Horrible Murder.
The Times, 1824-03-25T00:00:00

untIe Ula we imagine, wflen we penned the article for our last in reprobation of the protection afforded to an armed ruffian, and ,n avowed murderer in Galnmot, that a horrible acsassination would be perpetrated in that ill- ated barony, before the parazraph was printed off at press. The gentleman to whose melancholy fate we allude was a Roman Catholic, and his murder afibrds a singular illustration of the principles of NWrhitebeyismn. He dared to extend his possessions, in despite of that system, of numerous tireatenings, and of several attempts on his life, but the inimediate cause of his assassination is said to have been his having latelv taken some land formerly held, for more than a century, by a Protestant family, whose present representative, we are told, is an Orangeman ! Tric following is an extract of a letter from Galmoy . Galmoy, Mfarclh 18, 1824. " About seven o'clock on the evening of Tuesday last, as John AMarum, of lount Stopford, Esq., accompanied by his son Edmond (whose marriage you so lately announcedl), wvas returning, by the Wirke road, from a house he had lately built at Rathpatrick, to their dwelling at White's-wall, in this barony, he was, within half a mile of the latter place, way-laid and tfred on by a party of ruffians, who were concealed behind a hedgc, at a sand-pit. The son, being nearest the ditch, received most of the charge (which wasA'nipe-slhot) on the side of Iiis face and head. His horse immediately ran off, by which means, most probably. his life was saved. He, however, lost his scaton the satddle, andrl hung by the stirrup-leather until he canie to a cabin, when he extricated hiimself, and went into it for protection. On the shot being fired, the father's horse, it is supposedl, plunged and threvr him, or that he was knocked off by the blowof a stone, ol which the sanguinary villains leapt the ditch and most barbarouslv murdered him. He received five desperate bayonet wounds in the region of the heart, ome cut at the back of the neek, and his skull was literally broken to pieces. Two or three grains of the shot fronm the blunderbuss were also lodged in lbis shoulder. He had riot been abroad - "r sunset betore fbr several years, nor dluring the same pe- riod, unW that day, had he travelied without pistols. " On Icaving thenew house, Mlr. Marum directed his servant-boy to go to M'hite's-wall before hiRi, to announce tiat they were coming home. The boy having observeti some persons suspiciously assem- bled near the road, doubled his speed towvards honie and havitg ar- rived there, obtained his master's pistols, and returned with them hoping to meet hini; but, unfortunately, Mlr. Marum and his son had takeii another road, milthough iMlr. Illaruin had told his servant he would go home by that which the boy had traced in the hopes of meeting his master. " On tlhe night of the murder, the police searched several houses in the inimediate neighbourhood of the tatal spot, and in the cabiH of a man niamed Delaney they got a blunderbuss whiclh appeared to have been very reccntly discharged, and whiclh was broken acrgss the but-end, .ust at the guard. It answers the description given bv voung Mr. Alaruin who distinctly saw the piece levelled by which he was wounded. In another house they apprehendetd a mali naimsed Keffe, rith whom was found a threateninguotice, which lie attempt ed to swallow, but one of the police very opportunely gave him a punch in the bac with the bitt-end of his piece, which knocked the paper out of the fellow's mouth. He is at preseit in custody. " A few nights since, two other nost inflammatory tlreateniDg notices werc posted on the doors of two houses in this barony. " On Alondthv niglit, a house near this town, on the Spa-hiOl, wras maliciously burned to the ground, and the unfortunate innmates only escaped destruction through the clementcy of one of the incendiaries. "Unfortunately, we have no magistrates in this turbulent barony, and as for our police magistrate, we have very seldom the benefit of his presence. An inquest was held yesterday. It was adjourned to this dy, so tbat I amn not able to send you the result." The inquest WaS adjourned to yesterday at Jobnstown. Several rather sluspicious characters have been arrcsted by the police; but we have not learned that the atroIous deedof blood hasheertbronght bomse te any of them. Under the skilful attentions of Dr. Purcell, of this city,who reached White's-vwall at five o'clock on the merning of the 7th, Mr. E.1i1arum is, we are happy to say, in a fair way of recovery. Since writing the above, we have obtained a copy of the verdict. After a close investiFation of two days, the jury, which was highly res ectable. returneo_" 'Wilful Mlurder against persons unknown." e are deeply grieved to have to state, that another murder was perpetrated in this county, on the same day, and in an adjoining barony. No correspondent has furnished us with the particulars of this melancholy ease; but we learn, that Edward Long, a process- server, residing in Callan, went out on that day to distrain, urlder a decree, for tithes, obiained nine months aDo against a farmer of the name of Delaney, since deceased. He seized soiins cattle belonging to the deceased's son, but was set upon by a mob who rescued the cattle, compelled him to swallow his decrees, anA beat him so un- mercifully, that though lhe wasable to crawl into Kilmanagh, he ex- pired the&next (Thursday) morning. Captain Barry, of the Iverk police, sent into the countv gaol, yesterdav afiernoon, twvo prisoners, one of whom is committed a an accomplice in tbe atrocious butchery of the Sheas, and the other under circumstances wlhich require silence ?br the present.-Leinster Jouirnal. HORRIBLE M[URDER. KILKENNY, AMAnci! 20.