Terrible Affray in Ireland.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XV, Issue 3437, 15 November 1894, Page 2

Terrible Affray in Ireland.

fourteen Men Arrested m m Murder Can,

A terrible outrage was perpetrated the other Sunday night at Ballinderry, near the town of Borrisokane, County Tip* perary. It appears that on Sunday afternoon fourteen men from the County Gal way crossed the river Shannon to the Tipperary side, and near Ballinderry they met a man O'Callaghan on the road. One of the excursionists went to speak to him, whereupon one of the party named Kelly re narked that he was an emergency man, and should not be spoken to. O'Callaghan was near his own house at the time, and a scuffle ensued between him, his wife, and his daughter on the one side, and some of the excursionists on the other. O'Calla^han took a gun and shot Kelly, and before he could be prevented he discharged the second barrel, wounding two or three others. One of the party seized a crowbar, and delivered a fatal blow on O'Callaghan's head. An inquest was held on Monday afternooa, and evidence embodying the foregoing facts was given, but the inquiry was adjourned pending a post mortem examination. Fourteen men have been arrested, and O'Callaghan's wife and daughter declared that they would be able to identify the man who used the crowbar. Grreat excitement has been caused m the district by the dreadful occurrence, and that feeling has been intensified by the fftqt that a settlement was expected to be Bnojrfcly brpug|yt about u,pon the. estate oh tftacji Cj'CaUaghan w^s care? tak 3 r. Ifc ftpp^al'S thaV Mr Clark*, qf Macdeefield, the landlord, died recently, and there was a prospect that his successors would bring th,e difficulties existing to a conplusjon by the reinstatement of the evicted tenants. O'o»|laghan was fifty yeari? of age, aod Jfelly, the, man whom he shot, fcviren{;y-§eveja. Thft wife and daughters of O'Collaghan subsequently identified tymry Bowles, one oi the prisoner**, ag pU man who killed he? husband with a crowbar. All tee.ipnacmej* have been remandad. At the inquest on O'Cillaghan the jury returned the follow- • \t;-!.((II»t the deceased died SoVf^ctureoftheo-^aß'icWPWa of the brain, the result of> stroke given by a person unknown"