AMAZING OUTRAGE ON A GIRL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 1

AMAZING OUTRAGE ON A GIRL.

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ii lilie I etui lilllg to ii.T Inline al j.-c a s «.mj lo a m igmnmi', ii li'-.}ear-oiu ui-n gin was maile ute vieinu ol an almi/jiiig ouliuge, niileii snano-a i,u io uer inmost oeilig. ,>he, Was suddt-u-IV aeeosleil U> uiree men, dn..v,eil v, women s I'luiii,-,-., »ii.i, alter i■.-mov in;.; in. Ie eioiiuiig and gagging hot, pom ed a uuanillv ol la I' ovt.-r uer. Jll litis slitie slie W'U.i ielt oil tho I'olidsßle, he, companion, a young man who w;n c. eoriiiig lier liujne, jiaving made guuu iiis escape, evideutiy IbiuKiiig Ui-uc-tion to oo Die ijelU'f pait oi valour. .Inhumed ul what hail ocean ed, tin Uirt uiU not- U-U lier paieiits ot wiiai nad Ijapiieiied, and it was only ss l:cn it iioeamu tiie gossip ol Lb,.- locals!. i ima ncr latin, r Ueai d ol IL.

i in.- s< unci ivus hoard at I Ltei As-M-ics wiieji tlm-e young; men named • loiui MuUvy, Jaiu«> iHeluiau, ami Juiiii Cioimgtie, ol t.'ruiunaU't»vr, ueai Vi iiin.siia, (..oiiuiy Lcitruii, were ciiai-IV.-d sviih assaulting Lizzie- Montll, i' 1 , also of Oniuiualuber. Evidence liasing been given by liic girl, \> li<> jdeiitiJi'.'d BreiiUan aiui Cioiiogue, but nui Mnlvey. Michael Early, tier e>.iupaiuon, told how, as he svas tailing her hoiiie in ihe evening, three disguised men came up -"id chased them through a meadow, lie and the girl jumped the, ditch on the road, ana then he went on pas! the- men/leaving the girl behind. He wa*> alraid to lonk round though he heard a woman's cry. Shoitly afterwards Li///.)<: Moraii rejoined him. She- was- excited, but lie as Led her no questions. The next witness, called was, Thomas Croiiogue, who caused surprise by returning a negative answer to Counsel's question it lie remembered the date to svhich the charge referred, his explanation being that it was sot lone, ag". He iurthcr stated that he had been put up to say that he saw" three men on the road on the oceusain.

Counsel: loti did say there were three uieii on the road thai night. Did yen say they were the prisoners here:-—-"! couldn't say. I svas had with inflitetizu, 1 war d-luibed in the h'end, and can't.say what 1 a»aid."

Do you remember if you said you meet the three prisoner.- thai night in women.-, clothes. 1 could, not. say. 1 si as bad ill the head. Peter Moraii 'the girl's father) cante to my house and made threats.

Sou made a deposition belor,. the Magistrate;-- | did. but IVter Mnran cjiine to my houso and used threats, and J did not know what 1 was doing.

(liven leave to ei'oss-e.\ainine, counsel then read a deposition made by wiutess to the. effect that he had seen tiie three prisoner,- on (lie evening m question, first of all dressed in women's clothes, and later in ordinary attire. — Witness deditn.-d to .say whether his deposition was, true, his only reply being that lie was bad m The head at the time.

"You <-ant avoid me that '.say," ,leelared the judge, adding, "Are llm men of Leitrim all like yen and Karl>-' ! I'tlllbi'l evldi'llCO haS'illg been given s\ itm-s.-e., were then called lor (In-deli-nee. Tin- mother of the prisoner Mnlvey ileclared that l-lie prisoner -Hd not, b-'ave her home mt tin- <■■. enhig ~i oufiage.- All three <|efendant,stvore tlinkAM'.v had taken no pari m tin- incident, and (be Judge pointed oiil thai, there was no evidence against Mnlvey.--Counsel for the defence suggested that, the eMs sto-rv of t,h'"> huTUi". svas in, i edible, and <-oiild only be explained by a li.VsU-l'ical itna;:illat ion

Mr .lustiee Dodd. iii In.- .-uu'iniing up. however, leinark'-.l that it n a.----;i i-iil'l'-ll- wav lor bv.-teii.i to manliest iIM-li' T'lio modosiv „f (he fri'-b -.:.nl whs soiiiotltmg bey,.nd >les<'i'ipi i.,ii,. and tin-y were all proud of (his bmh ,-eiise of feminine nioile-dy. The responsibility svas easi upon a Helta*! jury of di-eniaiigling Ledum lies. 'I he Mltv i'oiiin.l Rreimali and A"-)n>;-ue gui'lly and Mnlvey notguiHy. Alter <liscliarging the last-named. Hie .Judge, expressed a desire for soiite informal ion as to what svas behind the olfeiiee, and isas informed by a police. sergeant that in his opiiv inn iealousv of Early was the cause. The Judge: Th- devil must have been hard at work. 'flic girl's father explained at litis pom! that nosy his daughter's character had been cleared lie did m-t sviiiit the voiing iihm) si'V'rely punIsiU'd. I'.otli prisoners were seiilener-d to three inontlis' hard labour.