COLLINS STREET MYSTERY.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 919, 27 January 1872, Page 2

COLLINS STREET MYSTERY.

VEEDICT of WILFUL MUR

A verdict of wilful murder again! some person or persons unknown, ml the result on December 28, of the ial quiry into the death of Mrs Galloglyl the wife of the proprietor of the Civil Service Hotel. The mystery whicl surrounds this case seems to be deepS ened, however, rather than rem dered clearer by the additional evident! furnished at the adjourned inquest! Instead of the police having succeeded in narrowing the circle of suspicion they have widened it to indefinite extent. The hypotheses of the police seemed'to be two in number—that the diseased had fallen down stairs in a fit of epilepsy, sustained the wound which caused deajh, and thes walked hack again to bed ; second, thai that she fell occidentally while going down stairs after locking her door with the key, and the candle in hei hand, and every question they put at the inquest was calculated for sup. porting either of these. The first was summarily set aside by the first proposition of Professor Halford. Had she fallen in epilepsy, there she would have lain until found, The second is disposed of in an equally effectual man. ner by the evidence of the housemaid, who found the candle on the table on the landing, and the key on the stain near the bottom. Nor do any of the medical men attempt in any way to account for the innumerable bruises on the body in accordance with a sup position that she had fallen down stairs. Professor Halford says that they could have been inflicted by dragging her up stairs before death. But there is no evidence that she was dragged up stairs, and if she was she could only have been so dragged by some one interested in hiding the fact There is a new element imparted also into the case by the declaration of Mc Gallogly, that the deceased must have had a much larger sum in her possession than that which her son admit* ted he removed. This would indicate to robbery and murder, and the silence of the dog would almost point to the crime not having been perpetrated by a stranger. The statement also of Mrs Huckle that she was informed by Mrs Clancy that she found deceased on the floor in a blanket and a sheet still further complicates matters, and the statement of Mr Graham that the young man who felt there was some* thing happening to his mother, told him he had looked out, and the young man denying the statement, i 3 another contradiction.