IRELAND.
The Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess St. Germans returned to tiublin, from Liverpool, on Wednesday.
James JEneas Prendergast, a young man, has been arrested at Liverpool on a charge of murdering Maurice Prendergast at Claremorris. James in- tended to proceed to America in company with Mary Connor, an Irish girl : she also was arrested. James is cousin to Maurice, whose barbarous murder was mentioned last week. After Maurice had been killed, his murderer dia. membered the body, cut off the head, and sank the remains in a pond. In James's cabin were found evidences that the butchery had been perpetrated there—blood on the wall, and one joint of the vertebras of a human neck, which fitted to the mutilated remains of Maurice. The victim was a carafel man, and had saved money to emigrate ; James was dissolute.
Mr. Arthur Lee Guinness, of Stillorgan Park, near Dublin, seems to have been victimized to the amount of 4341. by means of a very shallow artifice. Mr. Guinness wished to dispose of his mansion ; Henry Meyers, a Jew, introduced himself, as an acquaintance of Mr. Hail- stone, an English friend of Mr. Guinness's. Meyers represented that he could obtain a purchaser for the house—General Peroffsky, a Russian Prince who bad fled from St. Petersburg : the bait was taken ; then Meyers said he had a number of articles of verta which he thou ht the General would bu — if properly 'exhibited in Stillorgan House. The upshot was, that Mr. Guinness not only consented to receive the articles, but gave Meyers promis- sory notes representing their pretended value. They were really worth only 631. The "Russian General" did not appear ; the Jew, after some scenes,. disappeared. But be has been arrested at Greenwich, and taken to Dublin.
Michael Butler, engineer at Dalkey quarry, has shown great presence of mind in a dreadful emergency. Whilst engaged in attending to the ma- chinery, his foot slipped, and he fell forward ou the cogs, his left arm being driven into the teeth. Seeing the nature of his position, he threw himself backwards and to one side, to allow, as he said, his arm to be mashed off, but to save his life ; which he thus effected. The remainder of the limb has been amputated, and the patient is going on well.
Previous page
