THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, September 6, 1824 SHOCKING MURDER A murder of almost unparalleled atrocity was committed last week in the County Tyrone. So cold-blooded and fiend-like an act it seldom falls to the lot of a journalist to detail, at least in our tranquil and civilised province. On the morning of Wednesday, the 18th inst., the body of Mr. James Mathewson, of Kilmore, was found dead in a waste house belonging to Mr. M'Bride, Innkeeper, in Drumquin, where it is supposed to have been conveyed by the wretches to whose ruthless cupidity the deceased was a victim. Capt. Boyle, a Magistrate, had an inquest held upon it, three surgeons being present, who opened it, and deposed that deceased's death was caused by strangulation and other violence, marks of which were evident on his breast and back. Mr. Mathewson was collecting rents for ___ Ecklin, Esq., whose tenants had been noticed to meet him at Drumquin, only two miles from his own residence. It appeared on evidence that several of them had paid him on the Monday and Tuesday preceding, and that the entire money he had received was seen in his possession on the evening of the latter day; but when the body was found the money was all gone, proof that he had been robbed, and that the robbery was the incentive to the deed. A large reward has been offered for the discovery of the murderers, and as the Magistrates of the neighbourhood are all on the alert we do not think it will be possible for them to elude the fate which they merit. The deceased was a most respectable man, upright, industrious, and inoffensive, and he has left a wife and five children to deplore his melancholy end.--[Derry Journal. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/