Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-08-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STATE OF IRELAND.  • At au early hour of the morning no fewer than three houses of farmers in the neighbourhool of Mil!street were simultaneously attacked by Moonlighters. 'they demanded arms, and in one instanoe of refusal broke into the house anffidestroyed all the furniture. The, attacked the house of a man named Coward, who tired on the party, compelling them to retire. The cause of these outrages is that the farmers selected for attach are suspected of negotiatiag for evicted farms in the district. No arrests have been made—A deliberately planned murder has been perpetrated on the highway between Ennis and Spancil Hill, which is about three and, a-half miles from Ennis. The victim was an old farmer named John Ili'Mahon, a tenant oaths estate of Lord Leconfield. He had come to town to celebrate a holiday. The details appear to be as follow M'afahon left Ennis for home about eight o'clock in company with three men named Flanagan, ilehir, and Keogh, all of whom were seated on a car. When about two miles outside the town, and an equal distance from their dolt!. nation in the locality of Spancil Hill, at a point known as Itoslevan Cross, three men umped from behind a low wall on the left hand side of the road. Having stopped the horse, enrol them approached the back of the car, and, addressing the deceased, said, " Are you ISl'Mahoe'. which, having been replied to in the affirmative, the speaker ordered him to get off the car, a request which Walahon firmly refused to comply with. A second man immediately drew a revolver and discharged it into M.Mabon's right side. ND:Mahon then leaped from the car, and ran along the road for about thirty yards, when he fell and expired a short time afterwards. The murderers did not leave the place until they had satisfied themselves that their victim was beyond human aid, and waited to , view the body, after which they decampe I, taking the direction from w hich they were first observed to approach the car. Two of aPalahou's companions ran away, while the third raised an alarm, and thus catped a report of the murder to reach the Ennis Constabulary. A number of pollee immediately searched the country around, bat they failed either to apprehend the murderers or to obtain any satisfactory information a aria., reasons are assigned for the crime, among them being this—that hi'llahon had taken a portion of the lands of Toureen, the late residence of Mr. James Hynes, formerly a solicitor, practising in Ennis, who. eon Francis was executed at Limerick for the murder of the herd Doloughty in the year libel. These lands, it apnea., became encumbered, and ultimately passed into the possession et the Bank of Ireland. They were advertised by the Ennia agents babe let for grazing purposes. There existed, however. a desire on the part of the people in that locality to leave the farm derelict. These circumstances, coupled with the fact that on the night of the lfith of July lat an armed party attacked Milfahon's eon at hi, own residence, Spancil Hill, giving him a Be% ere beating with Wake, is looked upon as calculated to give reasonable grounds for assuming that the murder is agrarian. In all other respects Walahon is represented as having been on friendly terms with Ms neighboure, and the party who accompanied him on his bomewani journey being unable to identify any of the miscreinm, the inference that the crime was the work of hired assaseine from a distant postal the county, or possibly from another county, finds acceptance. Mr. Reed, Divisional Magistrate, Athlone, who succeeded Mr. Cutfeed Lloyd, arrived at Ennis, and han since proceeded to the scene of the murder. Acting oaths principle of his predecessor, it is thought probable that the :givent of Mr. Reed will be followed by numerous arrests.—The murder is reported to have taken place in Waterford county of a farm labourer named Edward Harper, who had leen employed by a man named Moody. It is alleged that the cauae of the murder is that the deceased seduced the daagbter of his employer, who, it is alleged, murdered him.—An a count hatt reached Mallow of a most during attempt to rob the postman who carries the post from Dromaahane (a sub-office, dietant about three tni I. from Mallow) through the country lying between that place and Glashaboy. It appears that the postman, whose name le Duggan, started with his poet bags from Dromaffiane at the [Mai hour. He went on delivering letters on his route to Glaahaboy, and having arrived at a place called Carrigclecna at half.pnst ten in the day, two persons jumped over the ditch and called on him to ! stop. Not doing so, one of them caught and held him whilst the other took the post bags from him. The two persons had blackened Lees, and wore women's long elooks with hoods, which were on their heads. The postman resisted as much as he could, but his efforts were unavailing, and the two, were were disguised men, , very coolly and with great care read the superscriptions on each h tier and parcel in the bags. They informed the postman that the letters they were after were not in the bag. They inquired if he had served any e'ectments that day, meaning by that the service or delivery of e ectments by means of registered letters, and they , cautioned him not to deliver any more of each letters ill the district. They said that they had heard be had done so in the early part of the week. They did not retain any of the letters or parcels, and their obect seemed to be the intercepting of the delivery of e,ects 'mate in that district, so that they should not reach the hands of the parties for whom they were Intended. The constabulary at Glintaine and Mallow, and the postal authorities were informed of the matter. No arrests have been made. Three years ages robbery of the post tnok place at the very same spot, where the bags were taken from the postman, Daniel Burns.- The nomination of candidates for the representation of Waterford , county will take place on the 21st inst., and the polling ! On tte 27th. The selection of a candidate by the Parnellites is said to lie between Mr. Doherty, a local man, and Mr. John O'Connor, of Cork, an organiser of the National L.gue.—A man named Barrett, undergoing a chart term of imprisonment for robbery, has hanged himself in bis cell at Galway Gaol by a chain suspended from the cell window. This is the third suicide in the same waol within the last three months.