THE CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER AT INVERCARGILL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 285, 22 March 1877, Page 3

THE CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER AT INVERCARGILL.

The Invercargill correspondent of the Ota'jo Daily Times supplies that journal with the following account <>f the charge of wilful murder preferred against John Monaghan, which was mentioned in our telegrams of yesterday : A crime amounting at least to manslaughter, if not to murder. has been perpetrated here. A laboring man named T.loni.i? Cassarly came into town on Sat-urday night wick two others working ■with him at some fencing about the Toi Toifj. During the night ho (Cassarly) lodged with Mr. Cavanagh, in Deveroiistveet, but on .Sunday ne joined others of a pji-iy at Silfce's Hibernian JdU/tel, Deestreet, and c .mmeiicdd drinking heavily, 'l'jis intlulgjsice in INTOXICATING liquor was continued by the party throughout Saud.ty—they never leaving their tump>-r:u-y lvsid-.-nce. Among them was a man jmuud .J .: t ii Monaglnm, and ajiot.oar O'i Jrieii. Some growling t.>"k pked between Cassarly and H« liagiiau, Ijiic ;>.•>[>. u - e;ii:ly passed over. All slept in the 1.0 ol '•n Handily night —Cassarly and ()'occupying the same bidr.-K>;u, ® Early «>u if- >uclay morn rag they wav a'.v->U:j by who c.uiu inia t.ie bcdi-oo.il, ru.l wanted. '• to fight it out" wit'; C.-is ; i tvly, au.l to some mat-rei-i:i icj i'.'i woun them on the }>revf .i.-Ti-vpuui O'Brien aveiirotl lie li.iuw n > t'i d.s'iute, a;ul Oussatiy poc.i----p..0-.T_d t.;e notion «»r iig'tirig over anything tliat lir.d • passed. M.»ai:g;u;u i.i-sist-rl <'. i i'uiitiag—" having t.ungs tlo-L-'d ■ ["' iiiii calmed down aft .I'wards. _ v , i | ihiw .n - cli >wnsi:ui-3 lo tu o bat, appaiv-iciy uLiite frieii.lly. Siike served t k-ui with four fi g.;oi]Es' : of brandy in succession, anil all r«fcireu to t>io bsc.: yard. ostensibly for private parpos-js. What passed is not. at present cie.j.-'y known ; but the iuxt time the men seen. O'Brien and Monaghan were supporting Cassarly between them inio t e }i- >use — ALL MOr.E or. LSS3 XIPoY. Cassarly, stumbling, fell in the doorway between the otter two, and was afterwards assisted by another lodger nps-airs to 'is bod. Tuere was n > blood, It is said, then visible about Uacsar'.y; and. liioiigh he kept complaining—-meaning, as if ill severe pain—iie had sustained no apparent injury ; and, beyond his tipsiness, there seemed litile or nothing t-ie matter with h'ni—some time after being put t'> bed. Lie toLL the people iu tat; b-.tr he was Tory ill. I'tio k,ucllord r.nuhis wife then went up to the room, and f-iund Cassarly lying moaning on the iL> r —much as if Jits •ad fulLu out uf the stretcher. Warm mill: was offered him. lie refused to take it, and, except a few spoonfuls, swallowed none. He was t-.:en lci't. and oil being visited li.ttf-an-ltimi-aftcrwards, the bedroom was fotiou SPOTTED ALL OVEII "WZTH SLOOB. Cai;sai-ly's elotl-eSj .bedch/ohcc, and tho walls being spotted with it, and a deep wmuihl .iboufc two inches longscen to have been on Iks head itciir the ei'own. lie also conipL'iiiiod of several intermu pains, and appeared very ill. Dr. IL.iu ;i was tixcn. Liitnfc for, and lie, avi'iving soon afccrwards, found C'as.iarly's bladder to be injured, and at once ordered his removal to the Hospital. This was accordingly done, whore Dr. Yorat-'i, after examination, pr'>noimeecl THfi CASE HOPELBS3. Dr. Cetierill, chilled in, also was of' the same opi-'ici; anil the suiferer was then attended by the Rev. Father I'iggins. who continued witli him till the eUii, administering the k'.st rites of thelt'>maii C;itholic C.lurch. Aboiife 0 o'clock, in t ie prepuce of the gentlemen named and patters m the ward, Cassarly fully understanding that he had not long to live, made a declaration that MOInAGETAN KTT.TiKD HIM by kicking him. Two hours later, the .Resident -Magistrate, Mr. M'Gullo Ji, a.tencL cl, and took down hi 3 l;.st deposition. Within an hour.afterwards, he expired. who was a strong, healthy, kjtardjr jgaii, was a colonist of many years' He was comparatively a stranger f -- - ' ; - -

[ to this part of the Colony, but was well \ known about Tokomairiro, where lie was ! resident previews to coming liere. An inquest will be hold to-m<'lTow. i On Tuesday John Monagliaii was placed, in the dock, charged witii t;se wilful n 2^ r ~ der of Ti.onias Cassarly. Insp: ctov Fox asked a remand till an inquess had been held. Mr. Fox was prepared to prove, by the dying statement of the deceased, that : accused killed him kicking him in the region of the stomach. At present, a remand of eight days was requested. Accused was accordingly remanded.