SHOCKING MURDER NEAR CLONAKILTY.
A dreadful murder was committed at Clonakilty on Saturday evening— a mother slain by her son. A young farmer, named M'Carthy, lived with his family in tho neighbourhood of Clonakilty. On Saturday night ho got into an altercation with his sister. It appears that for tho last eighteen months he has been of weak mind. The dispute raised his fury to tho highest pitch, and while, in this state he seized a hatchet to attack his sister. Sho rushed from the house and escaped ; but M'Carthy instantly fell upon his mother, and with a single stroke of tho weapon killed her. In his blind rage he mangled the body with repeated blows, until at length, becoming partially scnsiblo of the atrocity of the deed ho had perpetrated, ho ran raid attempted to drown himself in tho river. Bis neighbours, however, seized and held him till the arrival of of tho police, into whose custody he was delivered. This shockingoccurrence lias created great excitement, and thrown a gloom over the district which will long remain.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 37, 24 October 1868, Page 6
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178SHOCKING MURDER NEAR CLONAKILTY. Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 37, 24 October 1868, Page 6
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