24 GIRLS HELD UP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17081, 14 October 1929, Page 7

24 GIRLS HELD UP

ASTONISHING OUTRAGE BONFIRE OF CLOTHES (Australian and N.Z. Prnss Association.) LONDON, October 12. A party of 24 pretty Dcrry colleens returning to London after a dance at Fort Lccnan were the victims of an astonishing outrage at the hands of 14 t ' armed, masked men, near Clonmary. The girls had been the guests of the Boyal Artillery at Fort Leenan. Their hosts had provided a motor omnibus to take- them home in the small hours, when masked men stopped the omnibus when it was half-way on the journey. At the point of the revolver they forced the girls .to submit to being driven to the lonely isle of Doagh, which is a notorious "haunt of potheenmakers. Here the girls were compelled to take off their shoes, stockings, nnd bull dresses, which were gathered in a heap. Petrol was then poured on the clothing, and it was set ablaze. The girls and the soldier-driver wore then lined up and told they were to be shot, but the masked men finally turned the girls adrift on the lonely countryside to find their way to Londonderry without their shoes, stockings, and coats.