Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-12-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER OF AN IRESHMAN  NEAR BIRMOGILVI.  EXTRA.ORDINARY. 01 ECU MSTAN CE S. On Sunday afrerneors an Irish labourer was ixturoered at Solihull, a small town near Birmingham, wader circumstances which will he generally reopgnised as similar to those of other mysterious outrages upon Irishmen wlxicu have been attributed to secret influence. The victim is John Gateley, about 26 years of age, who had been in England five or six years. He had been employed as cowman upsn the farm of Mr Graham, a well-knowu horse-breeder in the neighbourhood, for the past two years. On Sunday, although generally attending Mass in Birmingham,cleceased walked to Solihull with the stated object of keeping an appointment with another labourer. Startmug at nine o'clock, he arrived too Isle for /T 18.1413 and went to the Gardeners' Arms beerhouse in Main-street. The landlord states he entered with three or four strange Irishmen, and that there were about twenty people present, really of the same nationality, the heerhouse being the acknowledged Irish house. About an hour afterwards deceassd was asked by one-of the men to go into the 3 ara, arid several went out together. A 4 he was walking towards a group Ire turned round, and saw is pistol in the hand of a Man behind him, which wee immediately fired, the bullet entering the abdomen, and he fell to the ground. The explosion was heard in the beerhouse, and ! the servant, upon going into the yard, saw a man with a pistol or revolver in his hand, and heard Gatelay say, " I am done for." The supposed murderer walked through the beerhouse into the stseet, telling the landlord, in reply to a question, that there had been an accident, and got away without any attempt being mailti to detain him. All went at once to the yard, and Gateley was found upon the ground. He was removed to the Workhouse Infirmary. His case was considered hopeless from the first, and he . gradually sank, and died on Monday at halfpast five. His dying declaration states that he was ignorant of the name of the man who shot him. The Irishmen present at the time the shot was fired also deny any knowledge of the strangers, who disappeared immediately afterwards, and the police superintendent says that no effort was made to detain them or to follow the all Ned assassin, although the landlord appealed to those present to do so. The firer of the pistol is described as being fr,2in 35 to 40 years old, about 51- feet high, fresh esmplexion, _brow., whiskers, aud. dres.od in a long grey ulster, black leather leggings, and billycock Lost. Ile spoke with an I Irish accent.  A co,nparative stgement.of the Cant.dian revenue from July Ist to Novembar 30th shows the revenue reosipti to have been 15,025,360 dots., an iverotse of 3,060,153 dole. upon tne revenue uf the eorreaponding period last year,  . Mr E. Johnson, M.P., speukin4 at Exeter on Saturday evening, f43,ii he did not despair of Irishmen comin!,, to a sts.te of common Sense and recognisoiug. that the present Parliament was mote likely than any that had preceded it to give jasLiee to Ireland. At a ruee!ing of English, Irish, and Scotch Radicals at Leeds 0/ Saturday, Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P., 138.. a let Government do their worst in the matter of coercion, they could not bring bauk the ghost of landlordism, for its tyrannical spirit WWI laded for ever. . . . _ _  Satarday'e cablegram from New York says the improved demand for Scotch pig iron continues one batul, quotations being firm. The Glasgow branch of tho Land League have resolved ncni to patroci..e the business of any Irishman who reftmis to support the land movement.  The International Fleet has ai,persed. A large nutribr of fictitious n 5 notes, pnr. porting to have been issued by the West Riling Bank, Wakefield, have been circulated in Hull by two men whom the police are =abb., to trace.  TitE RME BETWSEN ThICI:Err