OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 89, 8 January 1908, Page 8

OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.

LANDLORD FIRED 'ON. '

An'outrage'of an unusually'cowardly character was committed' at Kilfconibrari,'. Co.' Galway. - ■■ v ■' ; 'Mr; Helenus "Whito 'HbllypArk, Craughwbll, had just loft tli'ii' village church ■with ' his ' mother," Mrs. White)" who -is seventy-fivoiyears .old, when'shots 'jvero. fired at them from a'th'ibket. ; '

Mr. : White Blako was. struok'in the leg by somo of the pellets, and his inother was,also wounded and. fell, to tho, ground.

■ The . wounds .'.were not- serioiis 'owing; to the shots were fired, but Mrs;.. White is reportikl ;to be 'na 'precarious condition owing to I the : terrible shock she sustained.., . v.." '• •

, Threo other members. of . the 'cdfigreg-Uioa were wounded at- tho. same; tune.

. The assailants, who ..fired . twice,, were, hidden in a thicket'about forty, from the path along which' Mr. White-Blako a'nd.Eis mother, were walkings Mr.-Whito Blakehas for sQino timo.bepnjmder police protection, and two armed constables wero escorting him at tho timo.-.;

Tlioy at onco fired their,'revolvers .'into: tho thicket,- .audwinado. a dash -for-.the - invisible assailants,.but tho undergrowth;'was .so thick that they were.uhabloito, find Tthe men. ESCABE BY-. A" ROSE. .

' Cheers ancL jeers, raised iieh'r Mr. 'Whito Blake,. .apparently by confederates of tho assailants, led. tho. constables' to. run back to the scene, of tlio".'shobtine,*'with' the ,result that, tho"men who hadrfired; got ! away. ' This outrage,which. -short's' li6w'serious tho situation is' b'ccdming' in'- tho west of Ireland','is tho'outcome of demands madoVoh Mr.- White Blako by' 'tho. .United'' Irish League. ' Mr. ■ Whito ■ -Blako.. ■ holddi;. from. 'Lord Ardilaun" a farm which dovetails ' into his own demesne. ; Tho'United Irish League demanded that ho'shbuld'give up the;famr; for small holdings, arid droVo hiJ off. tho land.

Subsequently' Mr. White Blake agreed-to givo up tho farm,, except that part which runs into liis other ' property. ■ . The Leag'uo was at first inclined, to acceptj.;but..finally.rejected this l offer;-' and, since, then .Mr.' 'Vi'hito Ulalco has ' lived"; under.the ban of ; the

leaguers. . ■In July; lastshots wero." Tired-'into' his house,' but' on that occasion lib. escaped . irijury. •... '■ .J."

Early in, the eighties M man was -murdered in similar circumstances .(ilniost on the sam'o spot'lis, that' on which'. Sunday's outrago occurred. 1 ' Tho .'first man on that occasion, to-'ruu to.; tho help ;of the . victim was Mr./ Joh- Blake, tho'.'uncle of'-'tho present owner'of'Hollypark. ,