CALLOUS MURDER
A CHRISTMAS SENSATION 10 PERSONS ON TRIAL LONDON, Feb. 7. Laurence Griflin, a Free {State postman,' disappeared at Btradbally, County Galway, on Christmas night. A police search for the body in a neighboring mine shaft was unsuccessful. A sensational allegation that Griffin. was sewn up in a blanket while still alive and thrown over a bridge Or down a mine shaft was made by State Prosecutor Finlay in the Waterford Police Court when 10 inhabitants of Stradballv, including Thomas Cashin, a school teacher; Edmund ' Morrisey, laborer; Patrick Whelan, hotelkeeper, his wife, son ami daughter; and two civic guards were charged with murdering Griflin and conspiring to dispose of the body. The prosecutor asserted that the missing man was knocked down by • Cashin during a quarrel in the hotel, and his head hit a stove, after which he neither moved nor spoke. The injured man, while still living, was sewn in a blanket brought by Mrs. Whelan, placed in Cashin’s cur and disposed of. There were a number of persons present, but no one thought of sending for a doctor. The thought uppermost in all minds was that they must get rid of Griffin. Accused pleaded not guilty and were remanded. _________
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 5
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