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1 mi port Miit Arre«lif /j Oo Tursday night Detect*?? Sergeant j McAolwy lodged mThf“eouhty gaol, John . uml AJIeii Paltoatirr, two of the men ft charged upon ttievrf jici of the ooronfer’fjur., wuh the wilful murder ot Patrick• Wb#J#n - at d literary, on the 6th of Fob*h J ruary last.• J.. Tbo crrcurnaui ce# #fjf be cl-ai fy flt» jI monibered when the main facta are^iafed. |_ I Whalen, who **a a well to dgfffarmer .| I from Camden, wa* in Invrrary on juainea*, j1 1 when Ice hirff«df Interposed on benalf of a j[ rman narmd Win. Varney whom the Pal-, [ in a tiers wCr« beating, when Utft^MULatLiiii* *,’j him, and a blow of a -kuIJ orsi ker Iromj Allen Palmatier sent him %Wi a wark’-s ’I ihffertfig, to his Iasi ftc count. The aisait* P ante escaped arrect in the eaairat manner 1j possible-- • 11j AfUr the jury had brought in their ?er- f j the c«#r«tifi iasued a warrant, which f J| Detective McAuley and a county oootUblg 1 j m dear ore-1 to execute. It wm stated 1 j that the men had gone w*§t, but it if I ^ , firmly believed that they nerer left thin or • ! the adjoining county,) being carefully con- I ceakii by their friend* in a neighborhood I poewesaing considerable sympathy for them, I The matter reared till the week before ? leal, when Derectire McAuley, acting on « well founded in format ion,proceeded to the I M residence of the father of the Palmatiera, I near the tillage of Erinariile, in the town« I it•hip of Sheffield, but in breaking in on the J hifamily in the nicht time, were disappoint- . edi'aPot finding the men, who probably Islept out to avoid surprize. Further pur- jsuit araa useless v and the party IcoH*}MiMFogl jAtJr officera- returned. I « Nothinsf d anti j c A u I ey, i-till aure of I ri1 hid game being igp the right qiitrter, left I on Monday l*»t on ano’ber exprd.tion to J ^Erinaville, accompanied by Policemen eBeonett and Hoyle. The party arrived at J ]ihe PafmatierM’ before day-bresk, after a Iole of 45 mile*, and di«po»ed themaelvea *•o a* to observe all (hat waa going on at I ^he house withor.t being themaelvea ob-lerved. They saw the men emerge from I ftul|he barn and i nrer the house, and ap- ^uoaching nearer, watcried patiently their oeil| reparation* for thlt;* morning meal. Then, I ju rlnle seated at tlieir breakfast, McAuley f up i«d-Hoyle tuade a dash on the house, I aad urprixiug Palmaticrs, and taking t upse hem prisoners without~a show of resis- A ince. The prisoner^ were at once I to ® rought to the city. They gave no trou- I Tirtl le, and are not the desperate fellows the I large would imply ; in fact, are very v c uiet The eldest is only 23 years of age. I or the past thrao weeks thoy have lived c^*| i a free 0|**n manner, and anticipated a I «pt sit from our police. ietlUThe third man, Varney, is now south I i|etn, the line 45^ . Tho Palm a tiers will I (nm main in gaol until the Fall Assizes are w*ieId. * J leagi
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Kingston Weekly British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, CA
Thu, May 13, 1869
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