USE OF FIREARMS.
TROUBLE IN IRELAND. REMARKS BY MR. JUSTICE WRIGHT. ACTION BY THE GOVERNMENT. (BT TEE.EGUi.ru— TOESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT,) London, March 5. Several prisoners indicted at the Claro Assizes under Acts dealing with "Whikfaoyism" were acquitted.
Mr. Justico Wright commented on the widespread use of firearms, and said that almost everybody in ono locality was armed. The Earl of Crewe, speaking in,the Houso of Lords, stated that tho Government was considering the best means to check the carrying of firearms in Ireland.
1-J/ 10 ngitntion commenced in 1(61. Ihe U hiteboys assembled at night, nud wore white frocks over their clothes. They destroyed the property of landlords with whom they were displeased.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 5
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