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THE MURDER AT EVANDALE.
The adjourned inquest upon the body of Richard
Furlong who died in the Cornwall Hospital on
20th ult., was resumed yesterday afternoon at the
" Queen's Head Hotel," Wellington street.
Eliza Higgins sworn said-- I am the wife of
Thomas Higgins of Evandale, who has gone away
reaping. I was staying at Perth up to the 17th
February taking care of a house for a person who
was about removing to it; I went to Colgrave's
lodging house at Evandale that day for some
clothes which I had left at the time I was lodg-
ing there with my husband. I went to Side-
bottom's for a pint of rum that morning at 10 o'clock.
I there saw a man who asked me where I was
lodging; I told him; he asked if he could get
lodgings at the same place; I replied that he
could if he paid; he then went to Colgrave's ; I
did not know the man before that ; I was in bed
when deceased and his mate and a woman came
into the room where I was at 9 o'clock,
that night, I woke up when they
entered; there was a man in the room
with me when they came in ; he slept on a low
bed in the corner; I lay on a bed on the floor;
the woman and the deceased were in one bed, the
other man laid down on a stretcher with his
clothes on ; when the deceased and the woman
went to bed there was a light in the room. Mrs.
Colgave took it away after they had retired to
rest. The room was all quiet until about half-
past 11 o'clock when I was awoke by hearing
deceased shout out " Murder;" I only heard him call
out once; on looking up I saw that deceased's mate
had hold of him ; I asked the mate what was the
matter; he said " he's a murdered man;" I said,
"why, then, don't you give an alarm ?" he re-
plied he was too frightened; I then went and
called Mrs. Colgrave, and stopped outside in the
kitchen, undressed as I was; the door was not
locked,- there was no lock upon it; when I
awoke there was a lighted candle; the woman
was sitting up, looking at deceased ; the man on
the truckle bed was lying quite still; I did not
see any one pass out of the room or the back
door; I heard no altercation, scuffle, or any noise
until I was awoke by the cry of murder; I never
heard deceased speak after he shouted murder; I
did not know the woman who was in bed with de-
ceased; I only knew one of the men in the back
room ; he was called "Black Jack ;" I did not
know whether any of those men were absent from
their room; deceased and his mate brought in
some rum with them ; I saw them and the woman
drinking it soon after they entered the room ; the
man I met at Sidebottom's did not lie with me; I
believe he slept in another room ; I did not speak
to him after he put a pistol to my ear; when
he first came to the house in the morning I asked
him what was his name; he replied, "If you had
any idea who I am you would not ask me that ;"
I said, "I suppose you are only a man;" he had
shot and small caps with him; when he put the
pistol to my ear he said, "how would you like to
take the contents of that?" I said I would not
like it at all ; he had bullets with sharp ends,
which he showed to Mr. Colgrave; I never saw
him after that day.
Richard Marriott, District Constable at Evan-
dale, deposed-In consequence of Constable
Leach telling me that a man had been stabbed
at Colgrave's Lodging House I proceeded to the
house and found deceased lying on a bed tick in
a back room, his bowels protruding from a
wound; the woman who slept with deceased was
sitting by him, holding one hand in one of
hers and resting the other on his shoulder, appa-
rently consoling him; Patrick Mallon his mate
and a man named John Wilkinson were also in
the room; the last witness was going about the
house drunk ; she attempted to enter
the room but I prevented her ;
I searched the room for any weapon which might
have been used to inflict the wound; I was told
that a man was missing from one of the other
bedrooms, and from information received from Mrs.
Colgrave I was of opinion that the missing man had
escaped out of the back; I searched the yard but
could not find any tracks or weapon; I then took

all the persons in the house into custody; I have
since heard that the name of the missing man is
Patrick Malony, nicknamed the "priest; " I have
not been able to trace the woman who was in bed
with deceased; nor Mallon his mate, nor Wilkin-
son who lay on the truckle bed; I
traced two of the four men who lay
in the room with the missing man to
Longford, but I lost the run of them there ; when
decesed's wound was dressed, I asked him how
he got wounded ; he first said he was in too much
pain; I told him it was necessary he should give
me the information, and asked him to whisper
the name of the person who did it to me ; Dr.
Wigan told him that his wound was likely to
prove fatal, and he ought to tell; he told the
doctor not to discourage him, but to send for a
priest, and still refused to tell, although I re-
peatedly asked him after that ; I found on the
person of Patrick Mallon, at the watchhouse, an
acknowledgment from Mr. Bell, of the River
Nile, to the effect that deceased had left £10
with him; deceased said he had given it to Mallon
to take care of; I have ascertained that the
woman who passed as deceased's wife was Maria
Hanlon alias "Ball-room Jack's wife"; she was
drunk, and Colgrave and nearly all the lodgers in
the house were more or less under the
influence of liquor; I could not obtain any
information from them; the only lod-
gers who appeared sober were MaIlon
and Black Jack; he and an attendant overseer at
the Cornwall hospital were examinled, and pro-
duced the clothing worn by deceased ; the mark of
a cut through the front of two shirts worn by
deceased was plainly visible ; deceased would not
tell the hospital people who inflicted the wound.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a
verdict that "Deceased died fromt inflammation
of the abdomen from a wound inflicted by some
sharp instrument, but how or by whom it was in-
flicted there was no evidence to show."
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