DANCE SEQUEL

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1929, Page 6

DANCE SEQUEL

PARTY OF GIRLS ASSAULTED. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON. October 11. A party of twenty-four pretty Derry colleens, who were returning to Londonderry, after a dance at Fort Leenan, were victims of an astonishing outrage at the hands of some fourteen armed, masked men near Clomany. The twenty-four girls had been the guests of the Royal Artillery at Fort Leenan. The hosts provided a .motor omnibus to take them home in the small hours of the morning. The masked men stopped the omnibus when it was helfway on its journey at the point of the revolver. They then forced the girls tp submit to. being driven to lonely Isle of Dough, which is notorious as a haunt of potneen makers. Here the girls were compelled to take off their shoes, then stockings, and their ball dresses, which were gathered in a heap. Petrol was then poured on this clothing, and it was set- ablaze, ’ G,. ......

The girls and the soldier who acted as their driver were then lined up, and were told that they were going to be shot, but the masked men finally turned the girls adrift on the lonely countryside to find their way into Londonderry without their shoes, their stockings and their coats.