Widnes Examiner. — 1884-03-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE MAYO MURDER CONSPIRACY.—The trial was commenced at Cork Assizes on Tuesday of six men charged with being concerned in conspiracies to murder various unpopular persons in county Mays. The jury before whom the men were indicted at the winter Assizes failed to arrive at a verdict. The principal prisoner is a man named Patrick William Nally, who is alleged to have planned some of the outrages committed while resident in this country. One of the ohief witnesses is an " informer" named Coleman, who while a sworn member of the secret and criminal society was giving information to the police. On Wednesday, Patrick M'Evilly, of Manchester, was called to depose to the prisoner Nally's operations in furtherance of the plots at the time he was engaged "in the provision way" in Manchester. Nally, he said, was, in the habit of receiving parcels containing revolvers and sending them to Ireland;where they were intended to "do good work during the winter." Vlie witness said he ones heard arrangements being made for sending a man over to Ireland to shoot a person who had taken a farm formerly held by Nally's father. Evidence was given on Thursday in the interest of the prisoners. A very remark able feature in the defence was that a priest was called to gate that from his "general character and reput Mon " the informer Coleman, who had been one of hie parishioners, WAS not worthy of credit en his oath.  At Bi-Past a tailor's daughter has obtained a verdict, with £2lO damages, againet a publican, named MiConville, for breach of promise of marriage. lieplying to an influential deputation at the War Office, on Wednesday, who opposed the abolition of the Scotch regimental feather bonnet. Lord Hartington said the Government had resolved. in deference to the strong feeling existing on the subject in Scotland, 1p deice no change this year with regard to the bonnet, deferring arty decision until next year. At Stratford (Essex), on Wednesday, John Minns, 64, I general dealer, was cluarged with stealing one pennyworth of ceke from the Wesleyan Chapel at East Ham, the trustees of which felt compelled to prosecute, as much of their coke had lately been stolen. The prisoner, who denied the offence, and who had already been a week in jail, was sentenced to one month's hard labour. At.Sucderland Police Court, on Wednesday, the bearing of the cb trrs of embezzlement and falsification of accounts stgainA W. Ii Dixon, shipowner and secretary of the Steam Shipping Company, was resumed. Evidence was given showing that the prisoner had altered the bank passbook to cover a deficiency of £1.200, and had also made false statements in what purported to be balance sheets. He was committed for. trial. Tbe Blackburn magistrates, on Wednesday morning, fined William Henry Whalley, weaver, of Damen, 20s and costa for bre.kitig the communicating glass in a railway carriage on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, between Blackburn and Lower Darwen, at eleven o'clock at night. The defendant said be was drunk, and broke the glass net knowing what it was for. Upon the breaking of the glass the vacuum brake was applied, and the train was delayti 16 minutes. EATS COMPOUND OF LINSEED, Aniseed, Benega, Squill, Tolu Jrc., Ninth Ohlorodyne. 9kd,, Is. ijd.. 21. 9.1., of Chemists. Advt.