A LIMERICK RIOT.
PROTESTANT'S HOUSE STORMED.
London*, June 26. Some lively scenes have lately been witnessed id Limerick. For the last two Sundays members of the Confraternity of the Holy Family have taken possession of the streets of the city. Altars have been erected and decorated, and thousands have marched in processiom reciting prayers and holding services. An extraordinary incident was one that occurred at the house of a poor Protestant woman. One of her lodgers, a Catholic mechanic, ordered her to remove a text that was hanging in the kitchen, but as she refused the fellow took the text down himself, ■ The woman subsequently hung the text up again.
Later in the day a crowd of some hundreds attacked the woman's house, and wrecked all the crockery and furniture. The hapless woman herself was seized by the hair and dragged into the street, where she was thrown down and kicked.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15349, 9 July 1913, Page 11
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151A LIMERICK RIOT. New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15349, 9 July 1913, Page 11
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