THE SINN FEIN
DRAMATIC SCENE IN A COURT.
(BNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPXRIOHT.)
.(AUSIBiHAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 19th February.
An extraordinary, scene occurred in- a Police Court- at Ennis. When twentytwo youths were charged with cattledriving a Sinn Fein leader made a dramatic appearance in Court, blew three blasts from a whistle, and ordered the Sinn Feiners to follow. . The prisoners climbed out of the dock and escaped. . Four hundred Sinn Feiners, in the name of the Irish Republic, took over two hundred' acres of grazing land at Gurteen, in Sligo, for cropping purposes.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 7
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