The Sun. — 1841-11-18 (London, England)

THE MURDERS AND SUICIDE  AT BURNLEY BARRACKS. FURTHER PARTICULARS.  • The barracks erected 1821, cover a. large area, and are generally occupied by both cavalry and infantry. At present there are stationed there two or three troops of the Queen's Bays, or Second Dragoon Guards, occupying the cavalry part of the barracks. The infitntry quarters are tenanted by two companies of the 60th Rifles, under the command of Major Cockburn. The regiment quitted Windsor about two months ago, and its present headquarters are at Bolton, under the command of Colonel Sir John Maclean.  Lieutenant O'Grady, during the latter part of the tragic occurrences, had been placed by his brother officers on the hearth-rug, and attended by Mr. Cohen, the assistant-surgeon of the regiment ; the principal surgeon, Dr. Fraser, being at the head-quarters at Bolton. The wounded officer exclaimed to those about him, "Oh ! I have long expected this from that villain !" and immediately afterwards, he asked, "Is that poor girl dead ?" Mr. Cohen told him she was not. Taking an officer's hand, Lieutenant O'Grady said to him, with much earnestness and emotion, " Oh, this is a bad way to die. Any way to die but this !" Mr. Cohen then desired him to keep himself quiet—that perhaps all would not be so bad as he anticipated—and he endeavoured, , by holding the lips of the wound together, and compression, to stay the blood which was now pouring from the wound. Mr. O'Grady looked at him, and, speaking as if in pain and with difficulty, said, " Oh, it is of no use, I shall not live many hours. This is the death of me." He was then placed on a table, conveyed to his own room, and laid upon the bed. By this time Mr. White, a surgeon in practice at Burnley (which is distant about a mile from the barracks), arrived, and, with Mr. Cohen, attended the unfortunate, gentleman during the remainder of the night. He lingered till halfpast ten o'clock on Monday morning, and then expired. When the poor girl was raised from the ground, it was found that she was bleeding profusely from everal wounds inflicted below the shoulder on the left side and on the back. She appeared to suffer much pain ; and twice in paroxysms of pain she exclaimed, " Oh Morris! oh Morris !" She survived only till eleven o'clock the same night, about 2i hours after the fatal deeds. Robert Morris was almost instantly raised, and carried to his room ; he expired in two or three minutes afterwards, having apparently stabbed himself with such desperation, as to inflict two or three mortal wounds, beside others of a less serious nature. lie never spoke after the fatal acts above described. The • sergeant-major picked up the knife, which is about a foot in length,—being an old carver, much- ground, and so thin that the back had almost as sharp an edge as the true edge ; the point, too, was very sharp. The force with which this deadly weapon had been used in its too fatal success, against three lives, was evident from the blade being quite bent for several inches next the point, and the point being also turned, as if it had come into contact with some hard substance, probably the resistance of a bone.! With a few particulars, as to the deceased persons, we must close this account. The unfortunate officer, Wm. Stainer O'Grady, was of a large and somewhat distinguished Irish family, being the nephew of the late Lord Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer (Baron O'Grady), who, in 1831, was raised to the Peerage, by the title of Viscount Guillamore, and died in April, 1840. The young officer, who has now come to an untimely end, was cousin to the present Lord Guillamore. Mr. O'Grady's father was one of the nine sons of Darby O'Grady, Esq., of Mount Prospect, county Limerick. We believe the deceased's widowed mother at present resides at Dublin or Kingstown ; and, if report be correct, this will be the second time she is doomed to mourn over the premature death of a son. A brother of the deceased, we are told, was shot in a duel some years ago with a Captain Smith—an affair which at the time caused considerable sensation in Dublin, where it occurred. The deceased officer was in his twenty-ninth or thirtieth year. He is described to us as having had many of the characteristics of the young Irish gentleman ; he was hot-headed, and at times intemperate, but was much liked by the soldiers of the regiment. The dying officer declared to the chaplain, that he had lost his life in endeavouring to save the life of another. Robert Morris, whose age we were told by one person was twenty-eight or twenty-nine, and by another twenty-four or twenty-five, was a Scotchman, a native of Aberdeen, a private in the regiment, but also employed, as we have stated, as mess-waiter. We believe ho had been about eleven years in the regiment. He was considered a good, steady, trustworthy man, e, and nothing had been alleged against him, except some former quarrel's with the girl, to whom he appeared devotedly attached. It is said- that Lieutenant O'Grady once ordered him into confinement. for sonic neglect of duty, or act of insubordination ; but what that was we could not ascertain. Isabella Haddon, as she was generally called, only completed her twentieth year on the 21st April last. We learn that this wretched girl, the fatal cause of all this crime, had long been of indifferent character. When only sixteen years of age, she married a man named Patrick Territt, a private in the 97th Regiment, then stationed at Burnley Barracks. She has for four or five years lived separate from her husband, who, we believe, is now with his regiment in Malta or Corfu, and she was employed by her mother about the kitchen, assisting in • in cooking, &c. She has left an infant, a daughter, about two years old ; this child was placed out at nurse in Burnley or the neighbourhood.  offer Lord Cloncilasurry two pf.zes of 50/. each for the host Prize Essays on M: nurd and Poad making, in order to promote the objeeta of Cio Azticultural bociety of Ireland.  ErENING