g given his name, he stated that at the time of Ussher's death
he was in the employment of the prisoner; that he had been his
confidential servant, and was intimate with all his habits; that on
the night when the deceased was killed, at some time, he supposed,
about half-past nine o'clock, his master had entered the kitchen at
Ballycloran, and had desired him, Brady, to follow him out into the
avenue; that his master, when in the avenue, had told him that he had
killed Captain Ussher.

By this time the counsel had ceased asking questions, and as the
witness was telling his own story, we will leave it in his words.

"I thought it war poking his fun at me, yer honours--for I knowed the
Captain hadn't been at Ballycloran that night, and that the masther
had been ating his dinner at home, so I didn't be taking much notice
of what he war saying, till we war mostly half down the avenue, when
Mr. Thady told me the body war there. Well, yer honours--what with
the night, and what wid the trees it was a'most too dark to see; but
I felt the man's body with my foot, and then I know'd it war thrue
enough what the masther was afther saying. I axed no questions thin,
for I knew there'd been ill blood betwixt them, and when I comed to
remember myself, I wasn't that much surprised. But Mr. Thady axed me
what we'd be doing wid the body, and I can't exactly take upon myself
to say what I answered; but, at last, he said as how we would take it
down to Mrs. Mehan's as keeps the shebeen shop beyond Ballycloran. He
then told me something about Miss Feemy and the Captain--as how he
was carrying her off by force like, and that war why he'd stretched
him. Well, yer honours, at the bottom of the avenue, at the gate
like,--though for the matter of that, there ain't no gate there,--we
discovered the Brown Hall gig, and Mr. Fred's crop-tailed bay pony
horse standing in the middle of the road--and the masther bid me take
the body away to the police at Carrick, saying he would be off at
oncet to the mountains in Aughacashel. Well, yer honours, this I
did--I left the Captain's body with the police--I took the gig to
Brown Hall--and I brought home Miss Feemy's bundle as had been left
there in the gig, when the Captain came out into the avenue--and
that's the long and the short of what I knows about it, yer
honours--at laste, all I knows about the murder."

"The prisoner then owned to you," continued Mr. Allewinde, "that it
was he who killed Captain U