Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-10-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  MURDER  LORD MOUNTMORRES,  Intelligence reached Galway on Sunday morning that Lurd Menntmorres had teen murdered at his residence, Ebor Hall, near Clonburn, County Galway, on the previous evening. The deceased was but a small landed proprietor. At the last Galway sessions he was engaged in litigation with some of his few tenants. The police are engaged in investigating the matter, but up to the present no clue has been obtained of the murderers. It appeared that on Saturday evening he attended a meeting of magistrates at Cloubin in reference to a land demonstration that was to take place next day, and left for borne at about eight p.m. Half an boar afterwards his carriage arrived at his residence without him. This aroused suspicion among his family, and search having being made, his lordship's body was found lying in a pool of blood about a mile from his residence. The body was conveyed to Ebor Hall, and on examination it was found that Lord Mountmorres had received three wounds inflicted by rifle bullets, one in the neck, a wound in the body, and one in the head, any one of which was sufficient to cause death. A lantern was found where the deceased lay, and a bottle of whisky was found in the well of the carriage. At a large meeting held at Cloubin on Sunday, the speakers repudiated on the part of the Land League any connection with the horrible deed. The unfortunate nobleman was the repro. sentative of a branch of that well-known noble family of De Montmorency long settled I in Ireland, and was the fifth viscount of the Mountmorres title, created about the middle of the last century. Unlike most Irish noblemen and landlords, he was, it is believed, a constant resident on his property, which was, however, not very extensive, and along the mountain slopes of Lough Carrih. Except in his own immediate neighbourhood, he was not much known, and had the repute of being most unpopular tap to recently he was guarded by the police. He was barely forty-eight years of age, and was wholly educated in Ireland, being a graduate in Trinity College, Dublin. His father was Dean of Actionry. The family,, were considered Liberal in politics, but the deceased nobleman was recently understood to be engaged in a very determined conflict with some of his tenantry. He leaves a family of two sons and two daughters, the elder of the former, now succeeding to the title, being a child of eight years. The dreadful event will cause a terrible sensation in the western counties. Two persons have been arrested on suspicion. The Press Association's special representative in Ireland telegraphs that the police now believe that more than one person was concerned in the murder of Lord Monntmorres. The bullets found on the body are of different kinds, and could not all have been fired from the same weapon. Their appears little evidence to inculpate Sweeney, the man arrested, beyond the fact of Lord Mountniorres having had differences with him. Francis Gannon, mason, of Ballinrobe, late tenant, and working at present at Clonbnr, has been arrested on suspicion of complicity in the murder. Gannon has been brought before a magistrate and remanded. The police are atilt at work very actively in the district.