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Thomkins Brew, Esq., resident magistrate, fl. August 1843. Brew was assaulted while been helped by police in arresting a man engaged in rioting - "that man was McDonagh from a place called Ballyboggan" - at the Fair of Turloughmore, County Galway. This resulted in an affray in which Brew and a number of the policemen were injured. After escaping to the safety of a house owned by a family called Qualter. Their attackers ceased, and some twenty minutes later the police fired a volley of some twenty shots, which resulted in the death of a John Callaghan (murder victim) of Moycullen. Brew and the policemen were found guilty of wilful murder. The Tuam Herald reported that
But Brew was never brought to trial as he was killed in a shooting shortly after. ==References== * ''In Their Own Words: The Parish of Lackagh–Turloughmore and its People'', ed. Liz Blackmore, John Cronin, Donal Ferrie and Brid Higgins, Galway, 2001. ISBN 0-9539834-0-4. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomkins Brew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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