The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-06-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF THE TWO MEN FOR SHOUTING AT A SOLDIER. At the commission of Oyer and feminist in Dublin, on Saturday, Patrick Kearney and Richard Dowling, alias Lalor, having been put forward, Dowling was toe dieted with having, on the 21st of April, discharged a loaded pistol at a soldier named James Mears, with intent to murder him. There was a second meet in the indictment charging the prisoner with the intent to do Mears grievous bodily harm. Another count charged him with aiding and &bottle g Kearney. Patrick Kearney, whose name appeared in the same bill of indictment, was put back for the present. The principal evidence was that of the soldier, James bleant, who said : "I was in Exchange-court on the evening of the 21st of April. I met the prisoner on the quay at the Four Courts. I had met the prisoner before at Fenian meetings. I was a Fenian myself. I had always known the prisoner by the name of Lalor. I went with him to lioey'n public-house, at the rainier of Bonham-street. lie told me there would be some riflemen there. He asked me what I would drink, and I had some porter, for which he paid. I had some conversation with the prisoner. I asked him about a man named Baines. Baines was a Fenian ' head.oentre.' The prisoner went oat on two occasions, and returned after a fere seconds each time. The second time he came bask be said it was time to be going. He went oat as if to go out of the house through the glass door by the front door, and I was going out by the side door; and when I was in the act of opening the aide door leading into Bonham.street I saw Kearney coma through the glass door into the spirit shop. lie made a circle as if he was going into the back yard, and he turned short and fired at me. I had just then turned my head sideways. I maw him firing the shot. Ile was then within a yard and a half of me. My back was to him, but I had my head turned. He had a pistol in his hand. When he fired the, shot I made a jump to the glass door, and got Out through it. The shot took affect in my left ear and wounded me. I got into the shop and made a rush out into the street, and, as I was getting out into the street, the prisoner Dowling, who was in the shop with his back to tho counter, fired at me and wounded me in the two first fingers of the left hand. I got out into the street, and as I was getting out of the door several shots were fired—none of them took effect on me, butt heaxcl a man who was in the shop ory out, "Oh, icy God." There was no person that I could see that could have fired that shot but Dowling. I sew the flash of the shot. It came from the direction Dowling was in, but I saw no pistol with him. Kearney was in the rear at the time. There was another man whom I do not know was in rear of me at the Rises-door. After being fired at in the shop I got out into the atreet and ran up in the direction of Thomas. street, and several shots were fired in the direction I was going. One of the shots struck me in the thigh, and came out at the knee, and wounded me. I saw a man following in the street, fixing crossways. I met a policeman in Thomas-street, and reported the °imamstanee to him. He did not seem to believe we. I then went down to the detective-offiee and reported the circumstances. All the witnesses for the prosecution having been examined, and the judge having oharged the jury, Dowling was acquitted to the surprise of every one in courts