LATE MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 565, 3 February 1891, Page 3

LATE MAIL NEWS.

At Munster the trial of Patrick Lucy and Michael Collins, for having, on the 4?h of August, at Mac-room, in the County of Cork, thrown vitriol at n girl named Magaret Sullivan, dressmaker, was commenced. About six o’clock at night, she and her sister were passing over a bridge which crossed the ri;er Bullane, when a vessel filled with vitriol was thrown in her face, inflicting injuries of a dreadful nature, which would prevent her probably from ever again leaving her room—at all events from ever again earning a shilling to support herself. The younger prisoner Collins threw the fluid, at the instigation, as he afterwards confessed, of Lucy. Lucy was employed in the soda water manufactory of a man named Shea, and had there obtained the vitriol. About three or four months before the occurrence, Lucy had been keeping company with Margaret Sullivan. Her father did not wish that she should encourage the society of this man, and three months before the occurrence she ceased to walk with him. This was the cause of hostility on the part of Lucy towards the girl. The medical evidence showed that the doctor who had at first attended on Miss Sullivan contracted blood poisoning, and his life was in danger for some time. The injuries of the girl were described. The left side of her face and neck had rotted away, and was now one large ulcer. Both eyelids were burnt off. The ball of the left eye had turned completely round, and the sight of that eye was permanently destroyed. The lids of the right eye were partially eaten sway, and the sight was very imperfect. The girl was barely able to distinguish light from darkness. A portion of the scalp was also burnt away, while the nose was entirely destroyed. Bo’h hands and forearms were burnt. Both prisoners were found Guilty. His Lordship, sentenced Collins to seven years’ penal servitude, and Lucy to penal servitude for life. He said the wickedness of the crime was not transcended by murder, and he was not sure but that the forfeiture of Lucy’s life would be the just measure of his crime. A telegram from Paris reports a terrible murder, which was committed in the open street. A man named Lioassin had returned to his home, on his release from a term of three years’ imprisonment, but his wife refused to live with him. They were altercating in the street, when Lacassln fired four shots at the woman with a revolver, and as she lay dying on the ground ripped her abdomen open with a large knife. He then attempted suicide. A man named Guerreron, knowa as the Mexican Jack the Ripper, has been tyied at Mexico and convicted of eight murders and 14 criminal assaults on women. He was sentenced to death. The trim Times publishes an address from twenty-three women of Oastlecomer, which was to have been presented to Mr Parnell qq the occasion of his recant visit, had not the ranks of. the police obstructed them, in this address it is stated : ‘‘ ft is the lot of North Kilkenny to make the declaration of war against you, who, after years of systematic deceit, at last stand out before the world unmasked ; you, who like another veiled prophet, stalks through the land, polluting its sacred soil by your very presence. ”