DISCOVERY OF THE MUBDERED BAILIFFS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 30 March 1882, Page 2

DISCOVERY OF THE MUBDERED BAILIFFS.

The discovery of the bodies of the two missing bailiffs of Lord Ardilaun at the bottom of Lough Mask reveals one of the most atrocious crimes (says the " Argus" correspondent) committed in recent timet, even in the most lawless districts of Ireland. The discovery ultimately made is said to have been due to information given by an old woman. She declared on the evening of the day when the bailiffs were missed she saw several men row oat.to : ; the centre ot the lake and drop into the ' • water two loads. Lough Mask is a comparatively small sheet of water lying in a portion of the County Galway, known 'as -fy "Joyce's Country," and some 30 distant from the town of Galway. liiamediately outside the town ia Lake CoWib, which stretches in a north-easterly direction for upwards of twenty miles', and seven miles beyond the northern extremity of Lough Corrib is LoughMSgk. | Acting on tho information suppljflfte, •. services of a steam launch were 7 ;'. and twenty-three blue-jackets bololHT;,.; ; : to Her Majesty's gunboat Banterer,'^fre ;: >'■■'; engaged for twelve days searchiiig the'; portion of the lake indicated, occasionally;' ,;■ exploding dynamite in order to bring, the V'.' bodies so the surface, The lake was : dragued in all directions, and at| lengththeir persevering efforts wore rewarded ,;,•:■ with success. The budies wero found in:-.«!;' sacks, nearly close together, each enclosed :..->•"; in a separate sack, heavily weighted with , huge stones to make Ihem'- sink. The spot where they were discovered'; ( is not far from tho shore, and only a short';':;;: distance from the house of the man Kerri- ' gan, now under arrest on suspicion, and! ''■!,: with whom the bailiffs werojseen to gojfor . the purpose of serving writs, Their em* ..,.■' ployer, Lord Ardilaun, is a popular Irishman, known f»r his great wealth and his liberality as a landlord. Tho people against whom he has been at length forced to proceed had refusod to pay rent for years, and disdained all suggestions of compromise. Lord Ardilaun has interested himself untiringly in tho discovery of the fate of his unfortunate servants, It is probable that the men wore killed boforjjfoj ',• they were immersed in the Lough. ballets were found iu the head of the older bailiff, and several in the body of his nephew or grandson. Captain Grant, of the Bauterer, had tho bodies wrapped iu sailcloth, and forwarded by a party of policeman to n temporary police barrack. ;., A short time afterwards the corpses were placed on a jaunting car, and a procession of the constabulary on cars having boon formed, the remains wore car-, .«n ried to Clonbav Courthouso to await an h -i inqneßt,