The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-28

threw her body into the river. And II
was one OF the hotel servants, girl
named Ellen Walsh, that enabled the jury
10 identify the body" According to one
account that still survives in Kilrush, the
servant girl identified the colleen by her
red bodice, the only garment on the re-
mains when they were washed ashore.
This differs from the generally accepted
story-that the servant girl identified the
colleen dresses, which were found in the
possession Of Danny Mann's (Sullivan's)
relatives, and also that she had noticed
slight protrusion Of two OF the colleen's
upper teeth, and that on examining the
mouth the jury found that the formation
OF the jaw exactly correspondent to the
witness description. "Pat did not know
whose the body was2" ''No," replied
Mike ''There is story that the body
was found by two fishermen" There
might have been another man with Pat
O'Connell, but Pat was there all the
same
Though in the popular accounts oil the
story there are are differences in details OF
the foregoing description, the personal i'm
preston left by the Colleen Bawn" is
singularly definite and lasting. To hear
the popular descriptions OF her fair, short
hair, sweet smile, beautiful, though almost
childish figure, (her age being less than
sixteen), frank manners, and all the rest,
one would imagine that poor Ella O'Con-
nor walked the earth but yesterday; and
vet these generations OF Kilrushians have
| followed the Colleen TO the other world
since the date OF her two days visit. But
| let us pay our pilgrimage TO the Colleen's
| Tho In IN Iha old ahnrph-
yard OF Burrane pronounced Borawn),
| looking the Shannon. "You will find ii
found her." said Mike, as VIC drove of.
The old churchyard Of Burrane is
| Just like every other place Of the kind in
lreland--a slovenly, confused heap OF
tombs, crosses, dock leaves, nettles, and
other refuse, the tombstones being, as a
rule, placed close TO each other-alm0st,
il not quite, edge to edge. In the middle
Of the ground stands the old church, roof
less, but with both gables in more or
less dilapidated state Of preservation, and
also with rents and gaps in its gray walls,
as II the ghosts OF dead sherlis were
pounding at 1t dead o nights with great
battering rams where's the Colleen
| Dawn \ grnNtF We Call Out W lllc Couutl
man who is driving past at sleepy pace,
seated on the shaft OF his cart. owe can
find it; do you know how2' "Shure an
/ do. The Colleen is buried beside ould
Pat Connell; I'll show ye." And he
clambered OF the shafts and came
trudging up among the nettles. ''TherC
she lies" pointing with whiT
handle, "and that's all that's lefI
OF the cross that Mr.. Reeves
erected over her grave" / had heard Of
this gross and selfish piece OF vandalism
before, which no amount OF human fellow
feeling for the Inflated Colleen car
atone for. OF the large Irish cross OF hard
blucstonc only fragment OF the base re-
mains-and what there is OF the base i
Clipped down TO the ground level trus
no vandal may DO tempted, in his dcspera
ton, to dig up the foot or 80 OF il whicent
still underneath. Chips Of the Coles il
monument have been carried away by Wis
itors from Australia, from Canada, from
India, from all parts Of America.