A Shocking Spectacle.
Agshtly picture of the results of Land League terrorism is supplied by a summary of the Proceedings before the Investigator of Claims for Compensation under the Crime Prevention Act, at Tralee. The scene, it is said, was enough to wring the hardest heart. There was the man with his ears cut off, because he -was faithful m the discharge of his duty. There was the man m the prime of life, with his hair prematurely Blanched and his arm looped off. There -was the aged man without his legs, brdnghtinto Court upon the back of his Boni and placed with difficulty upon the table to tell his tale of woe.- There were others, pierced with bullets, whose lives were saved "by the interposition of Providence. Sad, almost incredible •pectacle m a civilized land 1
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 40, 12 January 1883, Page 3
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137A Shocking Spectacle. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 40, 12 January 1883, Page 3
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