There is but one part more of the papers to be looked at; and that is the most painful of all. In the law reports of the Tipperary Special Commission sitting at Clonmel, you read that Patrick Byrne is brought up for sentence, for the murder of Robert Hall, Esq.: and Chief Justice Doherty says: ‘Patrick Byrne, I will not now recapitulate the circumstances of your enormous crime; but guilty as you are of the barbarity of having perpetrated with your hand the foul murder of an unoffending old man--barbarous, cowardly, and cruel as that act was--there lives one more guilty man, and that is he whose diabolical mind hatched the foul conspiracy of which you were but the instrument and the perpetrator. Whoever that may be, I do not envy him his protracted existence. He has sent that aged gentleman, without one moment’s warning, to face his God: but he has done more, he has brought you, unhappy man, with more deliberation and more cruelty, to face your God, _with the weight of that man’s blood upon you_. I have now only to pronounce the sentence of the law:’--it is the usual sentence, with the usual prayer of the judge, that the Lord may have mercy upon the convict’s soul. Timothy Woods, a young man of twenty years of age, is then tried for the murder of Michael Laffan. The Attorney-General states the case:--On the 19th of May last, two assassins dragged Laffan from the house of Patrick Cummins, fired a pistol-shot at him, and left him dead as they thought. Laffan, though mortally wounded, crawled away after the fall; when the assassins, still seeing him give signs of life, rushed after him, fractured his skull by blows of a pistol, and left him on a dunghill dead. There Laffan’s body lay for several hours, and _nobody dared to touch it_. Laffan’s widow found the body there two hours after the murder, and _an inquest was held on the body as it lay on the dunghill_. Laffan was driver on the lands of Kilnertin, which were formerly held by Pat Cummins, _the man who had the charge of the lands before Laffan was murdered_; and the latter was dragged out of Cummins’s house in the presence of a witness who refused to swear to the murderers, and was shot in sight of another witness, James Meara, who with other men was on the road: and when asked whether he cried out, or whether he went to assist the deceased, Meara answers, ‘_Indeed I did not; we would not interfere--it was no business of ours!_’ Six more instances are given of attempts to murder; on which the judge, in passing sentence, comments in the following way:--