AN EVICTION FIGHT.
encounter between constabulary AND. PEOPLE.
By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. * ■ ■ LONDON, April 28, Thera was severe fighting at an eviction at Dursey, an island, off the coast of Cork. Healy, tho holder of four farms, was four years in arrears with his ’' - rent, which waa annually £-195. Two hundred constabulary, lauding, * were received by all tho" people of the island with volleys of stones, „ Hand-to-hand fighting ensued. The police used their batons and the butt ends of their rifles, and, evicted Healy, his wife and son, his The eviction was. carried out in u > son’s wife and two children, torrents of rain.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1442, 1 May 1905, Page 2
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105AN EVICTION FIGHT. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1442, 1 May 1905, Page 2
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