THE DUBLIN POLICE
Addressing a meeting in Hyde Park, London, on February 11, Mr Handel Booth, M.P., stated that he had left Dublin because he had been threatened with violence, and because he did not want his wife to be insulted. He himself was insulted everv two or three minutee whilst he was in court during the inquiry into the conduct of the police, and received warnings and Ihmteniugs directly he arrived. Mr Booth related some of the incidents he had seen when he went to Dub-. lin as a visitor to the Horse Show. One dav he saw a man being taken into custody, apparently for being drunk. He was, however, charged with having tried to overturn a tram. The man was dragged along the gutter, and brutally treated. Mr Booth went to Dublin Castle «id told Lord Aberdeen about it. His Excellency buried his head in his hands. On another occasion,- from the balcony of his hotel he saw- a man being kicked about "like a football" by the police, and he remonstrated with the police from the balcony. A member of the City Council, warning him, said: "Remember, you are not in EnelahcL''
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Evening Star, Issue 15432, 4 March 1914, Page 9
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196THE DUBLIN POLICE Evening Star, Issue 15432, 4 March 1914, Page 9
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