The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-06-03 (London, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER IN IRELAND.  Some days ago, the wife of a man, named Hayes, liv•mg near Parsontown, King's county, disv,ppeared. Hayes said she had gone away with some relatives to America but the explanation was not considered satisfactory, and the man w,,s taken into custody. On Friday he made, a clean breast of the whole affair to Mr. Willis, a clergyman. He said that on Tuesday morning, about four o'clock, before he got up, be gave the woman a kick, which knocked her out of the bed. She fell on the floor, and be went to sleep again, and did not think more of the matter till he awoke -again in about two hears, when he , found her still lying on the floor where she fell, and bleeding profusely. fie got up and washed her face, and then Found that she was dead, when he at once got a sack and pucher clothes and herself into it, and brought it down to the bog and buried it. He then described how he packed everything belonging to her into the bedtick, and brought them to the same -.place, and also buried them. He was taken in a car to the bog, and asked to point Jut the exact spot. The Kin7'4 County Chronicle says : "Closely accompanied by Mr. Willis, he crossed several drains, and traversed a good deal of ground until he same to a small gangway across a drain which had recently been cleared up, and then he stopped. Raising his hagard face and lack lustre eyes to heaven, he pointed to the place s.', excktinaing' 'Before God, Mr. Teo spot was most cunningly Curran, there she i idected, and, as the wretched Tnrul ,26,090 slum could not find it unless he went himself.' The having procured spades and shovels, set to work with a will, the prisoner directing them to keep where they found the bog soft, and .not to cut any fresh ground. After digging about three feet below the surface of the surrounding bog, thepolice laid bare the tick. The prisoner, who showed evident signs of faint-, nese, several times throwing himself on the ground to recover himself, was then taken away to the car and brought to the town. The bedtick was first exhumed, and, on being opened, displayed a most heterogeneous collection of articles; indeed, as a countrywoman who was present expressed it, everything that belonged, to itarin the house. The sack was next brought -to' the bank. It was sewed at the mouth, and, on being opened, the slippers which the deceased wore came out. A, smoothing iron was also found in the mouth of the sack. It was evident that the 'woman had been thrust Into the sack head foremost, and it therefore became necessary to rip the bottom of the sack, when a most • horrifying, sightpresented itself. The head was terribly battered ;ithe right eye was 'nearly closed with a cut, and •there was another desperate cuton the left temple. Her _ nose also was apparently broken, while the blood on her face was quite fresh, which _appeared as,if it had been recently washed. The appearance presanted by the - body made it clear that the prisoner had not confessed • the truth as .to the manner of her death, as she was dressed, and the wounds on her head were such as could not have been inflicted by a fall out of 13,d, the smoothing iron which was in the sack with her being most pro. bably the instrument by which the foul deed was perpe• trated. The murdered woman was the second wife of the prisoner, and they appear to have lead a most 'unbappy life being continually quarrellity, she often re.aernrigthe most brutal usage at his hands.