NEW TYPE OF OUTRAGES.
FIGHT WITH RAIDERS. (Elec. Tel. Copvnght—United Press Assn.) ; " LONDON Sept. 11. A new type of outrages has commenced m Ireland. In the presence of a large crowd an engine-driver was chained to a- tramway standard with a placard inscribed •"IScab" across the chest. Another man, was blindfolded and bound to a telegraph pole m the chief street of Carrickmacross, with a placard with the words; "I am a thief. I stole eggs," fastened to him.- A body of Sinn Feiners seized ex-Captain Mlurphy, a well-known Tralee man, while^ golfing, stripped him, and tarred him from head to waist. It was alleged he had applied for a cadetship m the Irish Constabulary. ' ' ' Mr. Forbes, traffic .superintendent at Donegal, fought ten men who were attempting, to raid a mail van, captured one, and shot two dead.-»-A. and N.Z. C.A.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 3
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