NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2395, 19 November 1880, Page 4

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

THE MURDER OF LORD MOUNTMORRES. Lord Mountmorres Ims been murdered at a place called Rusheen, within a mile of Clonbur, where was his residence in Galway. He had attended a meeting of the magistrates on Sept. 25, at (he Court House, Clonbur, at which a resolution had been passed calling upon the Government to take coercive measures, and left the town in the evening. Half-an-hour afterwards his horse and carriage arrived at Ebor Hill, a mile distant, without him. Search was made and he was found lying at the side of the road in a pool of blood and lifeless. He had received one rifle bullet in the head, which penetrated his skull, three in the neck, and two in the body. Lord Mountmorres had most unhappy relations with his tenants, and had recently obtained ejectment decrees against two of them. As a magistrate he was also unpopular, and until recently lie was guarded by an escort of police. A lantern was found near where the body was lying, and a bottle of whisky in the well of his carriage. The inquest on the remains of murdered nobleman was held on Sept. 27 at Ebor H all, the residence of the deceased, situated on the banks of Lough Corib. The jury having viewed the body, the face of the deceased being all mangled with the wounds that he had received, the following evidence was taken : —Sub-Inspector Law said ho saw Lord Mountmorres on the evening of Sept. 2.5. He spoke to him for a quarter of an hour, and shortly afterwards saw him speaking to HeadConstable O’Callaghan. His Lordship was then quite well. Did not see him afterwards till he saw his murdered body. Head-Constable O’Callaghan deposed that about half-past nine that night a messenger came to the barracks to say that Lord Mountmorres's horse and car had come to Ebor Hall without him. Witness sent a patrol along the road in the direction his lordship had taken. The next thing he heard was (hat his lordships body was found on the road in a dangerous way. A medical man was sent /or, and the body was removed to the house of a man named Hugh Flanagan, but he refused to have it, and it was then taken on to Ebor Hall. His lordship had a loaded pistol in his pocket, but it was not discharged. Hugh Flanagan was next examined, and said he was afraid of having the body in for fear that something belonging to him might not be übvc that that day twelve mouths. The medical man who had first called said he examined the body and found a bullet wound m the forehead, two in the neck, two in the abdomen, and one on the right thumb. The jury, after being some time in deliberation, found a verdict of “ Wilful murder against someone unknown.” Lady Mountmorres was on a visit to 1 Edinburgh when her husband was murdered, and, on receiving the melancholy news, she returned home immediately. The Rev. John Hamilton, of Annadown Glebe, County Galway, in a letter to the “ Daily Express ” says:—“ The crime alleged against Lord Mountmorres was that he regarded the loss of some lambs of his which perished in the ocean as a malicious injury, and exacted compensation for his loss from the neighborhood, his neighbors all along alleging, and perhaps truly, that the loss was was caused by accident. I knew this young man most intimately when he lived in his father’s house, and a more amiable or benevolent youth I never met with. He won golden opinions from all ranks and classes by his devotion to the well-being of the peasantry resident in his parish. Having evinced a decided taste for the practice of medicine, his mother, a wealthy lady indulged his taste by purchasing for him medical books and laying in for him a stock of medicine;,with which he opened a dispensary for the poor around him. He attended without fee or reward all simple cases, and treated them most successfully. He devoted his whole spare time to these benevolent efforts, and was idolised by the recipients of his bounty. In an evil hour he purchased a small property in the wild region of Connemara and established his residence there. He has now for a very small injury, real or imaginary, fallen a victim to the violence of ruthless and pitiless savages, but his blood cries from the ground for vengeance.”