PRIESTS MISSING SISTER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 17

PRIESTS MISSING SISTER.

FOUND WITH HEAD 'SEVERED FROM BODY. A dramatic story was told to the coroner for East Tyrone at an inquest on Monday, December 1, on the oody of Miss Mary Dunne (30), a spinster, sister of the Rev. Joseph Dunne, parish priest of Loughgall, County Armagh, who disappeared on September 27 last, and whose remains, thanks to an anonymous communication to the constabulary, were found in a field on Drumuad Farm, near Lough Neagh, where she had resided for some years with a caretaker aud his wife named McDonald. The police evidence showed that when they found the body the head was separated from the trunk, and was lying threp feet away. The lower jaw was missing, apparently gnawed away by rats. Mrs. McDonald's story was that on the day the lady disappeared a man named Alexander Anderson, formerly a labourer on the farm, who had been forbidden to visit the honse, called. Soon after Anderson left, the deceased went out without saying where she was going, and witness never saw her alive afterwards. Anderson, the witness added, had not been seen in the district since the middle of October. Other witnesses deposed to having seen Anderson and the deceased on the County Road, within a short distance of each other, on the night she disappeared, and a Mr. McVoy swore that when he went up to Anderson the latter tried to conceal himself and disguise his voice. The inquest was adjounicd. Detective Duckworth, of Barrow, acting on instructions from the Royal Irrsh Constabulary on December 2, arrested at Barrow Alexander Anderson (27) on a onarsc <sr murder.