The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1873-03-27 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE GREAT MURDER CASE AT OMAGH.  The jury empanelled to try Sub-Inspector Montgomery kr the murder of Mr. Casse, the bank cashier at Newtownstewart, were discharged a few minutes after midnight on Tuesday, they being unable to wee to a madlot, and it being the opinion of a medical man that the health of at leant one of the jurors would be in Amor of permanent injury if he was longer detained. The tainer, who is said to have seemed terriblyanxioas =the entrance of the jury at midnight, evinced great relief on hearing the result of their deliberations, and proceeded to converse freely with his Junior counsel, mid shook warmly the hand of a gentleman who appeared to be congratulating him on the result. Serjeant Armstrong, on behalf of the Crown, applied that the arises should be adjourned to the 27th Inst., and that the prisoner should then be again placed on his triaL Judge Barry said that, considering the importance of the case, and the interest of the prisoner himself, he could not but accede to the application. The prisoner then made, personally, an application that the Court should &aka counsel for his defence. The heavy expenses of the last two trials had been borne by his friends, and the funds were now completely exhausted. Mr. Collins, the prisoner's attorney, endorsed the application, but his lordship said he could not entertain it; all he could now do was to adjourn the assizes. The application, he added, should be made direct to the Government. Mr. Collins said that he had acted without a penny of remuneration; and as the Court refused to assign counsel, he should withdraw from that moment from the case. The prisoner was then remeved, and the Court adjourned.  It will be remembered by our readers, that the murder—for such it was beyond all dispute—was committed so far back as the 29th of June, 1871, in the back office of the Northern Bank at Newtownstewart ; the victim was Mr. Glass, cashier of the Bank. About four o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th, when the Bank had been closed for an hour, a maid-servant named Fanny M'Bride, looking through a glass door into the front office, was horrified to see blood, and called in a neighbour, who found the body of Mr. Glass on the floor of the beck office, with the skull cloven by repeated blows, and a file thrust into the ear. On the return of Mr. Strahan, the Bank maniger, later in the evening, it was found that £1,805 bad been abstracted from the Bank, most of which money was afterwards discovered In a sand or gravel pit at Grange Wood, near which a billhook was deposited exactly fitting the wounds on the bead of the deceased. Suicide was obviously an impossible hypothesis, and no attemkat was made to set it up. Not the least shadow of suspicion rested on any human being except the prisoner; and the suggestion that a stranger might have get into the Bank through a window, either from the next house or from the street, was supported by no particle of proof or probability. From the first, indeed, suspicion appears to have fallen on the prisoner; not because he tare a bad character or was supposed to have a grudge against Mr. Glass, but simplx because towards him, and him alone, converged all the ordinary presumptions of guilt.  The Deily News, In oommenting upon the ease, remark.' : A case which has occupied the attention of the Assize Court at Omagh, in the county of Tyrone, for nearly a fortnight, has once more illustrated the patience of justiw. For the second time, Sub-Inspector Montgomery has been put on his trial for the murder of Mr. Gimes, the clerk in the Newtownstewart Rank on the 29th June, 1871. The proceedings in this painful case have excited intense interest in Ireland. An officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary occupies the same position, And is of the same class as commissioned ,offiesei intri.a= and Sub-Inspeotoe: "—---p b* *ell known in the dhleists Hkriliet place at the Autumn Ambito Ins* year. He had then been more than twelve soadas In pimps, al the veediet of a coroner's jui7, and the h•W bed been postponed Do long because of the strait feeling dreiblet him in the district. An application' Was even then made for a further postponement; and though it was refused, all jurymen living within five miles of Newtownatewart were asked to stand amide. After an investigation spread over several days the jury were unable to agree, and were discharged, and the prisoner was sent back to prison. The present trial has occupied more than ten days. Eighty-three witnames were examined, and the counsel for the defence made a speech ten hours in length. An the Judge said in his rimming up, the case has been, on the whole, one of the meet extraordinary and protracted ever tried in Ireland. It will be more protracted still. The jury deliberated for twelve hours, and at an early hour on Wednesday morning they declared that they were unable to agree, and were discharged, The whole trial has therefore to be gone through again, and will reoonimenoe next week.