Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1862-05-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDER IN TIPPERARY.  The Clowned Chronicle gives a detailed and somewhat "sensation' account of the murder of Michael Maguire, at Glenbower. It has been already stated that the deceased took a farm from which a fellow, named Kennedy, had been evicted :—" Scarcely was deceased in the farm three weeks when ill-feelling began to show itself in a manifest and decided manner—two of his ploughs were maliciously broken on the Raheen Farm, but no clue could be had to the perpetrator of the act, though the whole country round ' held one man as guilty. Threats were heard that the man should not be allowed to exist who took the holding of the evicted, yet nothing of a positive warning was given. At half-past seven o'clock on Tues• day morning the old man went to Raheen, passing by the police-barracks. He wail not seen alive afterwards by any of his family. The two workmen whom he had sent with four horses around by the road —himself preferring a short cut across the fields—had arrived, and , had commenced work in the field. Looking from the police-barrack door, one could see a part of the field of blood' not five hunured yards away! In a ditch at the offside lurked the assassin, close to the stile over which Maguire must pass. The crouching tiger permitted his prey to come within a few yards of the ditch when he sprang forward, it is generally supposed, jumped over the fence, and seized the aged victim by the throat ere he could utter a cry for help. (We are here assuming that but one person was engaged in this awful act.) Tne knife does its bloody work, and the wounded man struggles for existence ere the last gash is given. From the pierced breast and stomach of the victim the blood flows in sufficient quantity to mark out the circle round which the cowardly ruffian strove with his victim in his death struggle. Here a well of gore marks some dreadful pause. Again a stream continues in completing the circle, until the copious pool where the deceased sank to the ground. Another !Accreted wound and the villain escapes. In an hour and a-half after, his son comes along the same path, and seeing t e corpse falls fainting beside it. Michael Kennedy is found in a forge, but his clothes bear no mark of blood. Five or six hours had intervened, and certainly the murderer, whoever he be, had time to wipe away the more glaring evidence of his blood thirstiness. On Tue:diy night the body lay in the outhouse. Through the neighbourhood there appeared no open active sympathy among the class to which the unhappy deceased belonged. His own family and immediate relatives stood around the lowly bier— s solitary sub-constable sat there through the night to guard the body from disturbance." It appears that the deceased's head was nearly severed from his body, which was stabbed in three or four places. There was also a deep gash down the left cheek. The F,ee,na,i's Journal says :—"We have been assured on the very best authority, that the cruel and barbarous murder perpetrated in Tipperary cannot be traced to any confederacy or Ribbon conspiracy, as no such confederacy exists in that country. There is internal evidence in connection with each case that personal revenge was the influencing motive of the criminals. The Coroner's Jury seems to be satisfied that the assassins have been detected, and that no shelter was given them by the peasantry— another strong evidence in support of the views of our respected informant."