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The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-05-05 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE PHCENIX PARK MURDERS.  TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF" SKIN-THE GOAT."  Another and an inportant member of the " Invincible" brotherhood was placed upon his trial at Dublin on Monday. last before Mr. Justice O'Brien. James Fitzharrie, 011a8 "Skin-the-Goat," being indicted for the murder of Mr. Burke. It was set forth by the prosecution that the prisoner was one of the actual murderers, but an equal measure of legal responsibility was imputed to him aeati accesory before the crime. Ihe Attorney General, in stating the case for the Crown, detailed the conn.‘ction which had existed between the prisoner and the " Invincibles." Fitzharria, who was  the owner of -a horse and c ir, was in the habit of driving different members of the conspiracy about the city, mid was instrumental in conveying some of them to the places where they lay in wait on several occasions for Mr. Forster. lie it was who induced the informer Smith to join the Society, selecting him apparently for the reason that he was f ,iniliar, from his occupation at the Caste, with Mr. Fors, er's appearance and movements. On the sth and 6th of May the prisoner (hove James Carey and other " Invincibles" into the Phosnix Park, and on the letter day actually witnessed the murders, afterwards driving off at top speed with the assassins to the further aide of the city. Smith in his eviden3e spoke to the prisoner as being the min who persuaded him to enter the conspiracy. Ho was subjected toe severe cross-ex ,mitiation, but his I evidence was not materially affected. I. reply to the p isoner's counsel. Smith said tie expected no pecuniary i eward from the a overnruent, but merely wished to be sent out of the country, adding significantly that " he knew what he would get if he stopped in it." James Carey also repeated his story of the formation and doings of the " Invincibles," and identified Fitzharris as the driver of the car upon which the murderers entered and left the Phoenix Park. The same evening Carey paid him "under a sovereign" tor his services. In crossexamination Carey siid the prisoner was not enrolled as an "Invincible." Peter Carey stated that F.tzhari is had admitted thst ce ea w the murders committed. Other independent witnesses proved that he was in the park with his car immeniately before the crime was discovered. 'File trial was then adjourned, the case for the Crown having  The court resumed on Tuesday morning, Mr., Mclnerney delivering a very ingenious speech in defence of the prisoner. After Mr. Murphy's reply, the Judge summed up. After an absence of something more than twenty minutes, the jury returned, and the foreman irumediateiy announced that they found the prisoner not guilty. The court was greatly surprised, but the judge, by his demeanour, clearly let it be seen that he was neither surptiaed nor disappointed, and, amid a buzz of conversation, one of the Crown counsel requested that the prisoner should be put back. Fitzharris, with a grin or gratitude all over his face, b:mined sound him, and to!led out of the dock. The court was then adjourned.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-01-23 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE IRISH CONSPIRACY.  EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS.  The —magisterial inquiry into the Fenian conspiracy to assassinate Irish Government officials was commenced in Dublin on Saturday, 20 of the 21 men recently taken into custody being placed in the dock. The other man, Bobert Farrell, was put into the witness box. He ssid he had for seven or eight years been a member of the Fenian Brother. hood, and he described various meetings of that society, and the part taken in them by the prisoners. About 18 months ago he had a conversation with Daniel Curley, one of the prisoners, as to becoming a member of the 'inner circle." He told witness that the inner circle was to be composed of the chosen men of the organisation. The business for which the inner circle was to be formed was chiefly to assassinate Government officials. After this Curley told him he was to stop the Chief Secretary's (Mr. Forster's) carriage, and that two other men named "would do the remainder." Witness let the carriage pass, as he did not know it, and then Peter Boyle (a prisoner) said it was all up, and Curley seemed to be vexed over the mistake. The witness described other failures of the murderous design, and was then questicned with a view to its being shown that the Phcenix Park murders and the attempt on the life of Mr. Justice Lawson were crimes as u which overtures had been made to him. He also tol how he received orders to take part in the att tot( o 4 Mr. Field, the Dublin juror, and described the facs of the attempted assassination. "There was," aid the witness, " never an order for assassin ion conspiracy. Joseph Mullett (~ne of the priso rs) was the man who was responsible for his conspiracy." Farrell added that this assassins ion society was established from the Fenian Brotherhood. He grew sick of the business, as he saw it was a sham and delusion, and only good for those who lived by it: fie repeatedly tendered his resignation, and Mullett placed him in his present positien through his threats. The inquiry was adjourned for a week.  KAY'S TIC PILLS, a specific in Neuralgia, Face-ache, &c. so., Is. lid.; postage Id. Sold by Chemists.— Kay Bros., Stockport. KAY'S CONFOUND, for Colds and Coughs. Composition and strength on each bottle. Sold by chemist. Is. lid., 2s. 9d. KAY'S ColssouND OF LINSEED, Aniseed, Senegal Squill, Tolu, etc., with Chlorodyae. 94d., Is. lid., 2s. 6d. KAY'S CosaPousrn, a demulcent expectorant, for Coughs and Colds. Sold by all chemists. 9id. Is. lid., 2s. 9d. A PRECIOUS Girr.—No One will deny that the exotic shrub yielding Pure tea is a precious gift; adding much to our health and comfort. Thousands, use daily Horniman's Pure Tea, because it is strong, rich, delicious, and sold at moderatefixed prices.—Six million packets sold yearly. Horniman Tea in this locality : BARROW, Saissori, 75, Duke-street; CHAPMAN, 122, Church-street; CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, Church-street and Branches. Dalton, GODBY, Bookseller, BLAKE, Bookseller, Cam forth, WOOLSTENCROFT, Chemist. Grange - over - Sands, MACKERETH, Chemist, and at Ulverston. Lancaster,
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-12-04 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE MURDER OF CAREY.  O'DONNELL SENTENCED TO DEATH.. SCENE IN COURT. O'Donnell's trial for the murder of J 41210 Carey ended, on Saturday, in a verdict of guilty, but the length of time that the jury deliberated upon their verdict and their repeated return into court to consult the judge bear ample testimony to the defence that was set up by Mr. Charles Russell, Q.C. The theory, ingeniously propoun&d, was that Carey's identity having become known to O'Donnell, he did not wish to have anything more to say to Carey. here were occasions when he could safely have shot the informer, but the event happened on a Sunday aftern on when there were several persons about The fct was, Mr. Russell argued, that when O'Dot nell wished to out Carey and the latter pressed him for his reason, O'Donnell said he wanted noth'ng to do with an informer. At this Carey sprang un and pro lured a weapon, but O'Donnell was bAore him with his and shot him. The first difficulty the jury had was to decide whether a fatal shot fir d under such circumstances would be murder, aid the judge having at length explained the lsw nu the point they again retired. 'I heir second difficulty was as to the exact meaning of "malice aforethought," and again the judge explained at length. After nearly two hours' deliberation a verdi..t of guilty was arrived at, and O'Donnell not giving any answer to the usual question as to whmb r he had anything to say ehv sentence should not be passed upon him the learned judge sentenced him to death in the usual form. Then a violent scene ensued. The warders, who had closed around O'Donnell, were about to remove him, when he waved them back with hi right hand. "Wait a minute," said he: "My lord, -v I "  . may I apeak f " Not now," was amotint of building going on, to my knowledge, the answer, and already he was being taken away. and in a few months time—in fact before spring- wl.en he broke loose for a moment to wave his anus ;ime—we shall be as busy as ever we were, which above his head. Three cheers for old again vii bring us in a larger amount from the Ireland !" he cried ; "Down with Queen Victoria !" rates than ever Ihen, too, why should not the By this time six or seven powerful men had seized Barrow Hematite Steel Company benefit by the him, and he was struggling violently. "Three reductiofi of gee? Do they not contribute to cheers for America," he went on to cry out. "Curse the rates as largely as anybody? (hear, hear). the Saxons! ' "Down with the judge !" and ;as He prophesied that there would be as much profit he was carried out of the court by force, and before on the gas and water after the proposed reduction the door was shut upon him, he could he heard as there was before. As to meter rents, two pouring forth blasphemies and execrations, of thirds of the towns charged meter rents but it was which it was difficult to catch the exact words, and such a small item that it had not raised a question ; the sound of which was Latently lost as the de= and if there was not so much red-tapeisui about was shut to.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1880-05-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ANOTHER THAMES MYSTERY.  SHOCKING MURDER & MUTILATION.  A fearful crime is now being investigated by the London detective police. Following up the discovery of a human head in the river near Battersea, which occurred on Wedne; day afternoon last, by boys at play, the police directed that search should be made in other parts of the river, and on Saturday morning a man who was at work on the foreshore off Thames bank and near Pimlico pier found a large parcel, which had beet, thrown up by the tide. On opening it he was h Trifled to find that it contained the trunk and arms of a body from which the head and legs had been severed. The body was that of a child about tour or five years of age, and was rolled in several thicknesses of c,rpet. It had a brick attached to it by means of a string, and the whole was done up in br,wn paper and securely fastened. The legs had bLen roughly cut and sawn off by unskilled hands, and it is conjectured by the police that they have formed a separate parcel, which is still in the river. Inspector Shaw, ot the V division, who has the case in hand, on comparing the body with the head previously found (which had been photographed as well as preserved in a glass case for the purposes of identification), ascertained beyond doubt that they were parts of the "same corpse. The head 4ad been severed from the body just at the beginning of the neck, and when found by the boys named Rooke, Sullivan, and Burke, of Little Europaplace, Battersea, it was made up into a sort of round parcel of canvas and brown paper, and contained a brick of an exactly similar description to that attached to the trunk found off Pimlico The police authorities, from marks of violence about the body, as well as from the brutal way it which it has been mutileed, entertain no doubt that a very shocking murder has been committed, but they consider it strange that more care was not taken in the disposal of the parcels. The head must have been thrown into the river from Battersea bridge, and if the act was perpetrated at the time of high water—which seems to be most probable—the depth, no doubt, led the perpetrator of the crime to imagine that the disposal of such an evidence of it would be sure to be safe from discovery. The shocking mutilation of the lower part of the body and the pelvis prevents any certain opinion as to the sex of the victim, but the head of the child has a profusion of fair curls, and the medical examination of Dr. Kempster led to the conclusion that this portion of the remains had n d been in tho water for a period of more than 24 hours. The body and the head have been removed to the Battersea mortuary. Detective-inspectors Shaw and White, who specially have the inquiry in hand, have as yet no clue which may lead to the apprehension of the perpetrator of the crime. It is believed that the I separate parcels containing the remains were thrown into the river at different points a considerable distance apart, and the search for the 1 missing parts of the body is being continued over 1 the shores on either side of the river.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1880-08-24 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE HAILVEST.-111 iy: r sense it is somewhat unprofitable to speculate as to the character of the coming haftest. The F üb,i vct. i , one with respvc, to which Nature is apt to falsify both the most sanguine and the most despondent estimates. But it is Vitally odein.ceimuniteryif:,oistli' ial aLttpuhodes sbbiubuti evf,i.t., important, not only for those who cultivate the s.OI the d this thoys general eeamr who prosperitydrawo uld theirbeo fg ot the resist the temptation to hazard a forecast. The season has hitherto been undoubtedly more favourable than that of last year, and but for the excessive fall of rein in July farmers would have found no ground of has summarised the reports which it has received from . all parts of the country, and it seems that although \ interfered with by the heavy rains of last mo, • the anticipations of farmers have been consid,r !.':  Itheir present expectations are not altogether unfavourable. As might have been expected, wheat promises to be the worst clop of the year. It has suffered extensively from blight and mildew, and as a general rule may be expected to fall somewhat below the average. Still, it is a matter for satisfaction that the great majority of reports predict an average wheat mop, while a number actually anticipate more than an average. This is decidedly an encouraging fact, when it is remembered that the summary of last year showed hardly an instance of an average yield, and not a single instance of a crop above the average. As far as present appearances go, barley is the best crop of the year, and will be somewhat above the average. Oats and beans also promise to show a crop slightly better than usual, while peas fall to a trifling extent below it. These results are of course very rough, and under any circumstances the harvest will vary in excellence according to locality. Still, a general idea can be gathered from the reports as to what the coming ingathering will in all human probability be. It may be rash to forecast the future, but present appearances augur a not unsatisfactory harvest.  The funeral of Lord Stratford de Bedell& took place at Frant on SAturday. Mrs. Charles Kean, widow of the distinguished actor, died on Saturday. She was born in 1805. Fcur soldiers were committed for trial at Norwich on Saturday, charged with haring attempted to murder another saldier by burning sulphur in in his room.  Mr. GLidstone returned to Downing-street on Saturday, and attended the Cabinet Council; The right hon. gentleman afterwards returned to the Hoa. nederick Leveson-Gower's seat near Dorking. On Battu(l ty night the driver of an omnibus plying between Edinburgh and Newhaven lost possession of his reins while proceeding down Hanover - street, in Ldinburgh. The omnibus struck against the railings at Queen-street Gardens, and the driver, and the passengers on the top were thrown off with considerable violence, the driver &big killed on the spot. A number of the pastengers were severely injured._
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1880-05-29 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ANOTHER THAMES MYSTERY.  SHOCKING MURDER & MUTILATION. A fearful (Time is now being investigated by the London detective police. Following up the discovery of a human head in the river near Battersea, which occurred on Wedner day afternoon last, by boys at play, the police directed that search should be made in other parts of the river, and on Saturday morning a man who was at work on the foreshore off Thames bank and near Pimlico pier found a large parcel, which had beet, thrown up by the tub. On opening it he was herritied to find that it contained the trunk and arms of a body from which the head and legs had been severed. The body was that of a child about four or tire years of age, and was rolled in several thicknesses of e.,rpet. It had a brick attached to it by means of a string, aid the whole was (lone up in brown paper and securely fastened. The lags had been roughly cut and sawn off by unskilled hands, and it is conjectured by the police that they have formed a separate parcel, which is still in the river. Inspector Shaw, ot the V division, who has the case in hend, on comparing the body with the head previously found (which had been photographed as well as preserved in a glass case for the purposes of identification), ascertained beyond doubt that they were parts of the same corpse. The head had been severed from the body just at the beginning of the neck, and when found by the boys named Reeke, Sullivan, end Burke. of Little Europaplace. Battersea, it was made up into a sort of round parcel of canvas and brown paper, and contained a brick of an exactly similar description to that attached to the trunk found off Pimlico The police authoritics, from marks of violence 'about the bceiy, as well as from the brutal way it which it has been mutilaeed, entertain no doubt that a very shocking murder has been committed, but they consider it strange that more care was not taken in the disposal of the parcels. The head must have been thrown into the river from Battersea bridge, and if the act was p, rpetrated at the time of high water—which seems to be most probable—the depth, no doubt, led the perpetrator of the crime to imagine that the disposal of such an evidence of it would be sure to be safe from discovery. The shocking mutilation of the lower part of the body and the pelvis prevents any certain opinion as to the sex of the victim, but the head of the child has a profusion of fair curls, and the medical examination of Dr. Kempster led to the conclusion that this portion of the remains had net been in the water for a period of more than 21 hours. The body and the head have been removed to the Batterara mortuary. Detectite inspectois SilaW and White. who specially have the inquiry in hand, have as yet no clue which may le al to the apprehension of the perpetrator of the crime. It is believed that the separate parceis centaining the remains were thrown into th a river at differ tit p :int: a considerable di..tart.c apart, and the seafch fur the .missin.,, parts of the body is being continu d over tile shore s on ci..her side of the river.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1888-05-19 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER AT GRASMERE.  On Sunday evening a most deliberate attempt eras made to take the life of a woman who has chant ,xe" one of the huts at the summit of the Raise, Gras/seem. Owing to the lack of accommodation for navvies in thdr Lake District the contractors of the Mauchetie waterworks have ereeted colonies of huts at d-yeere, stages of the pipe track where the work is likeir be difficult or prolonged. One of the colonies lr Dunmail Raise, the boundary of Westmorland lac( Cumberland. At this place a man named Gill as elhn wife have charge of one of the hats. Gill is abort years of age, belongs to Doncaster, and is empluye,t /hit engine-driver on the waterworks; his wife is a isatlns of Westmorland. On Sunday Gill and some of War companions went to the neighbouring village to cure drink, returning in the afternoon the worse foeEwe. The men also braught some drink along widek them to their hut, which is situated about (oar tame: above Grasmere. After drinking some time viten. they reached home, Gill left his companions foe tan. purpose of going to bed. This was between five same six o'clock in the evening. On entering the bedrooms Gill ordered his wife to leave the room; and, notiektig the wild and excited look of her husband, she hurrisni, to comply with his request. No sooner had she fa her back turned than Gill took hold of a two-barivilhei, breech-loading gun, which was standing ready leader: in the room. With this he took aim at his wife ivat I as she was leaving the room, the distance between 41:111' two people not being above two yards. Fortunate* Mrs. Gill was knocked down by the concuasion behaft• the shot Lad spreed, and the result was that mostat the pelle.s entered the door. Her face. however, emu severely scarred. The lodgers in the but ran to beve assistance, and secured Gill, before he had time Me. discharge the second barrel. The district being we remote the news did not spread for some time, but ins. formation was given to the village constable at Gni.mere, who apprehended Gill the same night. eve woman. Gill x was w s also gh o called to before o attend the be d to the m Ambleeide on Monday, and alight evidence waa &am and a remand was granted.  SI CRO LE CLVB Sppirpa —lt may be well to recran,g, all intending competitors at these sports on Saturtitsr next, that the entries close to-day. These spouts. saw the chief attraction of the season, and the "sinceoffered this year are of sufficient value to induce gaud entlies, so that a successful meeting may be anti a-I-patted. The prizes to be distributed by the May ems, and wla:ch ere exceptionally valuable, will be orz slew ii Mi. B. Wrights's window. Duke-street TEI ceatre of attraction will be the Douglas Amateur Ai. L letie I Challenge Cup, valut, 50 guineas, which was rum- laet year`gby W. Walker, Darrow.