The Sun. — 1831-03-14 (London, England)

LIN C OLN, MARCH 10. 111$ Michael Lundy, aged 25, was indicted for et, wilful murder of Thomas Sewards. The priae°lo it appeared, and the deceased, to whose daughtefs was married, were both Irish labourers, and riatl;hs of the county of Sligo. On the morning 01;ot 26th of July last, they hired themselves to a fin"named Wilson, living in the hamlet of Grimstille: in this county. After their day's work was ..dy° Wilson proposed to them to sleep in his gra;j:; To this the prisoner objected, as he had, he 53,1'0 pain in his stomach. Wilson then took thePid his barn, furnished them with straw and sacks,:,; putting the key in the inside of the door, told the/ they might lock themselves in or not, just to tot pleased. About eight o'clock, Mrs. Wilson 0101 to the yard to look after her poultry, and Bel .t ee every thing was right. The barn-door was tos, open, and she observed the prisoner sitting ebee's form beside a bench on which a carpenter hat!, left, working there that day. The carpenter hau,sli.' his tools in the barn, and amongst them was an • 14 v which lay on the ground. The barn was neit half a mile distant from W;lson's dwelling-ht)4 At about nine o'clock, Mrs. Wilson was alatl 4 a cry of " murder." Her husband having go et) to the Castle, she opened the door, and sat 04 prisoner in his small clothes and shirt, but witfii shoes or stockings. He was screaming" Mu! Oh, tV, and seemed dreadfully frightened. He / Englishman would murder him. In replyto opi tions put to him by Mrs. Wilson and' her son' also Mrs. Wood and her son, whom his crie6A drawn to the spot, he stated, that as he wastftift his prayers in the barn, a tall black man, high, with a broad-brimmed glazed hat, MI: pflif appearance at the door, and waited until toe gi;es soner had finished his prayers, when he site him if he wanted company ? to which prison puts plied, he should be very glad of company. Illented who was an Englishman, then went in, and e'„d t° into conversation with prisoner, and peopos-coie sleep with him. On this the pi-issuer be,,the alarmed, bol.ed out of the barn, arid ran toware'd dwelling•house; but on his way was Pelthew afi somebody with stones, one of which struck 'it the the forehead. He was therefore sure tiltiliiisol; Englishman meant to murder him. Mr. asked him where his comrade was, and be friel that he was as!eep in the corner of the ba:..'" which she reprimanded him for deserting in,'" 17 thought he e; as in danger of being murdered'tp Pe young men Wood and Wilson then proposer' 0015' company him back to the barn, to which he insto assented. Wilson went in, and going tIP 0,1)1"' corner he found the deceased lying dead, Tin tro he exclaimed " He Is here, and quite dean' ,s examining, Wilson perceived the carpenter 01 buried in the face, near the mouth; and tbtroftb , also a wound on the head, as if from the bae'oso,:. axe. He then said they should go fur a to Elthorpe, whither they all proceeded ( the prisoner), who was taken into custody sprinkles of blood, not larger than pin-hea dad ohs reed on his corduroy small-clothes, and (1, tilr,6 on his bare leg. His hands, which had beetolo4 when he was eating his supper, appeared, been recently washed, and on the constahlebs,ell him if he had washed his hands, he said be corefiri Mr. Baron VAUGHAN having very ep summed up the evidence, the Jury return diet of Guilty. 0101 Hir LORDSHIP then pronounced senteneectits-Ae upon the prisoner, ordering hint to be exe the r Saturday next, and his body to be given t° geons for disivction. 14b19fie The prisoner, on leaving the dock, stale Anse against the bar, and said, this was all Deco P,Ol was a Catholic: had he been a Protestad. Methodist, he would not have been' harp was, he said, " a guilty innocent." .