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    1. Ireland 26th April 1864 From the Times
    2. Mary Heaphy
    3. Ireland 26th April 1864 Dublin April 24th. Two murderous outrages are reported in the Clonmel Chronicle. John Carey a tenant on Lord Derby's estate in Tipperary, died on Thursday last from the effects of a brutal assault which took place on the 7th inst, the weapon used by the assassin being a pitchfork. The deceased was 65 years of age. A man named Egan has been committed to prison charged with the offence. Near a place called Annacarty in the same County, 14 men, with their faces blackened, entered the house of a farmer named Thomas Quirke at midnight, and beat him and his wife almost to death. Notice was promptly given to the police by a little boy, who escaped through the roof of the house, but none of the party have been apprehended. Mary

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