The Sun. — 1831-09-12 (London, England)

MURDER AT BILBOA. (From the Limerick Chronicle.) too) Another victim has been added to that bees 0 ,boo,, their sufferers which this lawless district has sesktoot, their last account. Michael Griffin expired on day morning at the county infirmary, from the of three-gun shot wounds in his thigh, inflictedls, he lay fast aleep on his straw pallet, in a card • Bilboa, with his son and wife. The circtunstli of the attack appeared in our last. On W.' to' the Mayor proceeded to the county infirmsri,: hold an inquest on the body of this unfortunate ir and was assisted by Thomas P. Yokes, Esq., C 7 10, Magistrate of Police. A Jury having been etor,do led, Martin Griffin, son of the deceased, was sw:,, and examined. On the night of the 31st of An he vv,is in bed in the same house with his WS' mother, and brother, when, two hours before Orj crow, he was alarmed by hearing a shot &ell the cries of his father ; the shot was fired into I%'; haus a through the door, and the bed lay oppositettlii; immediately after heard another shot filed oil .vj the door; it was the first shot struck his fatherl, it grazed the legs of his brother, who was in same bed; there was no noise or signal given be the shot was fired ; in half an hour after the cs, :: was opened, and a written notice found outsitleff the ground, it was brought in and read by the of the fire. The notice was, that we should soil death if we did not drop what we had in view were at thiS time herding on the farm under _I, Wheeler. Ryan was the man who occupied it, he was under notice to quit, though he still e°l tinued on the farm ; the hou•e was in a bogy the country lonesome. osf Mr. Yokes here explained—Some years ag? Ryan, a wealthy farmer, held a large districtur Bilboa under lease from Lord S radbroke, and took in several score of under-tenants upon the so that when his term expired the estate Was °I:4 yawl with poor occupiers. Mr. William Blonde, Lordship's agent, who was murdered the other (OP re-let the ground to those in possession, but it of no use, and he was obliged to forgive the heavy arrears of rent before lie could get them oolt in fact they absorbed the proceeds of the WII° estate to themselves and their families, and ght; Blood forgave them some years of arrears before d could clear the ground. They returned again, sri he was forced again to put them out. When dll: spec;able or wealliy farmer proposes for those 100 and attempts to locate himself, those people sure to frighten him out by threats and intimidatit#' conceiving that any other but themselves are usurPe:rfi, of the soil. Mr. Wheeler tenanted a farm 01; and lie was shot for so doing. Mr. Beery, anetbew respectable tenant, commenced budding and Pii proving on the estate, and he was served With. ole Rock notice to give up, or else —1 The vib estate of Lord Stradbroke in this district coritte, 13,000 acre: ; and the people in that part of l:ef country are all Ryans and Kennedys, and will none but themselves to occupy it—thus prevents; any person of respectability from living there. I l'Sge had liberty from Lord Stradbroke to build a poll t barrack there, and I am determined to go on olio it, notwithstanding the systematic opposition whi'bei is offered by those persons. A whole family tit •• Connells) were immolated on this property o,,,Jehi years ago, all arising from the same cause. I'l mason employed to superintend the barrack has shed week received an incendiary notice, that if he der build a barrack for " Police or Proctors," lie sh°lll suffer for it. The Jury found a verdict of " Wilful nuclei against some person or persons unknown.