Star. — 1829-09-02 (London, England)

ICTION OF FOUR BROTHERS, FOR MURDER. Thomas, Pierce, Nicholas, James, and EdmundWaltete. stood charged with the murder of Arthur Graham, their brother-in-law, at Coda, on the 16th of last May. The indictment stated that Thomas Wallace did affix a rope round the neck of Graham, and that he did choke, ,iiffctcate, and strangle him, and that the other prisoners were aiding. 'fhe priioners were comfortable-looking farmers, and were particularly handsome and fine-looking men. Every person in Court was struck with the extraordinary likeness they all bore to each other. The elder of the five n•as about 4.5 years of age, and the younger about 27. Mr. SCOTT, King's Counsel, stated to the Court, that it became his duty, in the absence of the Solicitor-Genecal. who was called away by other avocations, to state all the circumstances connected with this most atrocious  sold horrible murder. Mr. Scott then gave a very !,.tigthened detail of the evidence to be produced on the trial, in which he was fully borne out by the witnesses he produced. The first witness called was Anne Graham, the mother of the deceased. She was examined by Mr. O'Dw YEA, ind stated, that the night her son was murdered he was at her house till an hour or two AO nightfall; that when he was about to go home he called her to the door to observe the fineness of the night, and with what brilliancy the moon shone ; that she then saw him depart, and go towards his own house, which was only a few perches distant from hers ; that her son was married to Mary Wallace, the sister of the prisoners, of whom he was very fond, but she was " a bad head to him." That she was present on the Tuesday before her son was murdered, when deceased, and Ned and Jem Wallace, had a dispute about the rent of potato ground, when Ned and ,f em Wallace endeavoured to take away the potatoes, and the deceased prevented them; that the prisoners Thomas and Pierce lived at Coolanuro, which was a mile from the house of the deceased. Witness saw the body of her son the morning (Sunday) after he was murdered ; it was in a miserable, horrid, dirty state ; the neck was cut and marked in two places as if with a rope ; the face was cut, and the tongue protruded far beyond the lips ; there was blood running from the ears and nose ; there was, the mark of the heel of a shoe on the chest, there was another mark of the heel of a shoe on the forehead, and .he could count the impressions of the nails which were in the shoes that struck him on the forehead. Thomas Skehan deposed to hearing a dispute between the deceased and the prisoner James, before the murder. Etlmond Cummins, a little boy, saw three of the five prisoners, on the night of the murder, prepare the rope with which it is supposed the deceased was strangled. Margaret Horan stated that she lived as servant with the prisoner Thomas Wallace, in May last, when Arthur (':ahem was murdered. On the Monday after Graham was murdered, heard Tom tell his wife to wash his brown coat, and he said he often desired her to do it, and that if any of the Peelers should come and see it dirty, they Ileuhl say he was out on Saturday night ; Tom's wife took out the coat and washed it in a lake, which is in a field near the house, and then put it on a hedge to dry ; before the Wallaces were taken, witness was brought before Captain Millett, and denied any knowledge of the washing of the coat ; Tom and Pierce desired her to stick to what she said if she should again be examined. Michael Landers (a boy about 15 years of age), ex,mined by the Hon. Mr. PLITs