The Sun. — 1848-01-31 (London, England)

SOLICITOR-GENERAL —I live at Ballyknockin, and am a steward in the employment of the Marquis of Ormond at the wood of Killarney. The deceased Edward Madden was employed there as an assistant steward over the women engaged in barking the timber. I know the prisoners. On the 9th of July I left my own place to go to the wood. As I was passing through it I heard a shot, and heard Madden bawl. I knew his voice. I looked after I heard the shot, and :Ave the smoke, and observed a man, and then another, who bounced out close to where the first man was, and fired a second shot. I afterwards heard a third shot, and saw the man who fired it. I heard Madden bawl immediately after the first shot, and before the second. After the first shot was fired he began to move away, and then the two others were fired after him. The three shots were fired at him before he reached the gap. The persons who were present did not pursue the murderers. I did not attempt to follow them myself, for they were out of sight in a minute. I turned back from the place and set the people to work. The list of workmen was called over, but they did not all answer. There were 160 men altogether. Henry Cody did not attend that day at all, but Phil. Cody came at one o'clock and made a half-day. They were both at work on the following day. They worked there all that day, but never after. Harry Cody lived at Ballyknockin, and the other prisoner at Bohermore. Mr. M. Ryan, R. 2,1., examined by the ATTORNIIT• GerotAL-1. went to see Madden, after he was shot, on the same day, and found him lying in an outhouse; the irst word he said was, " Ah, Sir, they have done my job at last." He also said tkat he did not expect to recover, that he was almost off. He was perfectly in his senses at the time. He told me the priest had been with him. I reduced to writing the statement he then made. Sir Charles O'Donnell deposed that he was in command of the troops in the district, and that he hears the declaration read to the deceased by Mr. Ryan. The deceased assented to the statement as it was read. The Clerk of the Crown then read the "dying declaration" of the deceased. After stating that he had settled his affairs, and received the rites of his church, to prepare him for appearing before his God, where he soon expected to be, the document set forth that Henry Cody was the person who fired the shot that wounded him, and that two other shots were fired at him, by Philip Cody, of Bohermore, and a strange man whom be took to be Ned Kelly, of Kilcash.  Mr. Ryan was then cross-examined by Mr. RonLISTON—He said, I took down in the declaration everything the deceased said. The deceased was with me frequently on magisterial business during the two years I knew him, and gave me most important private information. I only knew him to be accused of one crime, robbery of a gun. Sub-constable Flannagan deposed that he arrested the prisoner, Henry Cody, on the 11th of September. Witness saw him running from the wood with a gun in his hand, and when witness came up near him he snapped a gun at him (witness), and was raising the cock again when witness knocked him down. They both fell together, and Cody got up and ran off again. The case for the prosecution closed here, and Mr. ROLLBSTON addressed the jury for the defence. The Solicitor-General having replied the Chief Baron charged the jury, who retired, and in about twenty minutes found the prisoners Guilty—Henry Cody of the murder, and Philip Cody of having aided and assisted in it. Sentence was deferred. CHARGE or