AUCKLAND

Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 16, 23 December 1884, Page 3

AUCKLAND

This Day. Seven hotelkeepers were charged in thePolice Court yesterday with Sunday trading; and the charge in each case was dismissed. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon William Sheehan was lodged in the police station, charged with having murdered his mother, sister, and brother, at Castletownroch, County Cork, in 1877,

The bodies were found in a we;l near the residence occupied by the Sheehans, in September last, ahcTtlfeir discovery caused enqniries to be instituted, which led to the indentification of the bodies to be those of Mrs Sheehan and _her son and daughter, who : iiad mysteriously disappeared under suspicious circumstances seven years previously. William Sheehan at the time of their disappearance gave out that tlrey had gorie to America, and about two'years' before the discovery oh. the bodies bo himself left the country. The circumstances which led to his. j arrest and the stone oi his dreadfu! • crime of which he. is .accused. is fully | nai'fated in the Auckland papers. I . Later.V i Th o pri soner Wj llia m She ehan was charged at the PoTice Oourt this morniug with the Castletownroch murder, the pri soner wa? remauded.. for eight j day - . Suprendent Thomson proseeuted and Mr Napier is for the defence. Sheehan arrived by the Dorie about eighteen moaths ago and he has been shepparded by the police ever since.