BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, March 27, 1850 DREADFUL OCCURRENCE IN THE COUNTY OF ARMAGH - The peaceful town and neighbourhood of Portadown have been horrified to an unprecedented extent, by an act of deliberate assassination, committed in the vicinity on the night of Tuesday, the 19th, when Mr. John G. Woolsey, of Clounagh, about three quarters of a mile from the town was shot in his room while preparing to go to bed. From the evidence taken before the magistrates and coroner, the facts appear to be these - Mr. Woolsey, who had quitted the house after tea returned about half-past nine, and, after stopping a short time in the kitchen, took his candle and proceeded up stairs to his chamber. He had not long been there - not more than ten minutes - when the maid servant, who had remained below, heard a shot, succeeded by the falling of some heavy body in the room above; on entering the room she found Mr. Woolsey extended on the floor, near the window, bleeding but still showing signs of life. An alarm was instantly made and the best medical aid procured from Portadown, with as little delay as possible, but to no purpose, the unfortunate gentleman having expired in a short time thereafter. On examination, it appeared that a bullet fired from without, after perforating the glass of the window, had passed through his head, and was found lodged among some clothes in a wardrobe. The police were immediately on the alert. Mr. Atkinson, the coroner, held an inquest on the body on Wednesday, but as yet, there is no clue to the perpetrator of so foul a deed. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/