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i ..... ini win) uurieia..-- LBrutal Murder.It again becomes our painful duty, this week to c hronicle miother brutal murder’ committod within the limits of our county, tinder most aggravating circumstances. On Wednesday last several Irish laborers employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Pennington Fur* mice, indulged freely in drink until they bo-came intoxtcated. Among the rest were Thomas Mooney and Patrick Ifnrt, both Leinster men, who left the shantco of Mr. McMahon for the purpose, it is supposed, of killing some person belonging to an opposite faction. Previous to leaving thoslumteo, lfart declared that he had killed ten men in his life time, and that he would kill another before night.A witness testified to seeing them take a bye path that led to Wynne A Anthony’s section on the New Portage road, and that Mooney had pushed Hart over a log—that both had picked up stones, but then moved on in company.Mrs. Meloy testified that shortly after dinner she went down the path and met lfart,who tried to conceal his face from her by covering it with a straw hat. A few steps farther on she discovered the dead body of Mooney. She raised an alarm immediately,nrnl Hart fled, hut ho was overtaken and arrested by Mr. McMahon aud Mr. Anthony and was brought to this place and lodged iu jail hy the police officers.A post mortem examination proved that the murdered man came to his death by stabs from a knife or some other sharp instrument—a blow from which penetrated to the spinal marrow iu the neck.A coroner’s inquest was held on Thursday. Some eight or ten witnesses were examined* and every fact brought to light tended so strongly to fix the guilt of the murder on Hart that the jury were unanimouo in bringing in a verdict to that effect.In a case like this, where* the facts will b* brought before the court, we have no further* commas to make.- Hot. 21 in*
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Huntingdon Journal
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Sep 28, 1853
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