Hello All A bit of news from July 1829
1 Jul. 1829 Shocking Murder at Augher On Monday last, a bench of Magistrates, consisting of J.C. MOUTRAY, Rev. Francis GERVAIS, and Stuart MULLIGAN, coroner of the County Tyrone, assembled at Augher, pursuant to an adjournment of an inquest from the proceeding day in order to investigate the circumstances of a murder committed on Owen CAMPBELL of Beltony. The jury, being previously sworn at the house of the deceased and two surgeons in attendance, a detail of evidence was given, from which it appeared that deceased was returning from the fair of Augher on 12th May last, in company with his brother Thomas CAMPBELL, when they were violently attacked by a party of sanguinary ruffians. Thomas was the first assaulted and battered in an unmerciful manner when Owen, coming to his assistance, was knocked down with a huge weapon and beaten with stones, until he was apparently lifeless on the road. His skull was fractured dreadfully but he lived in great agony until Saturday last, when death closed his sufferings. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against George GILLESPIE of Abel's bridge, Jame MANEARY and others, yet unknown. CAMPBELL was a man of diminutive size, of mild temper, and of such inoffensive disposition, as to be called "civil Owen". GILLESPIE and MANEARY have both absconded. 6 Jul. 1829 We, the undersigned persons, having long felt the inconvenience arising from the want of a public conveyance between Belfast and Derry, through Castledawson and Magherafelt and having every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which the proprietors of the Express Coach have hitherto conducted their establishment upon that line of read, hereby declare our resolution give that Coach every encouragement in our power, and a preference any other conveyance upon the same line, long as shall conducted with the same attention the public comfort and accommodation. Magherafelt 3 July 1829. Thos. A. VESEY George VESEY David DUNCAN Josiah BRYAN Geo. W. BLATHWAYT John HULL Robert Evans D. GAUSSEN & sons Henry WATERHOUSE William BRYAN GAUSSEN & DAWSON Lewis WALSH Henderson BOYLE John DUNCAN Robert COCHRAN Samuel TWIGG Joshua ADAMS Henry RICHARDSON Robert HAGAN James HUGHES Robert SANDS David CHAMBERS Wm. WILSON John LOVE D. CHAMBERS Jun. John WALKER E. ASH Rowley MILLER Arthur DAWSON M. WILLIAMS John Rowley MILLER John & Hu. WILSON Robert GAGE William SHANNON &c. The Proprietors of the Express between Belfast and Derry with feelings of gratitude, beg to return their warmest thanks to those highly respectable gentlemen who have, unsolicited, come forward and signed the above document in support of their Coach, and beg to assure them that it shall be their constant study to merit a continuance of the unprecedented patronage which they have hitherto experienced. N.B. The Coleraine Day Coach runs as usual starting at Twelve o'clock on the mornings of Monday, Wednesday and Friday from the Royal Hotel Donegall place and returning from Coleraine on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 6:00 o'clock, arriving in Belfast at one. Death On the 25th ult. in the 50th year of her age, in consequence of a fall from a jaunting car, Hannah, wife of Mr. William COOPER Craigantlett, near Newtonards. The sudden and untimely death of this good and amiable woman has cast a melancholy gloom over her surviving relatives and friends, which can only be conceived by those who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. The treasurers of the House of Industry and the Fever Hospital have received from Mr. Michael MURPHY of Belfast, the former the sum of 20s. and the latter of 30s. being part of a fine levied by Sir Stephen MAY off two of Mr. MURPHY'S workmen, at his request, for drunkenness and neglect of their duty, while in his employment. The treasurer of the House of Industry has received from the Police Magistrate, 2s. 6d., paid to stop a prosecution. Also, the following sums, levied for being drunk and riotous on the streets; Samuel TURNER 2s. 6d.; Wm. BOYD 2s. 6d.; James CRAWFORD, 2s. 6d. transcribed by Teena from the Belfast Commercial Chronicle and Saunders's Newsletter Cheers! -- www.cotyrone.com http://lists.cotyrone.com/mailman/listinfo/ulsterancestry https://www.facebook.com/groups/CoTyroneIrelandGenealogy/ _______________________________________________ UlsterAncestry@cotyrone.com UlsterAncestry Mailing List Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/ulsterancestry@cotyrone.com/ https://lists.cotyrone.com/mailman/listinfo/ulsterancestry Website: https://cotyrone.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CoTyroneIrelandGenealogy/
