THE MOONLIGHTERS
Eleven Moonlighters and eight prisoners charged with being concerned m political outrages have been convicted at Cork. Mr Wilfrid Blunt has resisted the endeavors of the gaol officials to make him wear the prison garb. The gaoler succeeded m removing his overcoat from the cell, and Blunt declared to the justices who visited him, that Mr A. J. Balfour, Irish Secretary, had told him that the Government' intended to solve the Irish difficulty by imprisoning the the leaders of the National party, and treating them as criminals. Already six of those now imprisoned are reported to be m ill haalth, and it is alleged that some of them will not survive the treatement they are subjected to m prison.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1742, 17 January 1888, Page 2
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121THE MOONLIGHTERS Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1742, 17 January 1888, Page 2
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