TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. IN IRELAND.
The Dublin, correspondent of the Press Association Bays' tbe following tragedy is rumored to have been enacted between Monasteravan and Kildare.. A man and his daughter left their house to sell some corn, the house "being entrusted to; two servant men. The corn was sold in the neighboring town for £14. The man then got drunk, and on his being taken to the station-house his daughter accompanied him. She had the money with her, and after some hours said she wanted to go home, and asked some of the constables to accompany her. This they did to within , two miles of her house, where, at her request, they left her. They' had gone a' little way when they heard loud screams. Hurrying in the direction from which the screams came, they found the woman with her head severed from her body. Two men were seen running away. The constables called on them to stand, and as they did not' do bo the police fired on the retreating men, shooting one of -them, deaoL They- then. gavachaae to. the other and caught him, when it was found that the murderers we're thb-twbimenr who < had been left in charge of the house when the father and daughter went away to sell the com, and the £14 proceeds of the sale WM found oa the murderers' peraona, ,
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Evening Post, Volume XIX, Issue 14, 17 January 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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228TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. IN IRELAND. Evening Post, Volume XIX, Issue 14, 17 January 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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