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County of Westmeath Assizes.
The Castlepollard Affair.

The Grand Jury assembled on Monday morning, and proceeded to examine witnesses in the Castlepollard affair, after which the Foreman returrned into Court, with all the bills for murder ignored, but accompanied by an intimation that the Grand Jury were ready to entertain bills for manslaughter. At seven o'clock bills were returned against James Mills and Peter Blake for manslaughter, for the homicide of P. Dignan. Bills were subsequently returned against Richard Meares and Peter Blake, for the homicide of John Slevin...

Belfast (Ireland) News-Letter, July 29, 1831.