The Sun. — 1868-01-24 (London, England)

IRISH TRAGEDY.  The Dublin correspondent of the Post, writing on Thursday, tells the following story :—" A frightful domestic tragedy—happily a rare Occurrence here -- occurred in this city yesterday wording. At about two o'clock a.m. a terrified boy rushed breathless into the Summerhill Policestation, and announced to the officers that his mother had just been murdered by his father. Inspector Freny and Acting-Sergeant Keegan went immediately to the house No. 10, Guildford-place, on the bank of the Royal Canal: On entering the back parlour a horrid scene presented itself to their view. The floor was covered with patches of blood. The furniture was thrown about, and on the bed a woman lay speechless, her face and head shewing marks of great violence, and her body, which was entirely naked, a mass of blackened bruises. Her husband, Peter Reilly, was in the room, and they proceeded to arrest him. He offered some resistance, but was secured. Inspector Freny then had the woman wrapped in a blanket, and carried in a cab to Jervis-strect Hospital, where she received every attention that surgical skill could suggest, but she died about an hour after her admission. The case is a terrible example of the evil results of intemperance. It appears that the unhappy pair had been married for about sixteenyears, but as Mrs. Reilly was a slave to indulgence in drink, their life was an almost unbroken series of quarrels, separations, and litigation. On three or fouroccaairs Reilly i —who is said to be a hard-working and industrious man, a cooper by trade, and earning a decent income—had brit obliged to separate from his erring wife, allowing her a separate maintenance. She had several times been arrested for being drunk in the streets, and he had been obliged to bring her before the magistrates for making away with his property to procure the means of indulging in her debasing vice. Each separation was followed by a reconciliation, brought about by the intervention of friends, and attended by promises of reformationon her part, made only to be broken. The last reconciliation was effected only a short time ago, but ts uTu e she had no stoner returned to her husband's roof than she r former habits. Reilly himself, distracted by domestic hail Reillylatterly . t become otiml the theatre, edadtircet,e from tooi n drink. oelm ed her s mda7ynrigh t he returned late at night, to find his wife in a state of intoxication. A quarrel arose, which lasted until one o'clock, when he turned upon her, koocked her down by blow of his fist on the head, in the presence of his s 4, Philip Reilly, a boy 13 years ,f age, and kicked her about the head and body in a fearful manner. The unhappy couple have another child, a daughter, 15 years of age, Nv'm is being educated in a convent in the West of Ireland, and was thus spared the anguish of witnessing her niotller':; degradation and miserable end.  the secretary of the English Church Union requests us to announce that the statement regarding the resignation of the presidency 01 that society by the Hon. Cohn Lindsay, and the election to the office of the HonC. L. Woods is wholly iLcoaect, —Poet.