ful work about the business in Bagenalstown." "Yes," replied Perrin, "there is not an old voteen in the town who is not going mad about it." Sly then rejoined, "The lady will be proud anyway, if he could tell her mind ;" he also said, that Wynne had great babbling on the subject, and that if he (Sly) had been as wise in the beginning as in the latter end, he would not have had him at all; when Wynne came up to the priest, he did not come up stout, and he feared he would have staggered on it. Sly said, "that he caught hold of the reins, and he got a blow from Priest Walsh's whip on the forehead." Wynne then downed him with a hammer, and Styles then jumped upon the body; the mare was then let loose, and they then jumped on the body, and gave it some heavy kicks; Perrin observed, "Why did you not let him among the trees?" The prisoner answered, “Ah, what a warrior you are! We brought him to the bridge, and laid him before Brophy's door, who is a Catholic, and there is not a gentleman in the county who will not believe that he did not fall from his horse, unless, indeed, some should say he was murdered." I heard Perrin say, "What did you do with the hammer?" and the prisoner replied, "may your head and mine never ache until the hammer is found." The boy beside me then began to stir in the bed, and Perrin said, "The fellow is awaking." The men then went out, and I got upon a table at the gable end of the house, in order to hear what they were saying. All I heard was Sly bidding them good night. He then returned into the house and went to bed. I remained in his house

two months after this conversation, in order to finish the time which I had agreed to serve with him. I also had some potatoes sowed in his land, and wished to wait till they were dug.

Cross-examined.—Are you related to Corrigan ?—No. I would think you were, for I never heard two such memories in my life. Was the prisoner in his room when Cardiff and Perrin called?-He was, and came down to open the door. It is extraordinary that when the noise of rapping was so great you did not get up to let the men in? (No answer.) You say it was Perrin looked at you, and the boy with you, in the settle-bed, after he had come into the kitchen?—Yes. Then he must have known that the prisoner was about telling him of this murder; but Sly would not tell where the hammer was? He would not, If Sly told about the hammer, and where it was, and that it was not afterwards found where you de scribed, would not your story be disbelieved? I am telling only the truth. Nobody would insinuate the contrary. Were you examined at the inquest ? Yes. Were you not sworn to tell the whole truth? Yes. Did you say a word about this conversation?-I answered everything that was asked. Did you know all they were inquiring about?-I did. And yet you did not say a word about so material a matter as this conversa, tion? Did you speak to Mr. Moloney then?—I did not. Are you able to read?-I am not. Did you often repeat the conver sation since it took place?-No. And yet the words are precisely the same as those sworn to in your informations? (No answer.)

Patrick Fleming examined. -I

was living with Sly at the time Mr. Walsh was killed. I used to sleep with J. Doyle, in the kitchen. Some time after the murder I heard the prisoner curse and swear that he knocked down old blind Jack Walsh. He was pretty hearty when he said this. Two policemen were present at the time. Cross-examined.-I cannot say when this was said, The prisoner uttered the words without speaking to any one. He said it to himself. I left Sly's, and ran away to Holmes's, in the county of Wexford. I left him, being unwilling to stop with him after the priest was killed. He did not settle with me.

Mr. Martley. You want, however, to settle him.

Arthur Byrne. My brother keeps a public-house in Ballinree. Cardiff and Perrin came to the place at nightfall, on the Friday after the murder of the priest. They got spirits, which they took away with them.

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Mr. Berwick. Is that all you know? Witness.-Yes.

Mr. Berwick. Then you may go back again.

Mr. Tickell stated, that he had several witnesses whom he offered for the cross-examination of the prisoner's counsel, because they did not corroborate the evidence given by some witnesses for the Crown.

For the defence, one of the policemen stated by Fleming to have been present when Sly said, "he had knocked down old blind Jack Walsh," positively denied that any such expression had been used by Sly.

Walter Perrin examined. I am nephew to the prisoner; I was in Mr. Kavanagh's service in July last; I remember my uncle being

in Borris the night of Mr. Walsh's death; he had no horse with him upon that occasion ; I took a message from my uncle to my mother between ten and eleven o'clock that night; he appeared to have taken liquor; I accompanied him from Borris-house to the town; we went to my mother's house, and she had applied a cold smoothing-iron to his forehead, where he had got a blow; he proceeded home the shortest road after this.

Jane Perrin examined. I live in the town of Borris; I am the prisoner's sister; I recollect the night the deceased met his death; that day Sly dined with me, and left his mare in my stable; he parted from me about eleven o'clock; he went out before this to Borris-house, and on his return had a lump on his forehead; I put a cold smoothing-iron to it; he said he had struck his head against the bough of a tree, his mare going very fast at the time.

John Cardiff examined.-I am steward to Mr. Kavanagh, of Borris; I recollect the evening of the death of Mr. Walsh; I saw Sly that evening in the servants' hall; the following evening I and Frank Perrin went to Sly on the business of bringing him to his brother to see if two leases could be broken; the election petition was going on; he sat down in the kitchen; he saw a settle-bed in the kitchen, but did not examine it, neither did Perrin. Said, in reference to Mr. Walsh's death that the town was in an uproar, and that it was not safe to be out. Sly never said a single word about having shared in the murder.

Cross-examined.It would be foolish to implicate myself. Drank to-day, but not for the purpose of making ourselves up on this occa

sion. Did not hear that the deceased was going to London prior to his death upon an election petition.

William Little examined.-I am uncle to Sly. I am eightyfour years of age. I have never said a word in a stable or out of a stable about Sly having been in danger about the murder. He never spoke a word to me upon the subject.

Mr. Martley said they had Wynne and Styles present, if the Crown wished to examine them: This offer was declined,

Dr. Rawson.-I examined the head of the late Mr. Walsh on the Monday after he was found dead. A fall from a horse could decidedly have caused the fractures I saw on the head.

Cross-examined. I could not judge of the nature of the contusions in consequence of not seeing the head in sufficient time. A gentleman who saw it at an earlier period could give a more accu rate opinion. There was a diversity of opinion among the medical men who were at the inquest.

The jury, in less than ten minutes, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

PERJURY.-At the same Assizes for March on Monday, Anne Rooney, a country girl, was indicted for perjury, contained in a voluntary information sworn by her before W. Moloney, Esq., J. P., on the 26th of August, 1835, touching the death of the rev. Mr. Walsh. Mr. Moloney said, that on the 22nd of August last, Anne Rooney, the prisoner, came before him, and deposed to the effect, that she hired herself as binder, to one Howley, Kilgreanybridge, a week before the murder

of the rev. Mr. Walsh; that on the night of the murder she saw Sly, Styles, and Wynne, come into Howley's house, and heard Sly whisper to Styles, that he should go to the bridge, and wait till he heard the priest coming, and then whistle; she stated also, that herself, the wife of Howley, and her daughter Kitty, went down the field; that they hid themselves behind bushes for half an hour; that then they heard the priest riding up slowly, and whistling; that the three men came up; that Sly seized the rein and head of the priest's horse, and said, "We want you;" that the priest said, "If you want money or drink, I'll give it to you, my boys;" but that they said;-"No, we want you; it's often you dragged us through your teeth, and now we'll drag you; that they then pulled him off his horse, and that he begged of them to give him two minutes to pray, and to stand off from him; this they refused, and then they murdered him, striking him with a hammer, jumping upon him, &c.; that when they had murdered him, they went away; that they came back to see if he was dead, and that they (the party of females before mentioned) remained, through fear, under the bushes, until daylight, lest they should meet any of the murderers. governor of Naas gaol proved that the prisoner, Anne Rooney, was confined in that gaol on the day father Walsh was killed and for sixteen days after-namely, until the 15th of August. The woman Howley and her daughter deposed that they never saw Anne Rooney in their life before. She was found Guilty, and sentenced to two months imprisonment, and

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to be transported for seven years.

At the Carlow Summer Assizes, Hugh Corrigan, James Doyle, and Patrick Flannery, were indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury, in their evidence on the trial of Archibald Sly, for the murder of the rev. J. Walsh, of Borris, at the last assizes.

The jury, without a moment's hesitation, found a verdict of Guilty.

Baron Smith sentenced the prisoners to be imprisoned for four months in the county gaol, and then to be transported for seven years. His Lordship observed, that as one of them, Doyle, had expressed contrition by the acknowledgment of his guilt, he should interfere to have his sentence commuted, so that the culprit would not be sent out of the country.

LEICESTER, July 29.

CHARGE OF MURDER.

Henry Roper, a labouring man, apparently about sixty-five years of age, was indicted for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Tebbutt, of Kegworth, on the night of the 10th of December, 1802.

It appeared from the statements of the witnesses that the deceased was the daughter of a respectable farmer, who formerly lived near Kegworth, in this county. In the year 1802, when she was about thirty-six years of age, she resided with her brother William, who had then recently commenced business as a mercer and draper in that village, and for whom, he being a bachelor, she kept his house. About 10 o'clock on the night of the 10th of December, in the year

1802, she left her mother's house to return home to that of her brother. Her shortest way lay through a lane called Tinker'slane, and a pathway across an orchard called "the Hall-close." She did not, however, come home that night; and at six o'clock on the following morning she was found by two young men, lying on the ground near the path in the Hall-close, her cloths turned up so as to expose her limbs, and several marks of bruises on her person. They immediately gave an alarm, and some of the neighbours hastened to the spot. The deceased was unable to answer any questions that were put to her, but mumbled something that was unintelligible. She was removed in an arm-chair, first to a forge which was near, and thence, when it was ascertained who she was, to her brother's house, where she was put to bed. Her brother Edward, who had shortly before commenced practice as a surgeon at Castledonnington, about three miles from Kegworth, was immediately sent for. He found her, upon his arrival, quite insensible, and in the course of an hour she expired. An inquest was held on the body. The coroner and the jury found marks, as if of pressure, on the sides of the breasts, and also bruises on the thighs, knees, and ancles; but not to an extent to have occasioned death. The sister-in-law of the deceased also observed those marks; but she did not perceive any appearances on her clothes from which she could infer that her person had been violated. She did not, however, make any examination beyond what the men had made; and the persons by whom a more delicate examination had been made, were now dead. The prisoner was at

that time residing at Kegworth, and not the slightest suspicion ever lighted upon him. There was another person, however, upon whom suspicion did fall, but it appeared to have been without any sufficient foundation, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against some person unknown. In eleven days after Miss Tebbutt's death the prisoner, who had always borne a good character, was married by the rev. Mr. Dalby to a young woman, named Ellen Cross, the bans having been published on the three preceding Sundays. He continued to reside with his wife at Kegworth for two or three years after their marriage, and they then removed to the parish of Plomtree, in Nottinghamshire, which is only about ten miles distant from Kegworth, and where they had continued to live very creditably ever since, and reared a family of several children. The prisoner enjoyed good health until about a year ago, when it became impaired. In the month of April last he was suffering from severe indisposition; and on the 29th of that month, about two o'clock at midnight, his daughter called up their next door neighbour, a man of the name of Murden, in the same walk of life as the prisoner, but who occasionally preached and gave religious instruction. As Murden was entering the prisoner's room, he heard him say, "I have done murder," which he repeated twice. Murden said "Nonsense, man; it is a temptation of Satan's." The prisoner replied, "It is not; it is God's truth, and I'll not deny it. Murden then inquired of him whom he had murdered? He replied "Miss Tebbutt, of Kegworth, who lived with her brother

at the top of the village." asked him "how he had done it?". The prisoner said, that "he had met her in the Hall-close, at night, he did not lay violent hands upon her, but he ravished her, and then left her there, exposed to the cold; and that was what caused her death." He went on to say, that for the last two months, he could not sleep for thinking of it; and when he used to hear his wife and daughter speaking about Elizabeth Tebbutt, it used to make his flesh creep on his bones, and he used to tell them to hold their noise. While the prisoner was making these declarations he was in great pain, and his daughter and her husband were holding him in the bed. His wife was sleeping in another room. Murden then prayed with the prisoner, who immediately afterwards fell into a doze, and the former lay down on the bed with him, and remained there till 5 o'clock in the morning. The declaration of the prisoner having been communicated to Mr. Edward Tebbutt, the surgeon, that gentleman visited the prisoner on the 5th of May. He first asked him how he did; and on the prisoner telling him how poorly he was, he inquired of him if he slept well? The prisoner said, he could not get any sleep; and upon Mr. Tebbutt inquiring if that caused by any distress of mind, the prisoner said, "I know what you are come about; you are come to inquire about your sister Elizabeth's death; it was I who did everything that was done to her; and no one else." On the 10th of May the prisoner was taken before Mr. M. Philips, the magistrate; and on his examination before him, he stated that in the year 1802,early one morning in the winter, but he

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