Glasgow Courier. — 1847-04-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

INTERMENT OF THE DECEASED ASSASSIN. In our last publication we gave the partieulara of the inquest upon the body of Roe, one of the murderers of Mr. Prim and the I policeman, and wounded by the former in his last struggle. In reference to the demise of this villain, we consider it worthy now to chronicle a rather extraordinary scene which took place at Ras, with respect to his interment. The inquest was held on Wednesday, and on the following day the relations of Roe came to hells police station to claim the body, bringing with them an ornamented hearse and a jaunting-car to convey it away. The pollee stated that they had received orders from the sub-inspector that the body should not be removed till the following morning, and consequently those claiming it were obliged to depart, but Roes wife stated that she would put the remains of her I husband into as fine a coffin as that which enclosed the body of the murdered Mr. Prim, and that he should have quite as respectable a funeral. The speech having been overheard by several of the inhabitants of Hells, amongst whom Mr. Prim was universally and deservedly beloved, their indignation was excited to the highest extreme, and the persons who came for the murderer's remains were refused refreshment or admittance to every house of entertainment, or otherwise, in the village, The resentment of the people, however, did not stop here. On the following morning, as early as six o'clock, two men presented themselves at the Relic Polico Barrack, and asked for the body of Roc, stating that they were his nearest kin. The remains, which had been by the previous order of the Coroner placed in a deal coffin, were immediately given to those persons, who deposited them in a car and proceeded in the direction of Shortalstown, the scene of the murder. They were joined as they went along by immense crowds of persons who had been waiting for them, and a procession of about 200, from the districts of hells and Stoneyford, provided with guns, blunderbusses. pickaxes, shovels, &c. was soon formed. This motley force marched in triumph to the tut n of the road at Shortalstown, where the ruthless deed had been perpetrated, and there having dug a pit in the ditch, fifteen or sixteen feet deep, they flung in the coffin, and hurling upon it immense stones, which must have smashed the body to atoms they filled up the grave and fit ed a volley over it in token of ;heir triumph. The concourse, which appeared to he veay much excited, then returned to hells, where they encountered the wife and father of Roe, who had again come with the hearse and jaunting car to claim the body, and so exasperated against them where the people that they at once surrounded them, and would have torn them to pieces but for the providential presence and interference of the broth, rs of the murdered Mr. Pi itn,  and sonic other persons of influence, who with great difficulty prevailed upon the mob to allow the wretched man and woman to depart without injury. So far all appearance of violence and disorder had terminated, but on the day but one following, which was Sunday, considerable apprehension was excited amongst the authorities by a report which reached them that a body of men from the borders of Tipperary had determined to come for the purpose of disinterring Roe's body and carrying it off to give it "Christian burial," and that the people of Kells were prepared to turn out in large force, with arms, to prevent the success of the design. A bloody encounter being feared, Jos. Greene,R.M , Peter Blake, CL., and T. Trent, S.l.,Esqs , with a large police force, were early on the ground to preserve the peace, but fortunately no appearance of any assembly for a hostile encounter took place. However, the people of Shortalstown protested, it is presumed from a superstitious feeling, against the body remaining interred by the road-side in their locality, and we believe that in consequence Mr. Greene ordered the remains to he exhumed and to be transferred to the precincts of the county jail, there to be re-interred in the burial ground assigned to similar criminals. No trace has been obtained of the other miscreants concerned in the daring and diaboLcal murder. —Kilkenny Moderator.