The Sun. — 1834-03-10 (London, England)

MOST CURIOUS FACT-A FAIRY TALE.  Yesterday, a poor old woman applied to the head po• lice office, and stated the following very curious circumstances :—She said her name was Kearns; she was a widow, and with her daughter, Mary Kearns, a very handsome young woman, lived at Toornevara, in the county Tipperary. Both supported themselves by needlework. About a fortnight since there came to the house a woman, whose name is since ascertained to be Mary Mac, otherwise Fitzgerald ; whose age seemed to be forty black-haired, a small red face, slightly pockmarked, wearing an old red coat, and a blue flannel petticoat. This woman pretended to be what the people in that part of the country designate " a fairy worn-an"—one who not only could tell fortunes, but knew the haunts of " the good people," and was able even to raise the d: ad. This wretch, by the story of her gifts, so influenced the mind of the young girl, that she believed Mary Mac to possess all the powers she boasted of. In a conversation with the young girl one day, she told her that her father was not dead; that she knew he was with the fairi.a, and asked the young girl if she could wish then to see her father. The young girl replied she was afraid ; but the fairy woman spoke to some accomplice who was concealed, and an answer was given in the hearing of the young girl. A voice was heard to declare, "I am your father." The girl asked him if he would not remain with them. " No," exclaimed the voice, " I cannot leave the fairies yet, but I shall be home with you in four days." This appeared to be glorious news to the deluded girl, and the fairy woman then told her that they would have to go to a place that it would require them two days to walk to and two to return, and that it would be necessary for them to procure some money, which she would have to , pay in a certain place before the father could he got back. Under this persuasion the'girl left the house with the fairy woma,. The mother was absent at the time, and on her return she discovered that her only child was taken from her, and their little home stripped of every article of value. The fairy woman, whose dress we have described, had, it is known, two companions, one a person who was called gay Fitzgerald, having black hair, cut short behind, wearing an old patched petticoat, with white pockets, and who is suppo-Td to be a man in woman's clothes. The other, called Peter Fitzgerald, a boy about twelve or thirteen years of age, spoke with a Limerick ace'llt• and wore a grey frieze coat, corduroy trousers, and a straw hat. These persons, with their dupe, have been traced horn Toornevara to Alonasterevan. The unfortunate mother of the girl appeared in the police-office, in a state of distraction, as her impression was that her daughter bad been murdered by these miscreants. So much is the character of this woman respected in the neighbourhood where she lives, that a reward of 501. has been offered by the inhabitants for the discovery of her daughter, and a letter was received at-the head-office from a magistrate at Toomevara, requesting the co-operation of the police, in searching for Mary Kearns, and apprehending those who have taken her from borne.—Dublin Morning Register, Thursday.