BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 17, 1850 HORRIBLE MURDER OF AN INFANT - Thos. Denny, 32, was tried at Kingstown on Tuesday, for having murdered an infant by sticking an awl into its neck. The prisoner had been a shoemaker but was at the time of the occurrence a farm labourer. He had a son by a deceased wife. He cohabited with a young woman named Ferrant, with whom and his son he lived in a loft. On the 16th of August last the girl Farrant was delivered of a child. The prisoner took it from her and stuck an awl into its throat, which caused its death shortly afterwards. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. There are only four persons receiving outdoor relief in Sligo union. PAUPER INSUBORDINATION - On Monday morning the female paupers at our workhouse broke out into open rebellion against the authority of the officers, and refused to eat the stirabout supplied for breakfast, alleging that it was too thin for human food. The assistance of the police was called in, and the constables acting under the personal direction of the Mayor quelled the riot, which, however, did not proceed at any time beyond shouts and threats. Six women were arrested, and committed as examples to the others, to city jail for three days, with hard labour. The make portion of the inmates took their breakfast without evincing any sympathy in the insurrectionary spirit of the women, but one of the men was expelled by the board in consequence of its having been discovered that he had joined in the conspiracy, and had issued orders to contractors not to supply the milk which was required to be used with the stirabout in the house.-- Kilkenny Moderator. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE - A MAN SHOT BY A CARETAKER. - On Monday morning an unfortunate man, named Hendricksen, met his death at Sandford's Court, near this city, under the following circumstances, as nearly as can be ascertained at present:- It appears that a man named Phelan was placed by Mr. J. Cahill, of Sandford's Court, to watch his farm by night, in consequence of some thefts which had recently taken place upon it. Hendricksen 9who was a person in most miserable circumstances endeavouring to obtain outdoor relief, but disqualified in consequence of having a few acres of land) came to one of the fields and was pulling turnips which were there growing; on the approach of Phelan he ran away, and the latter pursued him with his gun in his hand. Whether the weapon was accidentally or intentionally discharged is uncertain, but be this as it may, Hendricksen was shot dead on the spot. Phelan absconded immediately. The unfortunate deceased has left a wife and seven young children.--Kilkenny Moderator. EXECUTION AT TULLAMORE - Tuesday being the day named for the execution of John Ryan, who was found guilty at the last assizes for the murder of Serjeant Grant, a large concourse assembled in front of the jail to witness the awful spectacle. At five minutes past twelve the unfortunate culprit tripped up the ladder with a light step, accompanied by the Revs. Messrs. Cullery and Flood, Roman Catholic curates, and were it not for the appearance of the jail and its officials, the demeanour of the unfortunate man would not impress the spectators that it was an execution - for never did a man walk up that fatal ladder with more apparent less concern. He turned his back to the people just as he stepped on the drop, while the executioner was adjusting the rope and putting his cap over his face. He never spoke - and in a few minutes he was let off and died in great pain and agony, struggling for a long time. At the usual time he was cut down and buried within the precincts of the jail. His brother was under the drop witnessing the scene.--King's County Chronicle. Sub-Constable Thomas Crane, charged at Mountrath with forging additional figures and letters in orders for cash given by the Clerk of the Peace to crown witnesses, for their expenses in prosecuting larceny cases, is committed to Maryborough jail. MOST EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE. - That fact is stronger than fiction, is fully verified in the following true case of Irish ingenuity, in which the ferocious and the absurd are curiously blended. At the present sessions now holding in Mallow an unhappy wretch was indicted for stealing turnips from the field of Mr. Leader of Millstreet, in this county, the principal witness being the watchman, known familiarly as "Mad Tom Eagar." The attorney who defended the prisoner as "the length of himself," but upon being further pressed he coolly said - "Didn't I know what the attorney would be at, and what he'd try to make me swear! Faith I did so, and when I caught the prisoner I knocked him down and took out my knife and cut off a piece of his ear, that I might match it, next day." This terrific statement was mournfully corroborated by the prisoner in the dock, who turned his mutilated ear to the bench, crying out at the same time in a piteous tone - "Oh! wisha, me lord, sure enuf he did crap me!" The worthy assistant-barrister, who was justly horrified at the act, vented his indignation in the strongest terms, and expressed a wish that he had the witness in the dock, but the witness seemed to look upon this startling mode of procuring conclusive testimony as entitling him to a civic crown instead of meriting a judicial reprimand.-- Cork Examiner. Mr. St. George, M.P. applied by letter to the Galway Guardians for permission to pay his rates, which were very large in amount, by instalments of £50. The chairman said the board had no right to interfere with their collector, and Mr. St. George ought to be written to by the clerk to say that they could not interfere but that if he and the collector arranged it, they had no objections. Extract of a recent letter from a settler near Adelaide, South Australia - "Boys are greatly wanted here. We pay a little fellow to mind cattle and bring them to milk morning and evening, 2s. per week and feed him; he is a mere child, and does not look more than six years old. We also pay 8s. per week to a stout boy. If some gentlemen would interest themselves in sending them out, hundreds would get employment. The writer of this had hired as servants some young girls sent out from the Skibbereen workhouse. Serjeant Major Goerge Kirkman, 88th Depot, who marched through this garrison, en route from Kinsale to Castlebar, committed suicide at Tulla in his billet on Saturday morning last, after the detachment halted there, by cutting his throat from ear to ear. The cause of this desperate act is unknown to the officers and men unless that he apprehended censure for symptoms of inebriety. An inquest was held on Sunday, verdict - "Temporary insanity." The deceased was a native of Bolton, Lancashire.-- Limerick Chronicle. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/