Riots at an Election.
beuteb's.telkgbams. - London^ July 18. At the Wexford election many of -the O'Connor Don's supporters were insulted by supporters of his opponent, and consequently abstained from voting. ', Stonethrowing was general, several of 1 the police being wounded thereby;— the O'Connor Don himself being struck.'. The police dispersed the throwers with fixed bayonets, and a desperate "riot ensued, the mob being resolute.- Thirty of them wore bayoneted;.' the' onlookeis meanwhile pouring- showers of stones on, the constables, wounding many. . M essri. Healy and Sexton, having promised to protect the town and the O'< 'onnor Don, the police withdrew to their barrack*. Mr. William ; Redmond; who was) the opponent of O'Connor Don for the , seat of Wexford, was returned by a- majority of one, hunched and eighty-one.' '
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 19, 21 July 1883, Page 2
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