She replied, “Yes, he just came in this minute.”

“What direction did he come from?”

“From the direction of your own house,” she answered.

It should be stated, however, that his wife, at once recollecting his jealousy, told him immediately that the person who had left the house was her brother; but he rushed on, and paid no attention whatsoever to her words.

From this period forward he never lived with her, but she has heard recently—­no longer ago than last night—­that he had associated himself with a woman named Eleanor M’Guirk, about thirty miles farther west from their original neighborhood, near a place called Glendhu, and it was at that place her brother was murdered.

Neither her anxieties nor her troubles, however, ended here.  When her husband left her, he took a daughter, their only child, then almost an infant, away with him, and contrived to circulate a report that he and she had gone to America.  After her return home, she followed her nephew to this neighborhood, and that accounted for her presence there.  So well, indeed, did he manage this matter, that she received a very contrite and affectionate letter, that had been sent, she thought, from Boston, desiring her to follow himself and the child there.  The deceit was successful.  Gratified at the prospect of joining them, she made the due preparations, and set sail.  It is unnecessary to say, that on arriving at Boston she could get no tidings whatsoever of either the one or the other; but as she had some relations in the place, she found them out, and resided there until within a few months ago, when she set sail for Ireland, where she arrived only a short time previous to the period of the trial.  She has often heard M’Ivor say that he would settle accounts with her brother some fine night, but he usually added, “I will take my time and kill two birds with one stone when I go about it,” by which she thought he meant robbing him, as well as murdering him, as her brother was known mostly to have a good deal of money about him.

We now add here, although the fact was not brought out until a later stage of the trial, that she proved the identity of the body found in Glendhu, as being that of her brother, very clearly.  His right leg had been broken, and having been mismanaged, was a little crooked, which occasioned him to have a slight halt in his walk.  The top joint also of the second toe, on the same foot had been snapped off by the tramp of a horse, while her brother was a schoolboy—­two circumstances which were corroborated by the Coroner, and one or two of those who had examined the body at the previous inquest, and which they could then attribute only to injuries received during his rude interment, but which were now perfectly intelligible and significant.

The next witness called was Bartholemew Sullivan, who deposed—­