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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [News] !! Connaught Journal; Jan 16, 1823
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 08:40:05 -0500


Connaught Journal
Galway, Ireland
Thursday, January 16, 1823
Volume 69 Price 5 Pence

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE

WATERFORD
About six o'clock on Monday evening six well armed fellows robbed the house
of a farmer named WALL, at Mount Bolton, in the County Waterford on the
banks of the Suir, about three miles at this side of Carrick, of twenty-five
guineas-the house of a poor woman at the gate of Mount Bo**on, of
twenty-five, tenpennies and a roll of tobacco-and a neighbouring house
(where no money was found) of some clothes. On Sunday last, a man named John
HARTRY; upwards of seventy years old, was murdered in teh parish of Ardmore,
County Waterford, by a neighbour of his named CROWLEY, within tow or three
fields of his own residence-Jealousy is the motive assigned for the horrible
act. A snug slated house and offices, belonging to a respectable farmer,
named John KELLY, of Ballyquin, in the parish of Ardmore, was burnt a few
nights back. --Waterford Chronicle.

We are happy to learn that three persons suspected to be part of the
banditti which attacked the Belfast Mail on Friday night, have been
apprehended, with whom arats, ammunition, and property were found, which
cannot be satisfactorily accounted for by them. The ball which lodged in his
shoulder, was to have been extracted this day from BURNS, the guard, who
still continues dangerously ill. Mr. FORSTER, as stated in the Newry Paper,
as one of the passengers, was not in the coach; it should have been Mr.
WHITTINGTON.
It is a curious circumstance that some bank-notes, which had remained unseen
by the robber, were lost by a porter in carrying then through the streets of
Belfast. The packet which contained them was addressed to Mr. Hans Wm.
PEEBLES, Derry Mail Coach Office, Belfast.

A young boy named Edward SMITH, was murdered near Silverbridge, in the
county of Armagh, by a blind man named Oswald WALSH,whom he used to guide
through the country.

Lieutenant Thomas COWEN, late Adjuntant of the 79th, and Superintendant of
Police at Clara, in the King's County, shot himself on Wednesday, the 8th
instant.

>From the 5th ultimo to the 5th instant, Messrs GLYNN and THOMAS, Officers of
Excise, accompanied by Lieutenant GRAVES and the detachment of the 3d
Revenue Corps under his command, stationed in Gort, seized three stills,
four heads, and four worms, twenty barrels of malt, two gallons of spirits,
and destroyed four illicit distilleries, containing a large quantity of
pot-ale, with twenty-seven gallons of singlings, and arrested two men
concerned in making illicit malt.

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