The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-08-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDER OF A WARDER OF EILMAINHAM GAOL.  The Dublin correspondent of the Times gives the following : A very determined moraer was perpetrated at midnieht on Saturday Close to Kilmainham Gaol, near Dublin, the murdered /WM being a warder of the prison, named Gettins or Gethine. A. beerhousekeeper, of rather notorious character, has been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer. The murder or manelenghter was accomplished by stab. bing, apparently with a common pooket.knife, and by a wound in the region of the heart. The Daily Express, of this date, gives the following particulars of this mysterious mime "It appears from the statement of the unfortunate man's wile that, at an early hour in the evening, he lsft his own residence in company with Patrick Meehan, a grocer residing in Great Brunswiek.strest. They, according to her account, went out together fur the purpose of having a walk. She did not afterwarde see her husband alive. At about 12 o'clock another warder, who resides immediately opposite the prison, applied to the guard of the gaol for coos brandy, which he said he wanted for a sick man. The guard replied that he had none, hut directed him to a policeman, who was at a short distance, at d who, he said, would procure the brandy if necessary. The policeman then went with him, and found the doceaeed l jog in the house of the second warder in a dying state. The second warder's wife was in the room, and her account is that, hearing a noise outside the house, she proceeded to the hall, and found Gethins there trying to make his way into the house. The deceased called out to her 'I um stabbed.' He mime into the room, and she laid him down on the floor, placing a pillow under his head, and bathed his forehead mitts water. The policeman proceeded to Steeven's Hospital for medical aid. Dr. Tyner, resident surgeon, and Mr. 11. Purcell went immediately to the house where the wounded man was lying. On their arrival they found that life was quite extinct. They also found, OD examining the body, that deceased had lost his life by being stabbed with a sharp instrument about an inch under the nipple of the left breast. Death must have been almost instantaneone. While they were there the carman who drove the policeman to the hospital and back again found a pocketknife on the floor of the hall, jest inside the door. The blade was smeared with blood. and corresponded with the cute in the clothes of the deceased, on which there was a great quantity of blond." -  a..thine wee formerly gumroom steward on board her Majesty's ship Royal George at Kingstown, wirer, he was found to be a quiet and inoffensive Mall. Ile was the eon of a naval warrant officer. In the ware of the day some further particulars of the murdei transpired. The person directly charged with tin murder, Patrick Meehan, was previously unacquainted with Gethins, and met him a abort period before thy fatal occurrence in the hones f O'Connor, another warder of Iffilmainham Gaol, with whom he bad beer out during the evening. An altercation arcue between himself and Gethine in O'Connor's during the progress of which some bad language was used. The parties adjourned to the hall, which is scarcely larger in size than the interior of a cab, and here an encounter took place. Gethine called out that he was stabbed, and on the people within the house proceeding to the locality it was found that he was dying. Ile died In a few minutes afterwards. Meehan received an injury in the right eye. Immediately after thcsmillleMeehan took a cub, driven by a man named Fitzpatrick, why resides in Clarendometreet, and with his child pro. ceeded homewards. On the road he called on a medi eel man and had hie eye dressed.  .