SUDDEN DEATH NEAR CHARLEMONT.--

On the night of Friday the 10th inst., a man named Thomas Mullan, of most inoffensive, sober and industrious habits, left Moy where he had been working during the day, for his residence in Kineary, about a mile distant; his near way home was along the Blackwater bank, having to cross a footstick over the Callan river before reaching home. The night was awfully severe, the rain falling in torrents, and it would appear he had approached within a short distance of the Callan, as his stick was found adjoining it; but whether owing to the darkness of the night or not, it cannot now be ascertained, he seems from the foot-marks to have wandered backwards through Charlemont bog, retracing his course too near the lock-pit of the Ulster Canal, where his body was found the next morning with his coat and hat off, and deep impressions of his feet on the soil, as if struggling in some convulsive effort before death ensued. No marks of violence appeared on the body, nor is there the slightest suspicion of such being the case of his untimely and mysterious death.

A coroner's inquest was held on Sunday morning before George Henry, Esq., of Tassagh, and a verdict returned to the effect that he had foundered owing to the inclemency of the weather, and having mistaken his way. Mullan has left a wife and large family to deplore his loss. The high road from Charlemont to Kineary is upwards of two miles and a half round, whereas across Charlemont bog it is not more than half a mile by a very dangerous path, and within the last five years four or five individuals have been loss [sic] travelling it, including, amongst others, the daughter of the deceased. It is deeply to be regretted that the Grand Jury of this county do not take steps to form a road here, with a light bridge across the Callan, a measure which would not only conduce to the safety of life, but likewise open a densely populated and fertile district of country, which is now completely insulated by the rivers Blackwater and Callan.

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