CRIME IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4607, 11 March 1902, Page 5

CRIME IN IRELAND.

(Received March 10, 11 p.m.) LONDON, March 10. _ Mr Justice Andrews, at the Sligo Assizes, declared that tho state- of the county' was highly unsatisfactory. Forty-seven branches of the league were in operation and boycotting was intolerable. There were twenty-six evicted farms, eleven derelict and eleven protected families. It was the urgent duty of the authorities to protect peaceable citizens. The Grand Jury, in endorsing the Judge’s remarks, added: —“ The ruling powers in many districts aro constituted branches of tho league. Tho law is superseded by a reign of terror. The Government ought to suppress illegal combination.” (Received March 11, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON. March 10. Mounted men in disguise fired revolvers through the windows of a house occupied by' Mrs Mclnerney near Kilrush, County Clare. A patrol appeared and demanded tho surrender of the men. The moonlighters were fired on, but escaped. Two young fanners, Crawley and Eustace, have boon arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the outrage. , Mrs Mclnerney had purchased hay from a farmer named Cunningham, who had been censured by tho League for occupying an evicted farm.