TAR AND FEATHERS.
A girl VICTIM. k I YOUNG MEN’S JEALOUSY. t i LONDON, Dec. 9. The Times correspondent at Belfast states t that the story of an extraordinary outrage c ■was heard at'the Ulster Assizes, when three i young mon were charged with assaulting a f girl of 19. . , . ■ |.t was stated that the ihreo dfcessed in , women's dollies, and Wearing veils followed the girl and a young man on an evening 1 walk. The young man bolted, and the girl • was thrown down, gagged, and tarred and feathered. The police attributed the assault lo jealousy The father of the girl pleaded for mercy for the accused on the grounds that ids daughter’s character had been cleared. Two of the accused were sentenced to three months’ hard labour. The third was acquitted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1704, 18 December 1919, Page 6
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