It was twenty-four years after the murder of Murty, namely, in the spring of 1830, that a woman was making her way across a stream running through a gentleman’s grounds in the county of Sligo, when she was prevented by a caretaker, who obliged her to turn back. “_Skirria snivurth_,” exclaimed the woman with bitter earnestness, “but don’t think, _durneen sollagh_ (dirty Cuffe) but I know you well; an, thank God, any way ye can’t murther _us_, as ye did Murty Lavan long ago.” Her words were heard by a policeman who chanced to be angling along the stream, and who promptly brought her into the presence of a magistrate, where, after the policeman had stated what he heard, she attempted at first to draw in her horns and retract her words. “Well, my good woman,” said the magistrate, “what expressions were those you used just now?” “Ou, only some _ramask_ (nonsense), yer honour.” “Did you not accuse a man of murder?” “In onough, I dunno what I sed when the spalpeen gev us the round, and the vexation was upon us.” “You must speak to the point, woman.” “Wethen sure yer honour wouldn’t be after mindin’ what an oul’ hag sed when she was in the passion.” “Policeman, repeat the expressions exactly.” The policeman repeated his former statement. “Now swear the hag, and I warn her if she doesn’t tell the whole truth, I will myself see her transported.” The woman, now thoroughly frightened, admitted that she knew the person who prevented her from crossing the stream to be Cuffe or Durneen, who was charged with having been the principal in the murder of Murty the Shaker. Cuffe was accordingly apprehended, and having been fully identified by Murty’s wife, who was still in existence, having continued a pensioner of the Mayo grand jury since her husband’s murder, was committed to the Mayo jail, to the astonishment and regret of his employer. The extraordinary part of Cuffe’s case seems to us not by any means that he should have been detected after the lapse of twenty-four years, but it does seem a singular fact indeed, that, notwithstanding a description of him in the Hue and Cry as the person who had struck the mortal blow with the hatchet, and the large rewards offered for his apprehension, he should have remained undiscovered for such a protracted period, so immediately adjacent to the scene of his crime. Most of our readers are aware that Sligo adjoins Mayo--nay, the barony of Tirawley, in which the murder was perpetrated, is only separated by the river Moy from the county of Sligo, so that one portion of the town of Ballina is in Mayo, and the other in Sligo; and yet, in all probability, were it not that Providence directed the steps of the woman to that stream for the first and last time in her life, he might have remained there undiscovered to the end of his natural life, which could not then be far distant, his head being completely silvered at the time of his apprehension.