O'BRIEN SENT TO GAOL.
H E RESTS T S THE
AUTHORITIES.
ANOTHER M.P. SUMMONED.
[UEUTETI's TELEGRAM.]
London, October 31. The hearing of the appeal case of Mr Wm. O'Brien, M.P., waa brought to a conclusion this afternoon, the full Court confirming the sentence of three mouths' imprisonment passed upon him by the Mitchelstown Court.
Upon judgment being delivered, Mr O'Brien strongly resisted the attempts of the authorities to arrest him, and a scene of great uproar, with a great amount of scuffling, took place, within the Court-houso
The prisoner was ultimately taken into custody and at once removed to Cork Gaol.
[SrECTAL TO PUESS ASSOCIATION.]
Mr O'Brien tried to leave the Court pending the issue of the warrant of committal. Messrs O'Brien, Dillon, and Lane, M.P.'s, were roughly handled. The Recorder ordered Mr Dillon's removal for disrespect. Mr J. R. Cox, Nationalist member of Parliament for East Clare, has been summoned under the Crimes Act for attending a meeting which was proclaimed by the Government.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 258, 2 November 1887, Page 3
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165O'BRIEN SENT TO GAOL. Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 258, 2 November 1887, Page 3
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