Montgomery, the Sub-Inspector of Irish Constabulary, who murdered Mr. Glasse,
the Bank Manager, at Newtown Stewart, some two years ago, was hanged at Omagh Gaol on Tuesday. His crime was utterly without excuse, and was clearly planned with a fiendish deliberation. Counting upon his intimacy with his victim, the murderer made his way into the Manager's private room, which in a small country bank in Ireland is the most secluded place imaginable, stunned Mr. Glasse with a blow of a hammer, drove a file into his ear, and possessing himself of a large sum of money, quitted the bank, after coolly holding a conversation with an old lady, an inmate of the house, on whose testimony he evidently counted to divert suspicion from him. He hid his spoils when suspicion was directed against him, and twice escaped the punishment he merited by the disagreement of the juries that tried him, the evidence being entirely circumstantial. On his conviction at the last summer assizes at Omagh he made a partial confession of his guilt, endeavouring at the same time to discredit the wit- nesses for the prosecution, and making frantic charges against his wife's family of having "drugged and maddened" him. He was executed on Tuesday, and is said to have left a second confession, the purport of which, however, has not yet been published.
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