Tipperary Free Press - Co. Tipperary, Ireland - 1835
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January 8, 1935

8-1-1835
The Tipperary Free Press published in Clonmel
states-"Two murders were committed in the public streets
of Thurles on Saturday last between 3 and 4 O'Clock, by
individuals who are known, and one of them is in custody
fully charged, the other after slaying his victim, went
deliberately through the streets and by the police
barracks, and has not since been heard of. One of the
persons was named Egan, from Toomevara, the other
Cantwell from Whitefield.
A Rival journal the Clonmel Herald, published in the
same town and the same day, gives a totally different
version in every particular, save that two murders had
been comitted in the Streets in Thurles. It says "that
there was only one murderer, who worked in a tobacco
manufactory in Thurles, named Maher, who, after a hot
pursuit by the police, swam a river and escaped: that
the two murdered men were both named Ryan, the first
killed in the street by a blow of a stick loaded with
lead, which instantly deprived him of life, the second
in Pudding-Lane, by the blow of a stone which knocked
him out. That one of the murdered men was from the
Colliery, the other from Wingfield near Templemore,
further that the deed was comitted on Sunday. . These
accounts could scarcely be reconciled if last Saturday
night's Gazette did not furnish a clue by the offer of
100s. reward for the apprehension of Michael Maher , who
on the 27th attacked John Egan, (not on the street, but)
on the road from Thurles to Toomevara, beat him, and
broke his skull, of which he has since died. The Gazette
does not even take notice of the second murder.
The last mentioned journal states, that on Monday
morning last , at so public an hour as 9 O'Clock, 13
men, well armed with long guns, proceeded through the
County, to Milltown, to a farm belonging to Mr. Doherty,
where they left a threatening notice and inflicted
personal abuse on the caretaker named Devane, ordering
him to give up his situation and holding. As they were
seen going in the direction of Mr. Murphys, of Woodford,
about 60 of his tenantry collected, and supposing that
the armed men were going to attack the owner, offered
their assistance to repel them, and if Mr. Murphy would
assist, to attack and secure the 13. This Mr.Murphy
(having but one gun in his house) prudentially declined,
and the party passed in peace. They were subsequently
observed and pursued by Captain Long (magistrate)
assisted by the Rev. Mr. Moloney, Roman Catholic Curate
of Clonoulty, and the Police of the stations which they
successively passed at Rathcannon, Thomastown, and
Bansha, till their horses were tired, and they finally
lost all sight and trace of the marauders at Grantstown.
The threatening notice is given at length. It is stated
to be written in a good hand, and evinces a superior
style of Whiteboy literature.