The Irish standard., 1903-09-05
daughter of John Killeen, merchant,
ClaremOrriS.
QUEENS COUNTY.

laney had heen murdered by her
brother ut Tarbcrt. Bnllucolla. about
four miles from Mountr;lth, reached
marlborough and caused considerable
sensation. Fortunately the woman is
not dead. though her condition is such
that little hopes are entertained of
hei' recovery. Tarhcrt is a townland
situated about midway between Mary
borough, Mountlutll and AbbcyleiX.
| The people are mainly of the small
farmer class. and among them is
Michael Delaney, who holds about
| lhlrty-twO acres. He is an old man
and hedridden. With him lived his
| daughter Kate. who had married Il
man named Patrick Delaney about
| fourteen months ago. at which time
her father made Il settlement, assign
| ing his farm to her and rcscrving .,
| life interest for himself. This trans
action created Il considerable amount
of Jealousy among the other children,
and brought about rather strained re-
lations among them. a deposition
made by tie injured woman states
| that on the night of August ) her
| brothers Thomas and John came to
| the house. John produced half pint
of Whiskcy and asked her to have
some. lie filled out whiskey in four
glasses and told her to take one to
! the old man. saying. TELL him it's not
| poison: he can fake it," She brought
| back the whiskey which the old man
| had refused: whcreupon John drew Il
revolver and fired three shots at her,
| two of which took effect one entering
under each breast. The woman,
wounded us she WAS, ran to /, neigh
boring labOrCr'S cottage. where DR..
Fisher. Mountratll. and DIR. Stoney.
AhbcyleiN, We're quickly in attendance
and did all that WAS possible for her
| until she was removed to the Abbey
lciN Workhousc hospital. where she
NOW lies. The police promptly arrest
cd Thomas Delaney hut could find no
trace of John until next evening.
when he was arrested in Kilkenny.
He is a man of about 81 years of age
and had been over fourteen years
abroad. principally at sea. Recently
he had been working in Dublin and
birmingham. On August II both
brothers We're remanded for further
| examination.
| SLIGO.
On August II. Il specially convened
meeting of the DromOre West board
Of Guardians was held for the purpose
of electng a clerk of the union in room
OF Mr.. Nj. Doudican resigned. Mr..
L. Tiernan. ]. F.. presided, and there
were tllirty-tive guardians present.
There We're three applicants for the
position-AIr. II. Naughton, who had
| been fulfilling the duties of acting
clerk for the last four years; Mr.. Bar
tholomew Kavanagh, and Mr. Louis ].
Culkin. \ vote was taken, when
| there votcd-For Kavanagh, 13;
| Naughton. -; Culllin, II. Culkin
| then fell out, and on the second bal
lot there voted-For Kavanagh, %;
| Naugllton. ID. Mr. Kavanagh was
| therefore declared elected as clerk of
the union amidst applause. The cec-
| ton of clerk to the rural district
council was next proceeded with.
Mr. John Kelly, ]. j.. presided, and
| the same guardians were present,
Mr. II. Naughton and Mr.. \. j. Dev-
any applied for the position. There
votcd-For Naugllton. 10; Devany, II.
ed.
| NESTME.ATH.
III the -sthlonc police court, OH
August 10. balls were taken for the
appearance of DR. Patrick IIclion Fox.
| who has been returned for trial to the
| winter assiZes on tile charge of shoot
| ing at James Bannon.' Il farmer living
at Aughafin, in the spring of the pres
| ent year. Dr. Fox was to have ap-
peared at the summer assizes but did
not answer the arrangement and "A
| bench warrant was issued for his ar
rest. which was effected the next day.
and the accused was committed to Kill
mainllam Jail. The occurrence in re-
|
spect of which DR.. Fox was charged
arose out Of the taking of a farm and
a dispute OF the passway leading into
it. The necessary bonds were forth
coming.
WICKLOW.
On August Q, Il man named William
Roche. of st. Andrew street. Dublin,
met with a serious bicycle accident
near the Old Connaught road, about
mile and half from Bray. He was
riding down hill at Eallymain, when
he lost control of his machine. A
| motor-cnr ran in front of him from a
cross-road. and in cndcavoring to guide
| ms bicycle by it. Roche ran into the
footpatl and was flung off the ma
chine against the wall. being render
cd inscnsihe. The gentleman driving
the motor-car turned back on seeing
III" occurrence and DR.. Ravcrtv drove
out on the mOtOr-car and dressed q
severe wound on the head of Roche,
who WAS then enabled to proceed to