did their utmost to conduct ii
profitably. Previously their expensive
tastes had been literally provided for out
OF their fathers income, and the farm YVES
not even expected to produce enough to
pay the rent, much less to keep up the
establishment. The result was that they
fell into arrears with the landlord, and in
the course OF events were eyicted. John
Dolougherty was put into possession As
herdsman, and, having disregarded all
warnings to leave, was at last shot and
killed.
Hynes was tried in August before Judge
Lawson, at Dublin, under the provisions OF
the new observation-disclosures act. For
the defence, an attempt was made to prove
that the accused was drinking at public
house, in company with three OF four men,
from O'Clock until the time Of bis arrest,
and could not have been at the place where
Dolougherty was shot at 2 o'clock, as it
was mile distant But the witnesses for
the defence contradicted themselves, and
so the dying statement OF the victim fixed
the crime on young Hynes.
The trial terminated on August 18th in a
verdict OF guilty, the jury remaining out
about an hour. Judge Lawson thereupon
sentenced Hynes to be hanged OH Septem-
Der 18th. Ex-Lord Mayor Gray was after
wards punished for contempt OF court in
publishing letter charging the jury that
tried the case with being drunk and dlsor-
derly on the night previous to the day on
which their verdict was rendered. The iu-
rors denied this, and the only explanation
OF the alleged disorder was that one of
the number in passing along the
corridor to his room without a
light accidentally tumbled into a
bath-tub, which was placed there to keep
the Jury within certain bounds. This acct
dent, and the amusement it caused to the
other jurymen, caused some disturbance,
but there seems to have been no drunken.
ness. All the efforts to convince Earl Spen-
Ger, the Lord Lieutenant, that Hynes was
improperly convicted, or to secure the re-
lease OF Mr.. Gray from prison, have failed.