The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1825-06-20 (London, England)

SHOCKING MURDER.-45nFrit1;y last, about eleven o'clock. a man was found murdered at the Ford of Kiltoon, about four miles and a half from Athlone, in a plantation, a few yards distance from the high road to Roscommon. His head was dreadfully mangled, and his hands almost beat into jelly. The body was exposed from Friday morning till Saturday evening, by order of the Coroner, for recognition ; but the deceased was wholly unknown in that part of the country. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of " N ilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." Monday forenoon, a young lad, son of a Dissenting Clergyman, in Greenock, fell into the west harbour there, accidentally and unobserved. A book having been noticed floating on the water, and subsequently a hat, suspicion was excited of some one having fallen in. Aleans were apeedilyvetorted to for making the requisite search, and the insensible body of the youth was at length brought up with a boat hook. Probably more than ten minutes had elapsed during the immersion, yet by long and mudduous exertion the suspended animation was restored, and the youth is rapidly recovering. Sox Na 81.71.1Sat.—P1TTITIFT.D, Apart. 23.—Mr. T. Dean, of Adams, in this county, son of the late Dr. Dean, had employed himself for some weeks In thrashing during the past winter. One night as he was about closing his labours, he ascended a ladder to the top of the great beams in the barn, where the rye which he was threshiag was deposited, to ascertain what number of, bundles remained unthrashed, which he determined to finish next day. The ensuing night about two o'clotk, as was supposed, Mr. Dean was heard by his mother to get up. and go out, and had no further recollection of hint during the night ; he repaired to his barn, being in sound sleep, and, altogether unconscious of what he was doing, set open his barn doors, ascended the ladder as he had dots the day before, to the haymow, thence on to the great beams of the barn to where the said rye was deposited, and threw down a flooring, and again descended and commenced thrashing it; when he had completed it he raked off the straw, and bound it into bundles, and shoved up the rye to one side of the floor, and then carried the straw tip the ladder and deposited it on some rails that lay across the great beams of the barn ; then threw down another flooring of rye, which he thrashed and finished as before ; thus he continued his labours until he had thrashed five floorings, and on returning from throwing down the sixth and last, in passing over part of the haymow. he fell off where the hay had been cut down, about six feet on the lower part of it, which awoke hint. He at first imagined himself in his neighbour's barn, but after groping about in the dark for a long time, ascertained that he was in his own barn, and at length found the ladder on which he descended to the floor—closing his barn, which he found open, and returned to his house; on coming to the light he found himself in such a profuse perspiration, that his clothes were litterally wet through ; he went to bed, and the nest morning on going to his barn, found that he had thrashed during the night five bushels of rye—had raked the straw off in good order, and bound it up and deposited it on the great beanie, and shoved up the grain to one aide of the floor, all In a workmanlike manner, without the least consciousness of what he was doing, until he fell from the hay. Mr. Dean was disposed to have concealed these extraordinary facts, until his neighbours inquired the cause of his thrashing nights, when his family disclosed the secret—.4inericom J./trice. [