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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 59, 13 June 1874, Page 10

Mr William Barry, of Killmallock, Dr Median, of Holvcross, Dr Sheedy, Killmallock, Thomas Donovan, and Michael Meehan, were | prosecuted at the Bruff p«ttv sessions for an extraordinary series of I frauds upon the New York Insurance Company. It was alleged that ! the lives of several persons living in the district were insured with the company without their knowledge, their signatures to the necpssary i documents being forged nnd fraudulent medical certificates. Barry | wss alleged to be a party to the frauds and the other persons wew charged with preparing >md signin? the fraudulent documents. One i of the persons so insurpd wn« Mr Charles Wiltnot Smvth, J.P., who ' was at the time engaged in disputes with bis tenants and threatened with assassination, and it was alleged that Median, one of the accused, , attended a meeting at Bsillylanders to aecus9 him. The accused were returned for trial at th? a««ize3 on two distinct cases. ' During last year 90 149 emigrants left Ireland, being an increase compared with the year 1872 of 12,047. The total emigration from Ireland since Aluy 1. 18->l. the date at which the collection of returns commenced, is stated at 2 252,744 peivon*. | Prince Arthur has been created Duke of Connaught and Earl of i Susses.