THE KELLYS’ FATHER
In the spring of ItHS two brothers, the Codys.” and a man named Kelly were constantly stealing sheep from a farmer named Gorin in, in the mountains of Slecvc-na-mong, County Tipperary, their native place. Gorman at last lay iu ambush one night, watching the sheep, and was not long when he saw the two Codys and Kelly taking three of them. He followed, and they seeing they wore detected, and that it would be hanging or transportation for them, one of the Codys shot Gorman. Two days after the murder the three of them Were arrested on suspicion ; hut the Government not having sufficient evidence to convict them, offered-a reward and a free pardon to any of the accomplices who would turn Queen’s evidence against the other two. Kelly did so, and on his evid-
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Dunstan Times, Issue 954, 30 July 1880, Page 3
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138THE KELLYS’ FATHER Dunstan Times, Issue 954, 30 July 1880, Page 3
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