AN IRISH RIOT.
escorts stoned. 26 PERSONS INJTXRED. LONDON, June 29. Thirteen out of seventeen defendants charged at Birr (a town of King's County, better known as Parsonstown) with removing cattle which were grazing on a farm, were ordered to find bail amounting to £10, and they defiantly refused to do so. They were then sent to Tullamore Gaol for two months.
A crowd of sympathisers stoned 150 police who were escorting the prisoners, and the police were compelled to charge the mob.
Twenty - six persons, including six policemen, were injured.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 5
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91AN IRISH RIOT. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 5
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