ASSASSINATING A BOYCOTTER.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1229, 18 September 1885, Page 3

ASSASSINATING A BOYCOTTER.

A murder, which under the circumstances sunounding its p.-ipef,ration exceeds in savagery anything that has occurred in the most disturbed times was pt rpetrate I one Sunday recently, about one o’clock in a wood outside the town of \lillatrc-t. The victim was a young man of the laboring class, name! Michael Caahman, aged about twenty three years. For a good while past he was known as a prominent member of a band in the district devoted to the boycotting of those who had made themselves obnoxious to the popular movement. Employes of these people were visite I regularly ami prevented from engaging in their work and one of ihe theories of ihe murder is that he fell a victim at the hands .-f men who were deprived of a livelihood by the machinations of the band <-f which '’ashman was a leader. It is also alleged that he was under suspicion of Jus co omspiialo s of having given information to t ie police in whose company he was seen lately. However, with whatever motive, a terri )e brutal murder h-s been committed. It appears that Cashman atto dial last mass in Miilstr et, after which he immediately set out by himself for a place three miles distant to see his brother with tie object of asking him to come the next day to eu> some turf with him for their father. The r< a e to this place was by a path through the wood of D-dshane Castle, which is not more than half a mile from the town of Millst'eet. Hi! must, have got, into thin wood shortly after one o’clock, and at three his body was found dreidfiiilv mangle-1 and mutilated. His skull was battered in o pulp, the left eye was completely gone, and through the aperture the brain protruded. The condition of the unfortunate in in left him almost beyond recognition, Hishe nl rested against the base of a tree, Ihe look of widen was completely stripped, as if by contact with sharp stones Near his Uea ' was a boulder, twelve pounds in weight-, all smeared with blood and hair. It la con jeotnred that at least five pers -os we,e eo gaged in tho murder, as in the long lank grass pear the spot where the body was f.-und ,the_hair of five forms was discovered, and within reach was a heap of st-mes, evidently collected and bro ight from a distance. The police having got information of the occurrence, procee 'ed to i lie spo! and removed the body to the Court House in Mill street. Here a post mortem examination was mi- e by toe doctor, who traced sixteen wounds on the head. A bullet was also found in the right groin and another under the I, f shoulder blade, indica ing that firea-ms were also used. An inquest was held, but is was of a formal character, evidence being only taken a< to the identification and ihe cause of death, an open ve diet being icturned. The police made two arrests," 1 but the men were discharged for want of evi denco. The police ate engaged in -nves'igating the affair, lint np to the present they appear to be without the sli.h ost elm to the perpetrators of the outra-e. • Captain PlttukcWs special Resident Magistrate, goa

been inquiring into the murder, but noth ng fresh has transpired. At the inquest held on the Imdy of the murdered nian u wis stated that there were over 20 wounds, inclnding a bullet wound in the hip, ‘Two men who Found deceased swore that they saw three men, named Sheehan, Flynn, and Naughton. near thespot ; hut into this part of the inquiry the police did not desire to go. fearing that it might defeat the ends of justice, and the jury retained an op-n verdict. The remains were interred in the presence of a,large number ot Nationa'ists.