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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 October 1907, Page 5

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MORE CATTLE DRIVING. / BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. j ! London, October ",'J. 'The first cattle : driving raid' in 'Wcstmojth led to sovon arrests. Writing in tlie " Express," Mr. Percival Phillips describes tho following caso of boycott arising out of a cattle raid:— Probably' the most notable caso in Roscommon is that of Mr. Gcorgo A. Kelly, nil Irish barrister, and a. member of the Connaught circuit. Mr. Kelly's only, offence is that ho ordered fjome cattle-raiders who appeared before him» as one' of the . Magistrates at Hillstreet Petty Sessions,. to give bail or go' to prison. J. lie Magistrates were divided, and. Mr. Kelly was one of tho majority. " Since tlion Mr. Kelly has been subjected to an open boycott. His farm hands and all other employees left him, save his old housekeeper, who is deaf, and:cannot hear threats. No man will drive him anywhere. Quito recently Mr. Kelly left his residence, near Car-rick-on-Shaiinori, to take a train at Drumsna tho nearest station on the Mullingar-SHgo line' Ho had to cart his luggage to the station himself, a distance of six miles. Then, as no one would look after ,his horse, ho drove back from Drumsna to his residenco. After putting.up the -horse, he walked back to Drumsna; thus riiaking a journey of eighteen miles instead of SIX. - ' ,

During these trips he was hooted and jeered by a crowd of "mahills" working in a bog near tho road. A "maliill" is a man who volunteers to do the work of. a neighbour who is in prison for a political offence. Theso "innhills" were working for the men who had been before the Hillstreet Magistrates, and who preferred to go to gaol instead of giving bail. .1 ho boycott has actually spread to such an extent that the servants of sovoral landowners living in the neighbourhood have warned their employers that they will leave if Mr: Kellv is even invited to dinner. . 1