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    1. Nenagh Guardian 16-4-1841
    2. Mary Heaphy
    3. The disturbed districts of the northern part of the county are now nightly patrolled by the 17th lancers, accompanied by a party of the constabulary, whilst the neighbourhood of Puceawn, Toomavara, and the Silver-Mines are occupied by detachments of the 20th regiment. There have been Rockite notices, two attempts to murder, , in one of which a father and son were dragged out of bed, and beat in a most cruel and inhuman manner with sticks and firearms. A coroners inquest has been held on the bodies of two men named Gleeson and Tierney. It appears that the unhappy men had a dispute with three persons named Needham, relative to an encroachment on some grass land, words led to blows, and that finally Gleeson and Tierney were knocked down with stones by the Needhams, and only survived five or six hours afterwards; The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence. The assassins have for the present eluded the hands of justice. The deceased were both comfortable farmers holding from 35-40 acres of land. One of the murderers was a brother in law of Tierney. Government have offered a reward of 100/. for the discovery of the murderers of Hayes, one of the late victims to the conspiracy. Mary

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