Star. — 1820-04-22 (London, England)

OUTRAGEOUS MURDER.—As wanton and barbarous a murder as has ever been beard of, was perpetrated on Saturday afternoon, between thetours of two and three o'clock, on the Naas road, at a place called King's-wood, about six miles from Dublin. A boy of about twelve years of age; named Bryan Reilly, the son of a carpenter in the employment of Arabin, Esq. left his fathez's house with a pitcher of milk, and was going along the road to the place of his destination, when a soldier, armed with his musket, &c. was passing in the same direction, and the boy, being at the distance of five perches from him, turned round to look at him, when, shocking to relate, the soldier levelled his musket and fired at him ; the ball entered his head at one ear and came out at the other ; he instantaneously dropped a lifeless corpse. The wretch went up to the body, and finding that he had committed murder, looked around him to see whether arm were any witnesses of his crime; and, perceiving a young woman, he deliberately loaded his musket, knelt down upon one knee, and took aim at her; but fortunately she escaped into el house, which she entered and closed the door; there was also another witness, a pedlar, named Patrick Bacon, who also hid himself. The murderer then turned back, and as soon as he was at sufficient distance, the young woman, whose name is Mary Pidgeon, alarire.d the neighbourhood, and immediately the country people assembled, and, headed by that very active Excise officer, Mr. J. Fitzgerald, belonging to the Tallaght wall:, pursued the ruffian, who, when he found them closing on him, repeatedly presented his musket, as if ready to fire at the first that came near him. During this proceeding one of the countrymen, having got in his rear, knocked him down, when he was instantly disarmed and secured, and Mr. Fitzgerald, with the assistance of the country-people, brought him to Clondalkin, before J. Harkness, Esq. a Magistrate of the County, who, havingtaken the informations of Mary Pidgeon and Patrick Bacon, committed him to the county jail, Kilmainham. A Coroner's Inquest has been held on the body, when a verdict of liiitfid Murder was returned against the prisoner. He will Be tried at the next Commission, which commences the 24th June.  1 Thursday night, some villains broke into a new building belonging to WILLIAM MOORE, Esq. of Bow Common-lane, Bromley, and cut the glass out of fourteen large sashes, which they carried off, together with some carpenters' tools. Wednesday evening, about half a dozen villains, dressed as mechanics. went to the public-house at the corner of 7door-street. Seven-dials, and pretended they wailed to look at the clubroom, as they were about to form or remove a club' there. The young couple who kept the house, had been there but a few weeks, and they being glad of an opportunity of increasing their business, the fellows engaged the room, which is nest the landlord's bed-room. They called for porter and pipes, and the boy of the house waited upon them. Soon .after twelve o'clock they paid their reckoning and left. The landlord having made his fastenings good, went up stairs to go to bed, when he found the door of his room which he left locked, open, and his drawers and trunks ransacked of £Bo' and upwards, a watch, and other 1 articles.