SUPPOSED TRIPLE MURDER IN IRELAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 2547, 1 November 1884, Page 3

SUPPOSED TRIPLE MURDER IN IRELAND.

A Cork correspondent writes to the Liverpool Weekly Mercury of September 6 :

The police are prosecuting inquiries in reference to an extraordinary discovery of remains in a well, near Castletown Rocbe. The jury at an inquest held on Wednesday, found that the remains were those of Mrs Sheehan, her daughter, and son, but there was no evidence to show how they came by their deaths. It is believed that some new light will before loug be thrown upon the mystery, and that the perpetrators will be brought to justice. A reporter who visited the scene of the occurrence states that the well in which the bodies were found is about 80 feet deep. It waß originally constructed by Mr George Bond Lowe for the accommodation of his tenants, but it ran dry, and for some time bofore the disappearance of Mrs Sheehan and her two children it had not been used. The well is not situated upon the land which Mrs Sheehan held, but iD a straight line across the fields. It would be about 900 yards distant from the farmhouse she occupied. The opening was exposed, and the deep recess became the receptacle for all kinds of rubbish. The recent drought induced the farmers of the district to have the well examined with a view of ascertaining if water were to be had for a few days. A man was engaged in removing the debris, a temporary windlass and a bucket being employed to raise the stuff to the surface. Two skulls were disinterred, and the man, becoming alarmed, left the work. Another person, named Twohy, volunteered his services, and the remains were removed on Tuesday. After the inquest the parts were collected, and received decent burial in the churchyard of Rockmills. Mrs Sheehan, who is supposed to be one of the deceased, held two farms, consisting of 70 acres,

at Carrig Downing, sitnated between Fermoy and Mallow. There lived her a daughter, a son named Thomas, and an elder son named William. She had also a son John, who was married, and resided in a publichouse some distance away. This man still lives near Castletown Roche, and is the only member of the family residing in that locality. About the time of the disappearance of Mrs Sheehan she was negotiating for the marriage of her son William with the daughter of a farmer named Browu. She stipulated for a fortune of .£3OO, but Brown was not prepared to give such a dowry. "William disputed his mother's objections, and arranged to marry Miss Brown on a fortune of £l7O ; but in the meantime the mother disappeared, and William stated as a cause for her sudden departure that he had given her £3OO out of his marriage portion, and that mother, daughter, and son Thomas had gone away. It was pretty freely rumoured at the time that Mrs Sheehan intended, with her daughter, to seek another place and act for themselves, aud their departure came in no way with surprise. John, however, alleges that his suspicions were aroused by the very sudden departure of the members of his family, and that he communicated with the police. The latter have no recollection and no record of such report. After the disappearance of Mrs Sheehan, the son took possession of the farm, and and held it until a year ago, when he ■was evicted for non-payment of rent,and left with his wife for Australia. The farm has since been " boycotted." The police have ascertained the address of William Sheehan, in Australia, and it is believed that in a short time he will be arrested by the colonial authorities. It is believed in the district that more than one person was engaged in the commission of the crime, which was evidently committed at or near Mrs Sheehan's residence • and it required some assistance to remove the bodies to the well, a distance by road of over a mile. That they should have suddenly left without friends and relatives making inquiries is regarded as a suspicious circumstance in itself.

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