Murder Near Nenagh.
The Times, 1824-10-06T00:00:00

*. aru 5is a report in mown to-aay, tnat a seggeant and two privates of the 62d Regiment, on their march to an ou-post on the Upper Shannon, were deprived of their artns near Nenagh yesterday, by a gant; of ruffians, who murdered the sergeant, and beat the others in a frightful manner. We have not been able to learn the partigularm Since writing the above, we have been favoured with the following statement of facts from a most respectable gentletnan in the neigh- bouThood wherethemurder wascommitted .--"Seeant Dowd, of the t32dRegiment,commanding a small detachmentof soldierson theShan- non, about six miles from Nenagh, on returningto his barrackon Tues- day evening, about eighto'clock,went into a public-house on the road- side with two of his men, and called for a little beer. There were four or five countrymen, who had been to Nenagh with cars, sitting in the houae when the sergeant went in; someconversation tookplace between one of the countrymien (aperson of the name of Kennedy), and a soldier, Kennedy saying e liked the soldiers, and damned the police; the soldier made some rema-k in favour of the police when tke countryman stood up to strike him; on wohieh the sergeant said that he would not allow his party to be Insulted, and that he would inform the police, and have them all taken up under thec Insurrection Act in the m}torning, and instantly ordered his men to their barrack. On the soldiers leaving the house, thecarmen alnmost immediatelygottheireafaready, and followedinthesamedirection ; on their coming up *vith the sergeant and his two nien (oneof whom was 50 or 60 paces behind), tke men leaped dowt off the cars, and coming behiind the sergeant in the dark (it being then between nine' and tea o'clock), they knocked him down, on which Quin the sol. dier, ran up to assist the sergeant, and was himself knocked down. The sergeant got lip anti ran towards the door of a house and knock- ed, to try and save himself from his pursuerc, bat wAs not admitted; Quin ran towarnls another house, but could not get in, end on going up towards the house wisleca he sawr the sergeant knocking, he found bim lying on his face on the road speechless. The other sol. dier, Coleman, who was ini the rear when the sergeant was first knocked down, wras, at the same instant struck with the but-end of a whip: and on another of the countrymen coming up, he said," '1 hat is Coleman, don't strike him" (Colemes is a native of that country); but, hovever, after some struggle, they succeeded in forcing his bayonet from the scabbard, and after striking him violently with it two or three times, they ran on towards the place where the sergeant was, and gave him a desperate stab between ithe fourth and fifth ribs, and which penetrated to the heart, besides a severe cut onk the head, The soldier, in- stantly on his nmurderers leaving him, carried the sergeant into a house, when he almost instantly expired, but never spoke. Great praise is du!e to the detachment of polic stationed at Kilbaron, for their exertions in securing three men, who are fully identified, and a coroner's jury haye found against them a verdict of WiJ)I Maftr. der. They have been fully consniitted for trial. One of the tmur- derers not taken has fled, hut hopes are entertalnied of his being ap. prehended."-Lirnerick Chronicle. MURDER YEAR NENCGIr. LIMERICK. OT_'r- 9e