The Sun. — 1846-03-16 (London, England)

IRE - ND. FRIGHTFUL MU S IN TIPPERARY. DUBLIN, MARCH ll. tots have been received this morning of two most shoe ,e, murders perpetrated in the Northern Riding of Tipperary. One of them is thus described by the Tipperary Vindicator :—" We regret to have to record the barbarous murder of an industrious man named James Keane. who resided at Gurttnore, within a few miles of Nenagh. It appears that on the night of the sth inst., as the unfortunate man was proceeding in the direction of his home, he was met on the eoa.4, at Tullaheady, by three infuriated demons, who, with savage vengeance, rushed on their victim, felled him to the eyouni, and inflieted a fatal wound on the left side of the head. The heartless miscreants decamped, leaving him almost a lifeless corpse on the road side. The unfortunate man endeavoured to make the best of his way home, where he languished under the most excruciating pains from, the effect of the wound until Sunday, the Bth inst., when death put an end to his torture. No cause has been assigned for the perpetration of this horrible deed. An inquest was held on Sunday, on view of the body, by Michael Carroll, Eeq., coroner, when a verdict of wilful murder was returned against some person or persons unknown." The Nenagh Guardian says—" Deceased held 24 acres of land, under Mr. Tuthill, and has left a wife and six children, the eldest of who is only twelve years old. We understand that he was a rotative of the Rev. Mr. Magrath, P.P., of the Silvermines. 'A man named William Fogarty, whom deceased named as one of the party who attacked him, has been taken into custody." The Tipperary Vindicator gives the following account of the second murder :—" On Sunday night a party of men, consisting of six in number, one armed with a pistol, entered the house of a man named Mean, of Gurtavalla, within half a mile of Cloghjordan. They first knocked Meara down with a stone, inflicting a deadly wound. They thenewith savage ferocity, struck him on his head until his brains were dashed out. The yard was full of turf mould, and from the appearance of his body it is supposed that they trampled on him. A finger and thumb on his right hand were broken i there was a large fracture on the back of his head, one on his crown, where the brains protruded, four on his face, and his forehead presented a shocking appearance. Two sous and two daughters were in the house at the time. This foul deed was cenuelitted between heees of seven and eight o'clock, and within k It* iaids of another house; but ties is the shrieks of the inmates were heard, no one came to their assistance. Meara's family consisted of his wife, two sons (one of them a grown man, the other a boy), and two daughters, who were in the kitchen atthe time the partywere beating the father. The son attempted to get to the father's assistance, but was held by the mother. He, however, succeeded in getting away from her, but when he did they were going away. The number of Meara's assailants were six. Meara is father to the man that killed Kennedy on last Patrick's day, on his return from the fair at Borrisokane. Seven men have been arrested for this murder."