| 词条 | Lough Mask Murders |
| 释义 |
|group="n"}} |type:event_scale:50000_region:IE_GY}} The Lough Mask Murders were the murders on 3 January 1882 of Joseph Huddy and his grandson, John Huddy, in the townland of Upper Cloghbrack, County Galway, on the southern shore of Lough Mask in the west of Ireland.[2] Joseph Huddy was the bailiff for Arthur Guinness, Lord Ardilaun, a major landlord in a region where agrarian disturbances of the Land War were prominent. The victims' bodies were found in the lough itself. The controversial lack of credible witnesses led to four well-publicised trials of the accused in December 1882. DisappearanceJoseph Huddy, who lived in Creevagh near Cong, had been bailiff for the Guinnesses for over 30 years. On the morning of the murders he left home with 17-year-old John to go to Clonbur and Cornamona to serve ejectment processes on twelve of Lord Ardilaun's tenant farmers who had been withholding rent.[3] The area was close to land managed by Charles Boycott, eponymous target of the most famous boycott of the Land War. The Huddys began service in the village of Middle Cloghbrack (also known as America) before proceeding to Upper Cloghbrack, a densely populated area with no defined village centre, on the southern shore of Lough Mask.[3] At 10am, the Huddys left their driver where the road joined the footpath south to Cornamona. They proceeded on foot after telling to meet back in about an hour, by which time they would have served ejectments ending with that for Mathias Kerrigan.[4] When they had not returned by 4 pm, the driver drove on to Cornamona where he alerted the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). The police proceeded to Upper Cloghbrack to look for the missing Huddys.[5] InvestigationThe next day, the police questioned all of the adults of Upper Cloghbrack, but no one had any information on the Huddys even though it was known that Huddy and his grandson had gone into Upper Cloghbrack for the purpose of serving ejectment papers the previous day. After tracing the Huddys' movements as far as the house of Mathias Kerrigan, the police found evidence of a struggle in Kerrigan’s yard, as well as a mark made by a bullet in the wall of the gable end of Kerrigan’s house and bloodstains on the wall. Kerrigan and his sixteen-year-old son Matthew were taken into custody.[6] For four days, the RIC dug up bogland and searched the mountains without result. Forty crewmen of HMS Banterer, a Royal Navy vessel anchored in Galway Bay, sailed up the River Corrib to Lough Mask.[7] After dragging the lake for 12 days they recovered the decomposing bodies, first John's in a sack and then Joseph's weighted with a rock in his overcoat.[6] The RIC, now believing that the death of the Huddys was a result of an entire village rising up against the process servers, arrested, in addition to Mathias Kerrigan and his son, fifteen men on suspicion of complicity in the murders.[8] Mathias Kerrigan was detained in Galway City Jail for nine months without being charged. In September 1882, he turned approver, that is, an informer, and named three men as responsible for the killings.[9] Michael Flynn and Thomas Higgins of Middle Cloghbrack and Patrick Higgins (Long) of Upper Cloghbrack were charged with the murders. [10] In four separate trials, one ending in a hung jury, in December 1882, all three men were found guilty and sentenced to death by Justice William O'Brien. Two days before his execution, Michael Flynn wrote a detailed confession of his role in the murders and exonerated Mathias Kerrigan. However, Flynn did not exonerate the two men who had also been convicted.[11] The three men were hanged in Galway City Jail in January 1883.[12] ReferencesFootnotes1. ^ {{cite web|url=http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,503053,757035,10,7|title=Galway sheet 26|date=16 April 1841|work=First-edition Six-inch map of Ireland|publisher=Ordnance Survey of Ireland|accessdate=10 April 2018}} 2. ^{{citation|title=Annual Summaries|year=1882|publisher=The Times|pages=182–186|url=https://archive.org/details/annualsummaries02londuoft/annualsummaries02}} 3. ^1 {{cite news |title=The Lough Mask Murders – Patrick Higgins on Trial |newspaper=The Morning News |location=Belfast |date=8 December 1882}} 4. ^Simonsen 2017 {{page number needed|date=April 2018}} 5. ^{{cite news |title=The State of Ireland – The Murder of the Two Bailiffs |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=3 February 1882}} 6. ^1 {{cite news |title=The State of Ireland – The Discovery of the Bodies of the Missing Bailiffs |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=30 January 1882}} 7. ^{{cite news |title=Ireland – The Murder of Lord Ardilaun’s Bailiff |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=28 January 1882}} 8. ^{{Cite news |title=Summary of News – Domestic |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=9 February 1882}} 9. ^Simonsen 2017 {{page number needed|date=April 2018}} 10. ^{{Cite news |title=The Lough Mask Murder Case |newspaper=The Morning News |location=Belfast |date=25 September 1882}} 11. ^Simonsen 2017 {{page number needed|date=April 2018}} 12. ^Simonsen 2017 {{page number needed|date=April 2018}} Sources
Citations{{reflist}} 4 : Murder in 1882|History of County Galway|1882 in Ireland|Murder in Ireland |
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