Last night about 8 o'clock he was missed, and on being searched for was found almost naked near the body of his victim, whose brains had been beaten out with stones. The surmise is that in a sudden fit of frenzy he followed old Teahan, who had been in the employment of the family for years before the demented young man was born, and with the strength given by madness, did away with him. A great deal of sympathy is felt for the Shanahan family, who are most highly respectable and popular, that this terrible tragedy should cast a shadow on their lives.

Young Shanahan was arrested last night by Sergeant Noone and brought to Tralee this morning. Later particulars show that the old man's mangled body was found by four young boys in the roadside. They rushed to Shanahan's house and gave the alarm. On their return to the scene they saw accused lifting the body and endeavouring to conceal it under the furze covering of a high fence. He failed to do so before the boys returned, and when the police came to arrest him was found in bed. He made a statement which the police have not so far disclosed. The accused was brought up at the Tralee Police Barracks this afternoon, before Mr Jn Walsh, JP on the capital charge.

Freeman's Journal 29 October 1857 CORONERS' Inquests. Dr Kirwan, city coroner, held an inquest yesterday at Smith's livery stables, Anne-street, on the body of a female infant which was found under an archway at Upper Pembroke-street on the previous day.

Surgeon Porter deposed that there were no marks of violence on the body. A verdict in accordance with the facts was returned by the jury. Another inquest was held by Dr Kirwan at Ash-street, on the body of a child named Frederick Fox.

It appeared that on the previous day the grandmother of the child left him in a room in which there was a quantity of matches left lying about the floor. She locked the door when going away, and on her return she found the deceased with his clothes all on fire. She at once extinguished the flame, but the child was so severely injured that he died shortly afterwards. A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Jury; but the foreman, Mr Hughes, expressed, in strong terms, his disapprobation of the conduct of the woman in going out and locking a child in a room where there were articles of a combustible nature placed within his reach.