PEER'S WIDOW STORED
AN IRISH TRIAL,
An extraordinary story was told at i the Dublin Central Criminal Court, t when Bernard Hoavey was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment on a charge of illegal and riotous assembly at Ardfry, Oranmore, near Galway City, on August 9, 1926. It was alleged that lie and other persons compelled employees of Lady Wallscourt (widow of Lord Wallscourt, who died in 1918) to give up then work at the Wallscourt estate as caretakers. , , , Lady Wallscourt, it was stated, went from London to 1 reland to take up apartments in the steward’s lodge, then occupied by a man named Stephens and his family. , , , , Masked and armed men, led by Heavey undisguised, called upon Lady Wallscourt to sign an undertaking that Stephens and his family should leave the place. , , Lady Wallscourt denounced them as cowards. Another house, occupied by one of Lady Wallscourt’s employees, was attacked. > Heavey and other men were arrested, and their trial was an occasion for a public demonstration in Galway, where Lady Wallscourt was stoned and assaulted when she appeared outside the courthouse. , , . The atmosphere at Galway was such that the place of the trial had to be transferred to the Dublin central Criminal Court.
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Evening Star, Issue 19589, 22 June 1927, Page 2
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202PEER'S WIDOW STORED Evening Star, Issue 19589, 22 June 1927, Page 2
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