A SEVERE SENTENCE.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 131, 12 January 1877, Page 3

A SEVERE SENTENCE.

Mr Justice Keogh, administered a very severe lesson recently 'tb* tiie roughs of Dublin,* especially those, : of the -Fenian type. The playing, of bands, through the streets on Sunday evenings, followed by- mobs, during -.the;' hours;' of Divine worship, has been bitterly, com-, plained of as a serious 'annoyance'; arid " the attempts .of t'le .policeto abate the. : nuisance .have, led -to niany collisions with the refractory and lawless portion of the populace: '-On Sunday. evening, tho 13th of August, a, band was passing a Roman Catholic Church in Thomas-street* during--: the *>■ hours-:? of of worshio.; . A constable .cai led,, upon the bandmaster to" stop playing, but was told r tti " stand r back," 'and was 'struck on the mouth, -with, -the, bandmaster's staff, one of his teeth being broken. He attempted to arrest his assailant; " j but '-""-Was knocked- down -'and ducked with -great violen ce. . ; , • Two ,o ther . constables .came up to help, him ; but met with the same usage!, the: mob being called upon to ''wire in," and* obey--ing, the.pqmmand.bynthrowing ( stones, J and bricks at the constables," and also] ••at* two respectable residents -in thel neighbourhood who went to their assistance. The constables -behaved with great .-spirit} and, , in. .-spite of the fierce, attack upon them 'by a hostile._crowd, succeeded, withy- the, aid -of two more. Colleagues, in arresting four of the "rioters, including the bandmaster. 'When; t.he-'casefcam.e^.on- for trial two -of, the prisoners pleaded guilty. The other two were convicted. Mr Justice ; Eeogli cbm'riien'^ ;.taro!ly and savage nature'" of' the attack, arid eulbgized' the conduct 6f the two, civilians who went to their assistance, "He sentenced n the four' p'riso- ; ners to five years' penal servitude. The I .severity of\the r, punishment'causetl%re'at ; sensation' imCburt.^Times.-'b ;,. o>/r