SOURCE: Armagh Guardian: News - COLLINS, HUMPHRIES, LEONARD, SMYTH, TUGMAN - Murders; Molly Maguires - Issue dated 11 Feb 1845 ========================================== The following newspaper article was transcribed from The Armagh Guardian (microfilm), by permission of The British Library. ========================================== (From our Enniskillen Correspondent.) DREADFUL MURDER.‹It is with very painful feelings that I inform you of a most shocking murder perpetrated at Lisnagole, near Brookeborough, in Fermanagh, on Thursday last, by an old man named SMYTH, aged upwards of 80 years. The vic- time of his savage revenge was his wife, an old woman also, whom he chapped on the neck with a hatchet until life was ex- tinct. An inquest was held by HUGH COLLINS, Esq., when the unfortunate man was fully indicted, and committed to gaol to abide his trial at the next assizes. ATTEMPT TO MURDER.‹On Friday last, at Callowhill, in Fermanagh, a dispute arose between two men of the names of HUMPHRIES and TUGMAN, about a run-a-way match, when the former struck his opponent with a pitchfork, wounding him dreadfully in the face. There are but slight hopes of his reco- very entertained. HUMPHRIES has fled, but the police are using every effort to detect him. THE MOLLY MAGUIRES AGAIN.‹³Molly¹s men² visited the neighbourhood of Callowhill on Monday night last, and en- tered the house of a man named LEONARD, and took therefrom a gun, pistol, and bayonet. They told him that they would not permit him to reside in the house he was at present living longer than the 1st of April. ========================================== This reprint is intended SOLELY for the non-commercial use of family historians, with the sincere hope that a Lister may find the content useful. I am not descended from the person(s) mentioned herein. **Please refer any questions arising from this article to the general readership of the FERMANAGH mailing list.** Search for your favourite surnames, places, and/or subjects of genealogical interest at the Ireland Newspaper Abstracts web site, at this URL: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/index.html