CREDULOUS IRISHMAN.
FARMER DUPED BY WOMEN. EVIDENCE IN COURT CASE. DUBLIN, Aug. S. The rural credulity and ignorance which still prevail in certain districts of Ireland were vividly illustrated at Portarlington, where Patrick Kelly, an elderly farmer from Gort, astonished the Court with a description of how he was robbed of £SOO. Kelly said three strange women called at his farm. One said that she was the last born child of triplets, and therefore was able to enre his ailments. She declined silver, and demanded notes. He handed her a £IOO note, believing it was "for God." Later he gave her three more notes of equal amount. "She put the cross of Christ on my head, saying that the cure 'would otherwise be incomplete." Kelly's wife said in evidence that she saw Kelly give the woman a handful of £IOO notes. She personally gave him a fifth because she thought that the stranger was a "blessed woman." The trio were committed for trial.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19718, 18 August 1927, Page 9
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