DEATH OF IRISH POSTMAN.
SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS AT TRIAL. (United Prefes Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 9, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 7. Laurence Griffin, a Free State postman, disappeared at Stradbally county, Galway, on Christmas night. The police search for the body was unsuccessful in the neighbouring mine shaft. The sensational allegation that Griffin was sewn up in a blanket, while 6till alive, and thrown over a bridge or down a mine shaft, was made by the State Prosecutor (Mr Finlay), In Waterford Police Court, when ten inhabitants of Stradbally, including Thomas Cashin (school teacher), Edmund Morrisey (labourer), Patrick Whelan (hotelkeeper), and his wife,
Bon, daughter, and two civic guards, were charged with murdering Griffin, •nd conspiring to dispose of the body. The prosecution asserted that the missing man was knocked down by Cashin, during a quarrel in the hotel bar, and hit on the head with a stone, 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 car, and disposed of. There were a number of persons present, but no one thought of sending for the 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18489, 10 February 1930, Page 9
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