The Sun. — 1839-03-30 (London, England)

MURDER OF LORD NORBURY. RESULT OF THE INVESTIGATION.  Costello, it will be recollected, accused Dawson of having endeavoured,to induce him to assassinate Lord Norbury, stating that he did not at once bluntly refuse, but merely let the matter pass over ; that after the deed was done he met Dawson in the street again, when he told him that he got his brother-in-law, Patrick Kennedy, to do the job ; that he stayed watching for him with his breast up against the ditch, until he got a good opportunity to let fly at him. Upon this information Kennedy and Dawson were instantly arrested and corn. witted to gaol ; Costello, as a matter of course, was also detained in custody, and an- inquiry was set on font to ascertain how far his story could be corroborated ;. and whilst this inquiry was 'actually :pending, Dawson offered to give the real, inibrmation that would lead, without any mistake, to tho•coavictioit of all the parties concerned. Dawson stated that a man named John Rafter, an apprentice to a stone-cutter near Durrow, told him that he was the man who shot Lord Norbury ; that he was not personally acquainted with his Lordship, and that he employed a man named Hennessy, one of his tenants, to point him out, and that having watched for him on the day in question, he waited for a favourable opportunity, and let fly in the same way that Kennedy was represented to have done by Costello ; that the shot was fired from a double barrelled gun which was given to him by a boat driver named Cassidy, who brought it from Philipstown to Tullamore on the day Lord Norbury was murdered. Inquiry was set on foot with regard to the truth of this story, Rafter, Hennessy, and Cassidy having been first arrested and safely lodged in gaol. It was found That Cassidy did bring a double-barelled gun from Philipstown to Tullamore on that day, and that he conveyed it in the boat which arrived about half-past three o'clock. On the whole, it was thought that enough had been elicited to require the presence of the gentlemen above stated ; and little doubt was entertained that a clue was at last obtained to this truly mysterious murder. But, alas ! all that has taken place has only tended to involve it in deeper mystery. The following is the sequel of the stories of Messrs. Costello and Dawson. With regard to Costello's, it was found that he was driving pigs to Mountmellick on the day the murder was perpetrated ; and that Kennedy, who was represented to him by Dawson as the person who actually fired the shot, was all that day in the court-house of Tul!amore, where he had some sessions business, and that, neither on the day or any other day previously, had he been in the neighbourhood of Darrow:. Then, with regard to Dawson's story, it was ascertained that Rafter, Hennessy, and Cassidy were not in the neighbourhood that day, that they were men of most unimpeachable character, and that the gun which .rom a gentleman in was brought to Tullamore by Cassidy was borrowed. f Phillipstown, and given by him (Cassidy), when he arrived in Tullamore, into the care of a respectable Protestant farmer, named Garret, who lives in the neighbourhood of Darrow, but who did not leave Tullamore until after seven o'clock that evening, he having the gun in his possession all the time. Dawson has gone back of all he said, and states by way of apology, that he was afraid his life would be sworn away in the wrong, and that he thought implicating others would save himself. All the parties accused, with the excoption of the two informers, have been liberated.