In the Dublin Commission Court, yesterday, Mr. Kirwan was found
guilty of the murder of his wife, and sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Crampton. The evidence was circumstantiaL Mr. Kirwan was an artist, living by sketching. He had been married twelve years; but the whole of that.time he had been living also withanother woman, by whom he had eight children. Neither of the women knew of her rival until, six months before her death, Mrs. Kirwan learned the fact. On the 6th of September, the Kirwan went to the little island called " Ireland's Eye," in Dublin Bay, to sketch. Kir- wan had a sword-cane with him. Another party visited the island, and at four o'clock saw Mrs. Kirwan alive ; the couple being then left alone on the island. At seven o'clock cries of distress on the island were heard. When the boatmen returned at eight o'clock according to their instructions, Mrs. Kirwan was missing ; and after a search her body was found on a rock. The incident is thus described by one of the boatmen—" Her bathing-dress was up under her arms, and there was a sheet under her ; her head was lying back in. a hole, and her feet were in a pool of water about the full of my hat—about half a ga/lon. I saw cuts on her forehead and under her eye ; there was blood coming down by her ears, from her side and breast, and other places." Kirwan told the boatmen that his wife left him to bathe at half-past six o'clock; but the continued fall of the tide proved that she could not have been drowned or carried by the waterlo the spot where ahe was found. The boatmen found her clothes in a spot which they had previ- ously searched, after Kirwan had been a short time absent from them. The body showed marks of violenee; but a Coroner's inquest found a verdict of "Accidental death" ; and the body 'was buried in a part of Glasnevia ceme- tery, so wet that in two months the-body was decomposed.
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