AN INDICTMENT OF THE ORANGEMEN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 46, 14 March 1884, Page 21

AN INDICTMENT OF THE ORANGEM EN .

The following memorial of Catherine Maguire, the mother of Philip Maguire, who was murdered at Kilcreery, ia the county Cavaa oa the 16th December last, has been forwarded to the Lord Lieutenant :—: — To his Excellency John Poyntz Earl Spencer, Lord LieutentantGeneral and General Governor of Ireland. The humble application of Catherine Magnire for compensation and an inquiry under the nineteenth section of the Prevention of Crime (Ireland) Act, 1882, to investigate her claim to the same sheweth unto your Excellency : — 1. That on Saturday, the Kith December, 1883, at Kilcreery, in the county of Cavan, Philip Maguire, the son of your applicant, was murdered. The deceased was a farmer, holding about twelve acres of land at Drumgill, in the county of Cavan. He was unmarried, and resided on the farm with your applicant, who is upwards of eighty-five years of age, and was her sole support. On the night of his murder he was on his way home, accompanied by his cousin Thomas Miguire, from Dunmurry, where he had beeu making arraugements for his marriage, which was shortly to have taken place. Your appluunt refer* to an attested copy of the information of Thomas Maguire, sworn on the 24th of December, 1883, stating the facts of said murder aad the circumstances accompanying it. On thia information James Johnstou, George Evans, John Robinson, Robert Johnston, and Joseph Holmes have been returned for trial for said murder, aud your applicant also craves reference to her information sworn the 27th day of Decmber, 1883 mat., which accompanies this application. 2. The murder of the said Philip Maguire arose out of an unlawful association known as the Orange society, and of which society all the murdererß are members. The said society has of late been specially directed against the lives and parsons of Roman Catholics and other Irish subjects of her Majesty the Queen holding liberal or national opinions ; and the description of one of the murderars of himself aud bis confederates as " Rosslea boys " has reference to an armed dimonsi ration of said Orange society, headed by Lor.l llossmore at Kosslea. in the county oE Fermanagh, and assembled for tha purpose of attack on a lawful meeting of the Queen's subjects held at said place for the purpose of inducing her Majesty in Parliament to amend the law relating to the representation of the people in Parliament. Your applicant further craves to refer your Excellency to incendiary placards, speeches, and'letters which have recently been published, spoken, and written, and in which and by which persons representing themselves as Grand Masters and Masters of said society have endeavoured to stir up religious hatred between the Queen's subjects, and more especially a circular which recently appeared in a public newspaper calling for contributions from members of said society, for the procurement of arms and the training of members there of a* a militia, without the authority of your Excellency, and contrary t > the statute law of Ireland ; the object of the said training betn" t > put the said society in a position to override the law and to attack and murder the Queen's Roman Catholic subjects. 3. The persons who murdered your applicant's son were all known members of said Orange society, aid without any reason or pretence, save the fact that the murdered man was a Roman Catholic voter for the county of Cavan and held Liberal opinions, the* said persons banded themselves together for his murder, which they carried out in the brutal and determined manner detailed in the information of Thomas Maguire, acted oa and btimulated to the murder by the tenants of their association and the recently iuflamaiatory harangues of the chiefs of it. You applicant is advanced in year?, and in delicate health, and taerefore humbly prays your Excellency will order a speedy inquiry into this application and award such compensation in respect of said murder as to your Excellency may seem meet. And your applicant TVill ever pray. _, , _ (Signed) Catherine Maguibk. By James B. Ross, her solicitor, 47 Lower Gardiner-street, Dublin, and Monaghan,