THE MAAMTRASNA MURDERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1929, 15 November 1884, Page 4

THE MAAMTRASNA MURDERS.

Ay extraordinary story is published in the Freeman's Journal rogudmg the murder of a fumly at Miamtiasna, wiitU'ii by a coi respondent who ii.vs paid a,\isit m Conncni.ua. to the infoimers Casey and Pluibiu, whoso leceut statement thai they falsely ssvoie .isvay the life of an innocent nun, Myles Joyce, caused so mii"h sensation. Casey, m re ply to questions, staled these svero seven nnirdeiers an 1 not ten, as stated at Hutu il. These weie himself and Michael Casey, now undci going penal seisitudo. Pat Cisey and Pat Joyce, who weiv hanged, and tlnee others whose names the correspondene declines to publish, though he mentions that two of them (father and son) ate &Ull living in the district of the murders, and the otliei ])as gone to England. Casey states that one of these — the father, was the author of the massaeie thit he h°ld the lamp while the family were murdered, and that the murderers having left the cottage without killing the old grandmother, this man compelled them to retvrn and slay her also, which they did. This man it was who used the expression that " nought as big as the button ou a great coat should be left alive in the house." Casey told the correspondent that the two meetings at which the murder was planned were held at the house of tins man, and that he (Casey) was present at both oi them. Casey assured his listener that Miles J. Joyce, the man who was hanged, Philbin, the second informer, and Tom Joyce, Martin Joyce, Pat Joyce, and John Casey, all undergoing penal servitude, wore not at the scene of the m.irlor at all. Asked who and sshete were Kelly and Nee, the persons supposed to have escaped, Casey said there wcie no such peisons, that these were false mines for the father and son already mentioned, and that it was agieed to call thorn the-,c names, hst by calling them by their ov\n theii identity should be betrayed to the victims. The correspondent here explains that the author of tiie inassacie mentioned is a, wealthy farmer in the neighboin hood, and tint it is well known all aiound him th.it Ms name is hi in tad übioad. Casey, on being asked Mbit enmity the peuosis he nam.'d hid a^amst* the nnirdoiod family, icplied flut Joyce, the muideied man, was alleged by the author of the murder to ha\e attempted his life tlnee times, and that he was delei mined to kill him and to leave no one behind him to tell the tale. Kor the minder, he explains, the people selected weicall iclations bv blood 01 connections by tnamage, and this for the sake of safety. Thomas Casey next siid that the son of the author of the murder came to him ,si\ weeks bcfoieany of the meetings sseio held at all and gave him C 3 "I suspected," siid Casey, " tint there was bad work to be done, but I wanted the money, and I took lfc, hoping to avoid the bid woi k aftei vv.uds.' 1 The infoimor went on to state in cfloct tli.it at a recent fair tills son enne to him and h.m led him £<t, saying he should have it because of all the tiouble and sonow that had been occasioned him The author of the murder, Casey huther declncs, held a revoh'tr as well as the lamp, and the man \\ ho lb fiei <-c in England h id a d lirgoi Jt was, howevei, a hammer found in the house by I'at Joyce that did the most of the job (.' i--ey piOv-eedcd to state it was impossible for the Joj'ws, who bj ought the maidei home to the men hanged, to hase tiacked the assi>sinj, in the mannei they deacnbed at the tual, as the m™ht ssas bught, and theie ssas little eosal for them. The inlonner Philbii), he deelaml, was allowed to com oi pc with the witness Joyce at Kilmaiiiham gaol, and they had tiuvj to make their tales coincide. Casey fui fcher asserted that Mi liwlton, the Crown Solicitor, "aid he wo'ihl gne C.')!) 0 foi his lnfounation, and even up to C">00, and puimiaaion to lease the co.mtry ''I did intend," added j Casey, " to lease Mic countiy last spiing, but I would not have gone without giving toniy pnost a full statement of the t'nth." lie said he d<<! not c.iio v, hat became of him if he obtained foigiseness fiorn »Jod, and made all the atonement in his power. The eone<-pon-dent saj'.s he letfc Casey with a \i\id mi l>ression that ho was telling the ti nth. Casey declaud that he would tell e\et}'thmg abo\e it lated on oath at a public investigation The infoi met Plulbin was also visited. Philbin while in Cases "s piesencc, doc not hesitate to confiun what he says, though leticent to fiesh intei s iew ers. The i'\eeman's Jnumal ,if_'ain pi esses for a public ins estimation. Attci, it obsoi yes, th-j detailed md cncumstancial stateiii"iits of Cisij theie bceuis to bo no c.jut^e left to tlie Go\ eminent but a full, open, and scat clung pnqniiy It is al't'gc.l, indeed, that the olhuals .no aheady v.'tll awaic uf tlic tiuth of Ca sej -i levelatinns

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