reposted with permission: --- Original Message --- From: "Carol Granville" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> CO. LONGFORD DOUBLE MURDER IN LONGFORD--APRIL 21--On yesterday a man named CORRIGAN and his wife, residing midway between Drumlish and Ballinamuck, in this county, were shot by an assassin who has not been yet rendered amenable to justice. The cold blooded murder is presumed to have originated in that which has been the cause of so many outrages in the same locality--land. CORRIGAN was married to a daughter of a man named MANNING, the bailiff of the Ballinamuck estate, which is the property of the Hon. King HARMAN. A short time since MANNING procured some land from which a tenant had been evicted. CORRIGAN was shot within a few yards of his own door, at about eight o'clock in the morning. The assassin then stepped forward to the house, and deliberately shot the wife. The poor woman is not dead, but there is no hope of her recovery. Her depositions have been taken by Henry CRAWFORD, Esq., R.M. The Constabulary have arrested several persons. Mrs. CORRIGAN has named the man who shot her. CORRIGAN was a respectable man. His body was found in the garden before his house--"Mail." [A man named ROSS was arrested on Tuesday and identified by Mrs. CORRIGAN, who expired on Wednesday.] ------------------------------------------ County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project