bles, however, ended here. When her
husband left her, he took a daughter, their only child, then almost an
infant, away with him, and contrived to circulate a report that he and
she had gone to America. After her return home, she followed her nephew
to this neighborhood, and that accounted for her presence there. So
well, indeed, did he manage this matter, that she received a very
contrite and affectionate letter, that had been sent, she thought, from
Boston, desiring her to follow himself and the child there. The deceit
was successful. Gratified at the prospect of joining them, she made
the due preparations, and set sail. It is unnecessary to say, that on
arriving at Boston she could get no tidings whatsoever of either the one
or the other; but as she had some relations in the place, she found them
out, and resided there until within a few months ago, when she set sail
for Ireland, where she arrived only a short time previous to the period
of the trial. She has often heard M'Ivor say that he would settle
accounts with her brother some fine night, but he usually added, "I will
take my time and kill two birds with one stone when I go about it," by
which she thought he meant robbing him, as well as murdering him, as her
brother was known mostly to have a good deal of money about him.

We now add here, although the fact was not brought out until a later
stage of the trial, that she proved the identity of the body found in
Glendhu, as being that of her brother, very clearly. His right leg had
been broken, and having been mismanaged, was a little crooked, which
occasioned him to have a slight halt in his walk. The top joint also of
the second toe, on the same foot had been snapped off by the tramp of a
horse, while her brother was a schoolboy--two circumstances which were
corroborated by the Coroner, and one or two of those who had examined
the body at the previous inquest, and which they could then attribute
only to injuries received during his rude interment, but which were now
perfectly intelligible and significant.

The next witness called was Bartholemew Sullivan, who deposed--

That about a month before his disappearance from the country, he was one
night coming home from a wake, and within half a mile of the Grey Stone
he met a person, evidently a carman, accompanying a horse and cart, who
bade him the time of night as he passed. He noticed that the man had a
slight halt as he walked, but could not remember his face,