A GALWAY MURDER.
CABLE NEWS.
United Presa AsEOoiation—By Electrio Telegraph Copyright,
_ <?- SHOOTING OF A CONSTABLE. EVIDENCE OF AN EYEWITNESS. Received March 24, 9 a.m. LONDON, March 23. Michael Darmody and Thomas Hynes were rerranded at Galway on a charge of murdering CJnstable M'Goldrick at Craughwell. B. Naughton testified that he heard shots, and saw the constable fall. Darmodj threatened to kill him if he told what he had seen. Witness identified Hynes as acompanying Darmody on the fatal occasion.
The murder was, it is stated, an outcome of the eviction of tenants of a farm on the Earl of Clanricarde's estate at Craughwell, County Galway. While two emergency m«n, under police protection, were engaged in broad daylight rebuildh/g the walls of the farm, they were fired upon from the shelter of an adjoining hedge. Both received gunshot wounds, and when Constable M'Goldrick set out in pursuit of the assailants he was shot dead. Subsequently a blacksmith and two farmers were arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the outrage.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3146, 25 March 1909, Page 5
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169A GALWAY MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3146, 25 March 1909, Page 5
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