Shocking Charge
Much excitement was caused at liismore, Ireland, by the arrest of Alice Sheehan, a ward maid at Lismere workhouse, on a charge of having caused the death by strangulation of a man named Magmer, who was an inmate in an infirm ward. The matter was brought under the notice of the Guardians by a man named Dwyer. whe stated to the Board that he was an inmate in the ward, and that he saw the prisoner strangle Eobert Magnier in bed, and put a bolster over his face after doing so. Dwyer added that he was so terrified that for fear she would do the same to himself he gave her money. The prisoner protests her innocence,
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 68, 9 December 1886, Page 3
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119Shocking Charge Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 68, 9 December 1886, Page 3
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