Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1882-08-26 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ANOTHER MURDER IN IRELAND.  Another horrible murder was committed at one o'clock on Monday morning at Scarleen, near Killarney, on the rereon of a respectable farmer named Daniel Leahy, ate bailiff on the Kenmare estate. He was dragged from his bed by a party of disguised men, who fired several allots, killing him on the spot, The following particulars are given :  Leahy was an aged man, and had a large and respectable family. He was formerly employed as a driver or rent warner on the estate of Lord lienmare, but had given up that position in order to turn his attention to the cultivation of the several farms which he and members of his family possessed. It doss not appear that in the discharge of his duties as rent warner he became an object of popular enmity or dislike; on the contrary, those who knew him describe him as a good-natured sort of man, never inclinsd to 'aarshness or unfair dealing. Leahy was in Killarney on Sunday, and returned home at eight o'clock. There were in the house his son John, his daughter Minor'', and his wife, together with three male sarvarits. His son shortly after wards left the house to visit his brother-in-law, Daniel Daly, who resided a Mile away. The household went to bed, leaving the door unlocked till the return of the young man. The husband and wife were sleeping on the ground Moor in a room off the kitchen, and the daughter and servants upstairs. Mrs. Leahy, while awake, awa,ting the return of her sou, heard a person enter the kitchen and in a peremptory manner order her husband to get out of bed. In a few moments men entered the room and dragged Leahy out of bed. Mrs. Leahy estimates the number of marauders at between twelve and fifteen. They were fully armed, but undisguised. One man, who spy eared to be the leader, ordered her husband to be pia( ad on his knees in the kitchen, and addressing his ollowers tailed on "No. 1" to fire. Despite tk efrantic efforts of the wife, who placed hersei„ between the doomed man and the assassins, the order was obeyed, and Leahy was badly wounded. The captain then called on "No. 10" to advance, and another shot was fired. "No. 14" was then summoned and hie wee the last shot fired, though a bayonet-thrust was made at Us, prostrate old man. Miss Leahy, leaning over the staircase, asked the wretches to desist, but the person in command only replied with a brutal threat a3sinst her MA We. VI :11 the 213 .ttiailld hal  tlnuthed their work they searched for young Leah Fortpnately he had not returned from hie brother it law's house, and they took their departure. Mn Leahy then went away in the dark across the fields ani brought Assistance. When the medical man 'and th priest arrived Leahy was dead.  The funeral of Mr. 'Leahy took place on Tuesday and an Immense assemblage of the people of the die trict attended, a proof that he was net unpopular The deceased never kept any firearms in his house, and from this circumstance it is thought he had In , apprehension of danger. About twelve months Iry Mr. Leahy resigned the position of rent-warner or the Keninare estate, and this possibly induced thi opinion that he had no need to dread violence. Mr S. M. Hussey, azent to Lord Kenmare, said of him that a mote inoffensive and upright man did not live In the county Kerry '