A DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 86, 24 May 1879, Page 2

A DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE

A fearful orima, oommitted by a nun named Thomaa M*guir*,a** horrified Sydney. Be liwexi very unhappily with hit wife, and on March let he beat his wife with a hammer. To avoid the blow*, ahe scrambled into the firepla-e, and put her head up to the ibimney. What followed ia thua deaaribed by toe son, a boy it years of age Maguire eeid tc the boy " 111 soon take, bar out oi that; go and fetch me a piece of papa*.'" He replied.

* I ean’t m any about," and walk'd into the front room. Maguire follow*! Lira, and pointing to a piece :f paper on the Boor, said, ‘ Ara you blind f Look there" He banded him the paper, end Maguire took it into ‘.hr hitcher. when the deoaaaad w«s still stao.’ing in the fireplace. Maguire twi»*e:'. up the iie’-o of p-per, I and lighting it L' the oa; die, went to the I fireplace, lifted a:, hi: rife’* drear, and deli uP.-.-iy *?. hr. ■>. it with the lighted P'“«c paper- Th* uuceaaed bad os a drear of light material, and it blazed up aeeooit»• Maguire had put the lighted piece of paper to it. She came out of the chimney, and rushed into the yard, shrieking “ Murder, put me out, put me out” ; Maguire told hie eon to get a backet of water, and be did so, and threw it over the deceased, who wae in a blaze ; be then went to get another bucket, and on coming beck with it found bis father wrapping the deceased in a blanket. The ' deceased said, " Tom, you have done it ! this time. 1 ’ Maguire said, " No, I never; i you dine it yourself ” The deceased re- | peeled several d ues, " You done it." The woman die;; m sbe Sydnay Infirmary, from ihe (.11 sol of the burns. She appears to ha :t been desirous of screening I her av.stand, and her dying deposition vs.i to tbs folio .'ting rjSsst, which was 1 so; :ra(iiotei Ly other evidence and by bar own previous statements" I put 1 toy head up :he jhimney became I thought prisoner was going to hit me There wa; a fire in the fireplace, and my Jothe" oaugne fire and blazed op. I soreo-T.ad ou:, red r.-.n into the yard, end my husband got« hit-Lit tnd put it round me. Ho then put some tsiad oil end flour on tit-i burns A woman ordered me to put some kerosene ou, end I did so. My husband was is a different room when I caught fire at the kitchen fireplace. We quarrelled in the kitchen, end he went away from me. I have not told anyone ‘hat prisoner set fire to me. The burning was an accident I saw the.fire when 1 I got in the fireplace, but I stood on the . hob, thinking I would not get burnt I ran into the yard when I caught tire. At thn inquest the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder