SATURDAY EXTRACTS. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 29, 5 February 1881, Page 4

SATURDAY EXTRACTS. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.

♦ BBAVE CONDUCT OF A YOTJNG LADY. A shocking outrage, which for reckless daring and unmitigated scoundrelism has not as yot been matched in the county Limerick, was perpetrated on the night of 10th December at Moig, near Castletown Waller. About 8 o"* clock in the evening the house of Mrs. Switzer, a most respectable person living in that locality, was attacked by an armed and disguised band, supposed to have consisted of from between twenty-five to thirty men. The party at first peremptorily demanded admittance, and this being refused an actual siege was laid to the house. The inmates within doors at the time consisted of Mrs. Switzer, who is advanced in years, her youngest eon and three daughters, her two eldest sons being out. The party commenced operations by firing shots in through the windows and then proceeding to utilise ploughshares, crowbars, and other implements, for the purpose of breaking in the door. Seeing the coming danger, Miss Susan Switzer, a brave girl, rushed npstairs, seized a double-barrelled gun, which was loaded with shot, and, having taken deliberate aim, discharged both of the barrels through the window at a group of the ruffianß who were standing near a wall. Whether the discharge took any effect upon the party has not transpired, but one thing is certain, that their efforts were redoubled, for in a few moments the strong door gave way. Immediately the house was crowded, and Miss Switzer was the first to feel their resentment together with other ill-treatment, the] scoundrels striking her in the most cowardly manner with the butt end of a gun. Young Switzer, who also displayed groat bravery, was likewise beaten. The party took posses3ion of two guns ; while a third, having been cleverly hidden by one of i tho Misses Switzer, escaped capture. Almost , tvery article in the house was broken, while not a pane of glass remained in the windows. Extraordinary to relate, though the din of the firing must have been heard for a considerable distance, no help arrived, and it was not until tho assailants had been gone Homo minutes that a party of police irom Pallaskenry arrived upon the scene. None of the attacking party were recognised, and of course the probability was against any arrests taking place.