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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 503, 6 April 1869, Page 2

One cold day a very pretty girl stooped and bought a paper of a ragged little Irish boy. "Poor fellow," said she, "ain't yiu v4ry cold?" " I was ma'am, before you smiled," was the reply. A young man for money had murdered a magistrate and a near neighbor of Mr Tiench'a The informer and chief witness against the prisoner was his accomplice, and was under cress-examination by the prisoner's council. "One scene," says Mr Trench, "struck me much." After the wit-^ ness had detailed how he had himself under*, taken to be the murderer, and had twice stolen behind Mr Hall for the purpose of shooting him in the back, and had only given, up his design because he fancied it was " unlucky," the prisoner's counsel asked: — " Then it was not your conscience that smote you ?"— " Not a bit," said the man. •• And you stole up behind the poor old gentleman, to shoot him for money?"- "I did." "I suppose you would do anything for money?" —"I would," replied the man, quite unappalled, but growing desperate. The lawyerstill continued to excite him. "You would shoot* your father for money, I suppose ?" — " I would !" exclaimed the man furiously. "Or your mother ?"— " I would." "Or your sister 1"— il I would." •' Or your toother ;" continued the counsel— "Ay, or yourself either !" cried the infuriated ruffian, almost leaping from his chair and turning round so> suddenly within a few feet of his cross-ex-aminer's head than his usually undaunted nerve seemed appalled by the ferocity of the* savage. . . The effect upon the jury waa the very reverse of what had been intended by the counsel. The unblenching effrontery of the witness convinced the jury of the truth of his statement, and a verdict of "Guilty" 1 1 was retjnrned.— From Trench's "Ireland."