AN IRISH AMAZON.

Shannon News, 25 May 1926, Page 3

AN IRISH AMAZON.

“A trenchant letter,” was the comment of Judge Taylor at Keswick County Court recently, after reading what sounded like a declaration of war written by a young war widow Mrs R. Carr, who r was left occupation of Lanscale View, Keswick, by her aunt, Miss Hamilton, last year. Messrs J. H. Billings and Co., of Manchester, now applied for possession of the house which they bought with the Greta pencil works at Keswick. They gave tenant, Hamilton, notice last. year. In reply to a request for the key, Mrs Carr wrote to Mr H. J. pillinge.— “I am Irish and like a good fight, so let’s get on with it. (Laughter.) If you come to get the key I shall certainly smash your head. (Laughter.) When I was a confectioner the landlord came into the bakehouse, and although he avus Gft and brazen as brass, I said: ‘Get out of this or I will smash your head.* He went smart, as I had an iron rake in my hand. (Laughter). I have been told twice I will kill someone. (Laughter) I once hit an Irishman as hard as ever I could with a heavy poker because he teased me. (Laughter.) “When I was 14 I fought turn boys and won, and they were bigger than I. (Laughter). If you wish to prosper do not make an enemy of me. A gentleman sent me a solicitor’s letter and died four months after. :A gentleman I disagreed with had a son with a swanky motor bike and I was so wild I wished he would fall off and smash the thing to atoms. (Laughter). That happened two or three weeks later. (Laughter.)

Mrs Carr, when asked by the judge if she were Irish, said: ‘My father says I’m not, but I say I am— I have never been to Ireland.” (Laughter.) An order was made for possession in three months. . -