DISCLOSED NEAR DUBLIN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 79, 3 April 1926, Page 7

DISCLOSED NEAR DUBLIN

BODIES FOUND IN BURNT . MANSION.

.(United Press.Association—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Ann.) • LONDON, 31st March. - A/mysterious murder was revealed by the burning of a countiy mansion known as La Maneha, close to Dublin, owned by Joseph and Peter M'Donnell, who occupied it with their two sisters, a servant, and a gardener. Early in the morning a workman observed the mansion ablaze. " '" , On the arrival of the brigade they found the body of the gardener in a room in the basement with large wounds in the head. Peter M'Donnell was found naked'in a back room with clothes spread over his dead body, and his brother Joseph was found dead in another. A room in the upper part of the mansion, which was ablaze, contained the burned' bodies of the sisters. 1 The servant was unable to tell whether they had been attacked. The outer doors were barred. It appears that the fire started in different rooms oh the ground floor and •spread t<> the upper rooms. The M'Donnells were rpputed to be wealthy. The police believe that one of the brothers lost his reason, and having set the promises afire; attacked the other occupants.