Ireland.
The Times, 1824-08-31T00:00:00

yr roin miCe iubaln F77 eenp-w' n .......7s 1 Ceit(lty, on :lnlonrty, six uintbrtuflate men wets convicted of the enrduer of Mr. Ilarum, which excited so great a sensation wrven it occurTed. The trial lasted 16 li hours, three andl a half of which the Lord Chief Justice (who presided) occupied in clharging thc jury and recapitulating the evidenice, from 113 pages of notes. Ixs T,crdship was upwards of IG3 hours on tUe benen. The vertlict was returned, and sentence of de;th passed, at eight o'clock on Tuesday morning. The scene was awful beyon(d any tiing which has occurred in that cowtity for many years. The lollowing is an abstract report of the trial alluded to On Monday, (the 23d instaut,) this inost important trial came on before t Ie lord Chief Justice, in the Couinty Cotrt-house. Kilkenny. \'c have ample notes of' the proceedings, bitt find ourselves qtuite unable to transcribe tiieni for the press this tlay, even it' our previousi arrangements had left space far the re- port. '1 he persons chatged1 with tHis atrocious oflence were AI/ic.'l f?ampion, Ho/li i Marsholl, Patrick Whrlan, Thomaes 1Sos, Ifillam Ir,7hrlan, and Williamn Deahny. They refused to join in their challenges, an(i Ca-ipion was put t'orward alone. After he had ihanlengetl his quantum, and a numnber had been set aside by the Grown, a verv respectable jurv was sworn, hv whom the rcst of the prisoners then agreed to be tried. The miserable nmen were given in charge by 10 o'clock on Alondny, and the jury did not retire until onc o'clock on Tuesday morning. The patience anti inmpartialitv of tie le:arned Jtidge, his anxiety ttu unravel the mystery, and to ascer- taii th?e trutll, luring the wlhole o.f this protracted and tatiguing trial, was higily honionirable to the Irish Bernch and,thought we shall not prestume to declare thatt it wlas never eqiualled1, we are sure we can wilth safety saty it never was surpassed, iF alny stilalL;r case on the other side of ?he Channel. Every prisoner hadi bis ali1n witnesses and, what was to us a novelty, oite of then, brought forward three witnesses to prove that the iniorilner *vas iltttoceltt of the mtirsier with which) he accused himselt' and the prisonlers, atid that lic was idIling at Kilkenny, 1G miies front the fatal scenle, at, ani for dalys before an.ti iftcr, the time it was conimitted. About 11 o'clock p. nm. the Lord Citief Jltti(e began to vutn up the evidence. His prel iitlinary remarks were eloquent, tbrcible, andtl Ucid. He had not gone over the whole of the evi:1ence before ore o'clock, anid lie waited on the bench till a quarter tiast two, whelt, the jure ilot being agreed as to two of the prisoners, he retired. At eilh;t o'clock he returtrect to the judgment-seat. and the jutrv were tailed out, when they gave in a verdict of Gu/illy against adl the prisoners. The scente in the crowdedl court n,ow surpassed any tlii,tg we had ever witnessed. A gretl number of women anti some men began to cry alotid, clapping tiheir handts and tearing their altir at the s.ame time. anttpionl amid Marshall turned about atiti cast gtn indignant look oni the Inouriters. When the Ch.el'.Justice began hiis solemn and aflecting addreFs, it produced a temintrary calm, bhit when he Put ot the black cap 1o pronounce sentence of deatih, the screechittg and loud hysteric sobbing werreteowedl. Tt,e ulihappy men are to be executed to-morrow (Thursday last, 26th inst.) iutGaln-oy, ott the spot whiere they committeed thlt tireadftil critne witici has brought tiettii to a pretiature andl ignominious end. Their boeiea are to be brought back to the Countyllospital to he dissectedandi anatonmized. Sorme oftlihein exclaimed " lnnoce-nt." Oe ca.lled tor " a lonig day," ttnd one of then, tltrew his hiat indittantlv froio Itini to the ground. The crowd ruslied out of' court as the pr;soners descended throughl the dock, and the loud and terrilic symnptottls of affliction werc doubly manifested il the street, and till they passedi up Jaimes's- street (the entraice of whiich was guarded against die naultitude) to the cottnty gaol. The oldv indifferent personls were the prisotiers. CI,ON,MFL ASSIZES, AUG. 1f. Wmn. Lavr,y was put to thie bar, clargcil with the murder of Pa- trick Flynit, on the thi of August last. It ap)eared in evidetice that tile 'eceasect asid prislner l:ztd had a quarrel, taid that tie lat ter came behin,d his victim whilstslandring at a (loor, felled him to tite grouind withi a blttdlScon, Favagely repeated the blow, and the de- ceased, in conseltuence, expired in the course of the following night. The jury, after a perspiceolis chiarpe trom the learned Jutige, in tie course of which he remarked on tite barbarity of thic prisoner, and intimated, that shiould the jury return a verdict of rian- gaufhtcr, be wtull ptunish the crimiie with thc titmost severity of Ac aw, gave in tile lssue, wttchn was-mlanstainangior OJ tot 7t9'rs. dese, iption. Hi. Lotrdship then aIdressed the prisoner :_-" I thiink (sail hiis lAordship) that tihe verdict just retumettd as as merciful ti one as I ever recollect; and I do itot hesitate to say that the jUTy would have beeti perfectly warrnuited in returning averdictof wiltal ntr- dee, in which case I should have sentenced yotu to be executted the day after the iiorrow, without tie most distant hope of mtiercy. 'ou proceedled to one of titose fairs in this country which are mntae tite scenes of outrage anli dhisturba.e rather than places o' business, as tlie shouild be, and thierc, with a shocking instrument strick your victiot in the mlost saniguiniary manner three blows with your hands. A more unprovoked snd clcndalaous outrdge itever oc- citrre(l. Again I say, if tictjury had returnted a verdict of ioLtrder, I wotld have senttesteed yotn to be exectittel. without hiope of mercy. As it is, ioo nust be transported Ibr life." The prisoner heard his fate antioutlcttl witilout the Icast emotion. liARBAnRUos M; aRDFR.-rOn Sii,iday nighit (22d inst.) a ll]ait tlamied Richard Co ter, tenant to Savage IPrench, Esq , was murder- ed, under circunIstances tihe inost lamentable. It appears that five lten, all relations, hadl assenibled at a public-house in the vicinage of Cove, where titey continued till 12 o'clock, wheti the deceased sie- parated fron the cotilpany, anid ivetit hlome: it was observed by one o)f thc party that lie hlad a bottle of' whisky in one of lits coat pockets, wliich cirutlmstalce was availed ot' as a pretence to visit litti; accordingly iiey e went, and havilig rapped at the dleor, de- it anded that thie widsky migtht be shiarel, but this weas peremtpto rile ref'used ott whici t Iey burst in thedoor, pullcd the utifortunate Man out on the road, atit in t11i most savage matiner dashed large stones on his hteai, antI jumped on Ilis belly, until his bowels were t,teced out( atirl he 'wa then tiurowis into a dlitelt. The ruthfians who et ttet? tilts bIrbarotis act have not since beci seen, but we hiope the exertions whicht are makittg by the mlalgistrates will be attended with effect. Since writintg thte above, we have learnet that a person named T'womey, otle of the party, has suirren(deredt htimself, anti atfor(led sucth inloeimatiott to a beocl otf magistrates who sat ott Aonday at Cove, to investigate the transaction, as will no doubt lesh to the discovery of the other three. An inqucst was ott Tuesdav held at Cove,biut we have not yet heard the resrmlu.-Cork .Sontheern, Reporter. 'riTE Si'ENaCgRs' CASE.-In none of the reportA of this ease which have aliteared in tihe newspapees has any in'imatoitl b^en given of the probable motives whicil actuatel the niurderer in the perpetration ot' this horrid critne. The following miay supply the deficienc ..- A mttrder of a very bteinous nature was committed some time since in tite teighbourluood of l,oughgall. A person named Spencer who ivas an attorpey, but who has lately been in a state of lutnacy, ad roarrieti ngaitist the inclinationts of his relations. Although trsane, not residleitt with his wife, and only six years marr.ed, Vet it appears sThe has hadi in the cottrse of that titne three children by lill. lleans were alwetys founti by whirl, they eatne together. The eIdest child, it appears, would have been, at his father's death, entitled to a handsome pc perty * we have hearti it state(I atI 4001. it-year. In Mlay last, the house of i'irs. Spencer was torcibly entered by a man also naimted Spencer, but wl,at connexion to the family we know not. lie tieliberately proceedetl to smurder the child, anid also a servant womats in the house; and woulsd most likely have treated .Mrs. Spencer b a similar tslantier, hndi she not affnctetle her escape. H-Ic was at!ended outside by two females ! Sipencer, and the two ilissea Spencer, were tried for this niost savage crime at the late Assizes. lHe wns foittid r uilty; and has been exe- cuted. The females were actuu'tted.... Dali/in Freetntau,'s .innIurl. IRFI-4.AD. _ ASSIZE INTEJ,I,IGENCE. CONVICT1ON OF SIX AMUrlDEREtS.