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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



[Oct. 



and jury to view tliis scene of 

 carnage, on the 9th instant, the 

 bodies, but more particularly that 

 of Mr. Hall, exhibited almost 

 every conceivable mark of the 

 most sanguinary barbarity. Many 

 savage blows had been inflicted 

 upon his head and face, an at- 

 tempt had been made to cut his 

 throat, in defending which he was 

 deeply stubbed in various parts of 

 both ai'ms, and one of his fingers 

 was nearly severed by a cut ; in 

 his shoidders, legs, and thighs, he 

 had also many deep stabs ; but 

 the most furious attack appears 

 to have been upon the trunk of 

 his body, where four deep wounds 

 were discovered, one large enough 

 to admit three or fovu- fingers 

 quite through into the stomach, 

 another on the left side of the 

 navel, and two more (the fatal 

 wounds) which penetiated be- 

 tween thr ribs, on the left side, 

 through the left lobe of the lungs 

 iiito the left ventricle of the heart. 

 Dreadful blows had been inflicted 

 upon the head and face of the 

 housekeeper, who was also stab- 

 bed guite through one of her arms, 

 and terribly stabbed in various 

 other parts of her body, the fatal 

 stab having been diiected through 

 her left nostril into the brain. 



Thus terminated the e>Li.«tence 

 of those aged, harmless, and in- 

 offensive people, whose struggles 

 to save their lives against this 

 murderous attack must have 

 been very great ; and thei e is 

 hardly a doubt but the person or 

 persons who committed lhe.se 

 bloody deeds must have been 

 wounded in the conflict, particu- 

 larly as the prongs of a hay- fork, 

 which Hall used to keep in his 



bed-room, were found near him 

 newly broken from the shaft, and 

 covered with blood ; but neither 

 the shaft nor any other instru- 

 ment which had been used in the 

 murders could be discovered. The 

 various stabs in the bodies seemed 

 to have been inflicted by such a 

 knife as butchers use in slaughter- 

 ing cattle ; and, from some cir- 

 cumstances, it is supposed that 

 when the murders had been com- 

 pleted, the delinquents proceeded 

 to rummage the house in searcli 

 of money and other valuables, as 

 tliere were found upon the bed 

 where Hall had slept, a tea-pot con- 

 taining two 10/. notes, and just by 

 the tea-pot one other 10/. note, and 

 scattered upon the floor, near the 

 body, seven guineas in gold, and 

 several silver table and tea-spoons j 

 but that, suddenly alarmed by the 

 songs and shouts of some peisons 

 who were returning by Hall's 

 house from a harvest supper, be- 

 tween 11 and 12 o'clock in the 

 night of the murders, the barba- 

 rians instantly extinguished their 

 light, and decamped without their 

 plunder. 



9. Dublin CasWe.— The Earl Tal- 

 bot, who embarked at Holyhead, 

 at five o'clock on Wednesday, the 

 8th instant, on board his Majes- 

 ty's yacht the William and Mary, 

 arrived in this harbour at one 

 o'clock ]). m. this day. His lord- 

 ship, on his arrival in Dublin, 

 was received by the J^ord-raayor, 

 Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Commons 

 of the city of Dublin. His lord- 

 shij), attended by a squadron of 

 dragoons, proceeded to the Cas- 

 tle, and the Council having as- 

 scmbletl at four o'clock, was in- 

 troduced in form to his Excellency 



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