CATTLE SALES
OFFICIALS KIDNAPPED
AFFAIR AT CLONMEL
LONDON, August 25,
Messrs. A. Quirke, a Tipperary rate collector and auctioneer, and John Slattery, assistant registrar, who had sold seized cattle at Clonmel ou Monday, were kidnapped from their homes, blindfolded, and taken in ears to an isolated mountain village. They were given cigarettes and whisky eu route and tied to posts. Slattery, after a straggle, obtained matches from his pocket and burned the ropes, freeing himself and Quirke. Thirty cattle seized at Clonmel for non-payment of annuities were sold and bought in' for the owner. A subsequent meeting of farmers declared that they would unite to defeat the Government, which was ruining them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 9
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112CATTLE SALES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 9
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