Glasgow Courier. — 1845-02-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DISPZNATZ ATTNSIPT AT ASSASSINATION NY SHOOTING.— GALLANT RISSINTANCE.—On Sunday, the 20th ultimo, about the hour of one o'clock, and during divine service, four men—two of whom were armed with pistols, the other two with wattles— went to the house of Mr. Richard James, a respectable Protestant schoolmaster, in connexion with the Church Education Society, residing at Dromakeenan, in the King's County, within about one mile and • half of Roscrea, and about five hundred yards of a police barrack. The two men armed entered the house; the other two remained at the door, acting as sentinels. The armed men inside, on meeting Mrs. James and her servant girl in the hall, forced them into a school-room in the house by threatening to shoot them. They then went into the kitchen, where Mr. James happened to be at the time, sitting by the fireside reading the Bible, and demanded from him his gun, which be refused giving them; and finding himself unable by their presence to go into an adjoining room for the gun, he immediately armed himself with a dirk, having a blade about oil inches long, which fortunately happened to be within reach of him at the moment. The party seeing James's determination of resisting them, one of them immediately fired a shot at him lodging the contents—a large number of slugs—in his forehead. James immediately stabbed one of the men twice in the breast, driving the dirk in his murderous assailant to the very haudle ; and then, after driving the whole party out of his hone, immediately went to the adjoining bed-room for his gun which was loaded, then ran outside the door about two yards, and was in the act of uncasing it, preparing to fire on them, when-poor James became so weak that he fell down and was obliged to be carried into his house by his wife and the girl—very unfortunately the police at the station near the hones were on , patrol at the time in a different direction. On information reaching town, Sub-Inspector Morgan and a party of police were soon at the scene of outrage, also a large party of police from Shinrone shortly afterwards arrived, as aim Colonel Lloyd, D.L. King's County, who traced the blood of the man, that was stabbed by , James, from his house to the wall of Mount Heaton Wood, a hatance of more than a mile, when they (the police) lost all further , trace of the party. Doctor Powell of Roscrea was in attendance very short time after the outrage had taken place kindly  try Mtn an to his recovery. vtuerem parsms ut pvss,v •...........,. , Out the whole of Sunday night searching for the wounded rebel ' and his companions in guilt, in the wood and townlands adjoining I Mount Heaton, but in vain. 1 Poor James, on Monday night, was in a very dangerous gate, ! and only very slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. On Tuesday a huge constabulary force under Captain Kelly, R.M., ' searched the country for several mites round, as also the Mount ' Heaton river, by dragging it, in hopes of finding the dead body of ' the wounded man, but without effect. A young man named John ' Costelloe, was found dead on Monday morning near Clonbroone, between Killine and Frankfort, King's County (and about ten , miles from Mr. James's residence) with a wound in the side of his breast, and it is supposed he is the man that James stabbed as I before stated; other reports state that he was shot dead in that locality on Sunday night.