had met his death; that he had
no doubt death had been occasioned by two heavy blows, one of which
had fractured the skull immediately over the temple, and which was of
itself quite sufficient to cause instantaneous death; that he should
presume these blows to have been inflicted with some heavy blunt
instrument, and that he considered the stick then produced in court
and shown to him was such as had probably been used on the occasion.

This witness was not cross-examined.

Biddy was next called, and took her seat in the chair with much
trepidation; but her usual womanly volubility soon returned to her,
and she gave her evidence fluently enough. She stated that her
mistress had confided to her her intention of eloping with Ussher
on the morning of the evening on which he had been killed; that in
obedience to her mistress's commands, she had walked down the road
towards Mohill, and had met Ussher in a gig, and had put a parcel
for her mistress into it; that when she returned to the house, she
believed her master--that was the prisoner--was in the house, in her
mistress's sitting-room; that shortly after her return she saw him
come into the hall; that he then told her to go in to his sister, and
that Captain Ussher was dead. She did not know what became of him
after that, and that she had not seen him from that moment till the
present one.

Mr. O'Laugher then asked her, whether she had told any one of her
mistress's intention of eloping with Ussher, and she replied that she
had not--that she had never opened her lips on the subject to any one
before she heard the prisoner say that Captain Ussher was dead. She
also stated that it was her young master's habit to go out to the
stables every night.

She also was then allowed to go down, and Frederick Brown was called.
He proved that Ussher had revealed to him his plan of running off
with Feemy, and he stated, that not thinking much about it, he had
told three or four friends of the circumstance, and that he could not
tell whether or not it might in that manner have got round to the
ears of the prisoner.

Mr. O'Laugher in his cross-examination bothered this young gentleman
considerably, but as neither the questions nor the answers are
material to the story, it would be useless to repeat them.

The next witness was Pat Brady, and as the verdict to which the jury
came, depended in a great degree on his evidence, it will be given as
nearly as possible in detail.

Havin