He had a conference there with Dr.Clarke and with a reverend gentleman named Father Bergin, and subsequently proceeded to hold an inquest upon the child in a public-house--a most appropriate place apparently for the transactions which afterwards occurred there.

The investigation, if it might be so called, was proceeded with upon that 27th of August.

Very strong affidavits had been made on the part of Mrs.Gaffney--who applied to have the inquisition quashed--her husband, and some of the constabulary authorities as to the line of conduct pursued upon that occasion.

Ellen Gaffney and her husband were taken into custody on the day the inquest opened by the verbal direction of the Coroner, who refused to complete the depositions given by the former on the ground that she was not sworn.

That did not take him out of the difficulty, for if she was not sworn she had a right to be sworn, and the Coroner had no right to prevent her.