The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-12-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER OF THE BOY THOMAS MAGUIRE.—Since the holding of the inquest on the remains of the above ill-fated child the county coroner, Mr. James M`Carthy, M.D., has been indefatigable in attending to every information calculated to throw any light that might possibly lead to 'the discovery of the perpetrator of the atrocious murder. Additional depositions to those given on the inquest have from day to day been received by him in his magisterial capacity. Some portion of this goes strongly in corroboration of the former evidence, establishing the fact of the boy having been seen with the prisoner Delahunt, shortly prior to the discovery of the body in the lane off Pembroke-road : while other portions of these subsequent informations refer to different points bearing on the case. We select the following:—James Maguire, a market boy, living at 4, Cherry-lane, Great Britain-street, was, in consequence of a statement made by him to the coroner, sent on Thursday to Kilmainbarn prison, where, amongst seven or eight other persons, he he at once identified the prisoner John Delahunt, and whom he deposed to having seen, on the afternoon of Monday last, at half-past five o'clock, enter Mr. Drake's public-house, in Capel-street, with a boy, answering generally to the description of the deceased Thomas Maguire, whose body he had viewed Also on Thursday at the irishtown police stationhouse. Soon after entering the public-house Delahunt went out, leaving the boy behind him ; he returned in about a quarter of an hour, and, without mentioning any name, desired the child to come away; the little fellow did so, and they left the place. It appeared that a boy named Butler, living in Planket-st., had stated that on Monday he saw a man go up to the deceased, who was at the time at play with other children in Francis-street, and call him by his name, Thomas Maguire, telling him to go with him, which the other did. An information was sworn by Thomas Gavan, aged 10 years, from which it appeared that while he and two other boys, named Michael Harney and John Hand, were at play in the field described at the inquest as adjoining the lane off Pembrokeroad, in which the murder had been committed, he found, within a few yards of the wall bounding the lane, a knife. The knife was produced. It appeared to be an ordinary breakfast knife, having a white haft, the blade rather considerably worn, and narrowed very much towards the point, but the edge not particularly sharp. Some parts of the blade bore marks strongly resembling blood stains. There was further evidence besides that adduced before the coroner in the first instance, showing that the deceased had been seen late in the afternoon of Monday, in company with Delahunt, in the neighbourhood of Baggot-street. A person named James Mooney, resident in Eastmorland-street, deposed, on instant, at last, that on Monday evening, the 20th at about ten minutes to seven o'clock, he saw John Delahunt, whom he had known by sight for some three or four weeks previously, walking up and down ina stable lane off. Eastmorland-lane. The foregoing comprises the principal of the facts elicited since Monday last. On Christmas morning the body of the murdered boy (which bad lain at the Irishtown police station-house since the view of it by the jury on Tuesday), was consigned to the grave in St. Kevin's Churchyard.—Dublin Freeman's Journal.