Another very malignant murder was committed at Scarteeu, near Killarney,
on Sunday, by a party of " Moonlighters." John Leahy, an old man of great respectability, who had been a sort of bailiff under Lord Kenmare, but bad latterly given up all business of that kind to attend to his own farms, was murdered by a party estimated at between twelve and fifteen men by the widow who saw all that went on, Leahy was dragged out of bed and placed on his knees, and then three of the party in suc- cession, No. 1, No. 10, and No. 14, were ordered to fire at him by the leader, and did fire. The murder was finished by a bayonet-thrust. The assassins then searched for the son, who had fortunately gone out to visit his brother-in-law, and had not returned. The servant men who witnessed the murder never interfered, and would not comply with the entreaty of the widow to go over to her son-in-law's and fetch her son back. Six arrests have been made, and all the six persons arrested have been remanded for a week, It
is conjectured that the murder was due to a supposed interfer- ence of Leahy's in the transfer of a farm, which, having been promised to another man, was afterwards let to Leahy's sou-in- law. The worst feature in this and many similar cases is the apathy of bystanders. In the Maamtrassna case that dis- tressing feature seems to be missing.
