SOURCE: Armagh Guardian: News - HILL, ORMSBY, SMITH - Incendiarism - Issue dated 1 April 1845 ========================================== The following newspaper article was transcribed from The Armagh Guardian (microfilm), by permission of The British Library. ========================================== INCENDIARISM.‹MAGUIRESBRIDGE, MARCH 20.‹On Saturday night last, or early on Sunday morning, a large turf stack at Ardunchin house, the residence of Rev. SYDNEY SMITH, D.D., rector of the parish of Aughalurcher, county Fermanagh, was discovered to be on fire, by a man who had been attending a sick cow. Fearing to go himself to the place where he discovered the fire, he went for a person who is in the employ of Dr. SMITH, and they gave the alarm to the inmates of the dwelling-house, when a messenger was despatched to Brookboro¹ to procure assistance. The constabulary, under Captain ORMSBY, together with Lieutenant JOHN HILL and his party proceeded to the conflagration, and by the aid of numbers of the surrounding peasantry the dwelling-house and offices were saved from being consumed. A man who was lately discharged from the employ of Dr. SMITH is strongly accused of being guilty of the offence. The supposed incendiary was seen with his father at the turf-stack, on the night in question, and has since been taken into custody, and committed for trial by the Brookboro¹ bench of Magistrates. --From a Correspondent. ========================================== 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 ==========================================