The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-03-11 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

MURDER IN TIIS COUNTY ANTRIM.—An atrocions murder was perpetrated on Friday, at a place called Gillistown, five miles from Randalstown, in the county Antrim. A man named Rainey had a garden in which there is a spring well, from which the eottiers who live near were in the habit of drawing water, and to which they believed they had • *pennon right. Rainey put up a gate in order to exclude them, giving notice that be would allow no more aocess to the well, as the people frequenting it spoiled his garden. A woman named Bridget Connor, went to the well, disregarding the peoldbition. An altercation arose with Rainey. Daniel Quinn ran out of his house to ascertain the sense, accompanied by his wife and others. lie interfered, when Rainey struck him with his fist in the face, and in quick sitecession Rainey's daughter struck him with a "beetle" on the head. A man named Warren stabbed hint with a stable-fork on the forehead, and soother man struck him on the back of the head with • bludgeon, which felled him to the ground, and he was killed on the spot. This tragedy was enacted quite suddenly in the midst of a general fight with all sorts of weapons. The Raineys retreated to their house, which they barricaded, defending themselves with difficulty against the furious assaults of the friends of the murdered man. The police was soon on the spot, and arrested six persons. An inquest has been held, and the following verdict returned ;—" That the deceased came by his death, from blows indicted by Samuel Warden and William M'Dowell, and that Charles Rainey and his daughter, Elizabeth Rainey, were present, aiding and abetting in the transaction." The four prisoners were then returned for trial at the approaching Belfast Assizes. A ears was tried at the Cork Assizes, on Wednesday, in which Lady Lonsia Morgan, wife of Captain Morgan, and danghtsr of the Earl of Mount-Oaahell, prosecuted her lather-in-law, Mr. Edward Morgan, J.P., and some of his servants, for an assault. The defendant demanded possession of a carriage, the property of the lady'. husband, which she refused to give him, and he proceeded to take it by force. The plaintiff endeavoured to prevent him, and, as sh• deposed, was thrown down, struck, some of her hair torn out, her neckeliain broken, and her dress torn by the defendants. The jury, without leaving the box, returned • verdict acquitting all the defendants. Mr. Barney Sheehan, an eccentrio member of th• Cork Town Council, got into trouble on Monday. His oddities have been tolerated to an extraordinary extent by his fellow citizens, but Baran Hughes did not understand that sort of indulgence. In reference to a remark of counsel about frivolous actions, Mr. Sheehan, in • loud voice, said, "It's ell the fault of that humbug plods attorney, niy Lord." The judge inquired who the man was, and at once ordered him to be placed in the dock. "Oh my Lord," said Barney," but 1 beg your pardon, Sir, for a minute. I didn't mean anything at all, indeed, Sir." He was kept in the dock till the Court rose at 6 o'clock, when Professor Barry pleaded for him, and obtained his release on condition that lie should not enter either of the courts during the rest of the sittings, Baron Hughes explaining that lie had been aware that the tame person had interrupted the Court on former occasions. Anether murder has been perpetrated in Ireland. A John M'Kernan was shot dead at his own door on the evening of the 25th ult., and so thoroughly have the parties engaged in the crime succeeded in obliterating all Waved of themselves that, although several have been apprehended, they have all been discharged with one exception, to whom some special suspicion is said to attach. The outrage, it is said, was committed in consequence of M'Eenian having tel en souse land from which others had been evicted.