The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-10-02 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ILDI., and Sub-Inspector M'Cardle and Law. Tee jury having viewed the body, the face of the deceased being all mangled with the wounds he had received, the following evidence was taken :—SubInspector Law said he saw Lord Mountmorres on Saturday last, in Clonbur, about seven in the evening. Ile spoke to him for a quarter of an hour, and shortly afterwards saw him speaking to lived. constable O'Callaghan. His lordship was then quite well. He did not see him afterwards until he saw his murdered body. The body was found at a place called Mooney—To the I Jury: The deceased had no police protection. Some time ago he had a guard of two constables, but he dispensed with it. There was a house within 300 yards of where the body was found. The body was lying on the back across the road, the feet being about four feet from the wall on one side, and the head about four feet from the wall on the other. His lordship bad no signs of drink on him. No car could have passed near him. IL was armed with a pistol. Head Constable O'Callaghan deposed that on Saturlay he saw his lordship speaking to Sub-inspector SlcArdle, of Ballinrobe. Ile had a conversation with his lordship in reference to the land meeting fixed for iunday. About half-peat nine that night a messenger came to the barracks to say that Lord Mountmorres'a horse and car had come to Ebor Hall without him. Witness sent a patrol along :he road in the direction his lordship had taken some. The next he heard was that his lordship was found on the road in a dangerous way. Dr. negarty was sent for, and the body was removed :o the house Of a man named Hugh Flanagan, but Flanagan refused to allow it in, and it was then ;aken on to Ebor Hall. A shot could have been heard at Flanagan's house. His lordship had a coded pistol in his pocket, but it was not discharged. —Hugh Flanagan was next examined, and said he was afraid cf having the body in for fear that some. king belonging to him might not be alive that day ;welve months.—Dr. Ilcgarty said he was called o attend Lord Mountmorres on Saturday night at about ten o'clock. lie found him lying on the road shout a mile from Clonbur. He was removed to Ebor Hall, where witness examined him, and found bullet wound in his forehead, two in the neck, two in the abdomen, and one on the right thumb. The wound on the forehead had marks as if of powder surrounding the orifice, which showed that the bullet that entered had been fired at a short distance. Witness, had that day made a post-mortem examination of the body, assisted by Dr. Maguire, Cong, and Dr. O'Connor, A.M.D., Oughrerard. They found that the bullet which had entered the forehead nearly in the centre had passed obliquely downwards and to the right, and was lodged in the floor of the orbit. The bullet fired into the front of the neck had made its exit about three inches below the right ear, another bullet that had entered on the left side of the neck was found lodged in the soft tissue of the side of the neck, having traversed the spinal column of the vertebraes. They found a bullet wound on the left side of the abdomen, about the level of the twelfth rib, and found another bullet mark immediately behind that on the same level. He found a fracture of the right thumb. The wound in the forehead was quite sufficient to cause death.—The jury, after being some time in deliberation, found about seven o'clock a verdict of "Wilful murder against someone unknown."