The Sun. — 1824-08-31 (London, England)

CONVICTION OF SIX MURDERS:RS.  At the Assizes of Kilkenny, on Monday, six unfortunate men were convicted of the murder of Mr. Marum, which excited SO great is sensation when it occurred. The trial last 15 hours, three and a half of which the Lord Chief Justice (who presided) occupied in charging the Jury and recapitulating the evidence, from 113 pages of notes. His Lordship was upwards of 16 hours on the bench. The verdict was returned, and sentence of death passed, at eight o'clock on Tuesday morn. ink. The scene was awful beyond any thing which .has occurred in that county for many years. The following is an abstract report of the trial alluded to : On Monday (the 23d instant) this most important tidal came on before the Lord Chief Justice, in the County Court. house, Kilkenny. We have ample notes of the proceedings, but find ourselves quite unable to transcribe them for the press this day, even if our previous arrangements hail left space for the report. The persons charged with this atrocious offence ' were Michael Campion, Robert Marshall, Patrick Whelan, Minas Sales, William Whelan, and William Delany. They refused to join in their challenges, and Campion was put forward alone. After he had challenged his quantum, and a number had been set aside by the Crown, a very respectable Jury was sworn, by whom the rest of the prisoners then agreed to be tried. The miserable men were given in charge by ten o'clock on Monday, and the Jury did not retire until one o'clock on Tuesday morning. The patience and impartiality of the Learned Judge, his anxiety to unravel the mystery, and to ascertain the truth, during the whole of this protracted and fatiguing trial, was highly honourable to the Irish Bench ; and though we shall not presume to declare that it was never equal. led, we are sure we can with safety say it never was surpassed, in any similar case on the other side of the Channe'. Every prisoner had his alibi witnesses t and what was to us a no. velty, one of them brought forward three witnesses to prove that the Informer was innocent of the murder with which he accused himself and the prisoners, and that he was idling at Kil. kenny, 16 miles from the fatal scene, at, and for days before and after, the time it was committed. About 11 o'clock p.m. the' Lord Chief Justice began to sum up the evidence. His preliminary remarks were eloquent, forcible, and lucid. He had not gone over the whole of the evidence before one o'clock, and he waited on the bench till a querter past two, when, the Jury not being agreed as to two of the prisoners, he retired. At eight o clock he returned to the judgment-seat, and the Jury were called ow, when they gave in a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. The scene in the crowded Court now surpassed any thing we had ever witnessed. A great number of women anti some men began to cry aloud, eloping their hands and tearing their hair at the same time. Campion and Marshall turned about and cast an indignant look on the ,mournera. When the Chief Justice began his solemn and afi'ecting address, it produced a temporary calm, but when lie put on the black cap to pronounce sentence of death, the screeching and loud hysteric sobbing were renewed. The unhappy men are to be executed tomorrow (Thursday last, 211th inst.) in Oalmoy, on the spot where they committed that dreadful crime which 1118 brought them to a premature and ignominious end. Their bodies are to be brought back to the County Hospital to be dissected and anatomized. Some of them exclaimed " Innocent" One called for " a long day, and one of them threw his hat indignantly from him to the ground. The crowd rushed out of Court as the prisoners des. (Tilde(' through the dock, and the loud and terrific symptoms of affliction were doubly manifested in the Street, and till they againstia iss e passed up (till, ie multitude).lii m es ' e-rteoe tth (eticioeuennt ytrance gaol. of which The onlyw ashg indifferenttrdc ii persons were the prisoners. .  I'll,loE OF 110 PS, per Cwt., Aug. SO. Kent Pockets Sussex Pockets Essex Pockets Farnham, tine,.. 101 Os to 151 Os—Seconds, M Or to 10 101 Kent Brigs ... 5l 5s to 61 lOs to 0 °I Sussex Bags . , 4l 15s to AI 15s to 0 0$ Essex Bags __ _ MOsto6l6l to 0 "