IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3523, 9 July 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

MURDER VVITNESS KIDNAPPISD.

Received 9.30.

LONDON, July 7.

Sangeant O’Reilly, the principal witness in the murder trial at. Armagh following a policexnan’s death, was kidnapped from the street, search failing to disclose his whereabouts. I .The Waterford Assizes have been abandoned, as the jury did not attend Owing to threats of violence.

TERROR—S'I‘RIC-KEN IRISI-Il\IEN\

AFRAID TO ACT AS JURORS.

LONDON, July 7.

, At’ the Waterford Assizes, Judge Gibson descanted bitterly when nine [jurors appeared out of seventy-eight ’:‘ulnmoued, because they had received llliotice ‘threutc-nirlg that their lives, lproperty, women and children would |not: be protected in futurro "by fihe law. “It makee my blood run <3o]d,”. 's':ni(] luclge Gibson. “It: Lu, horribfe I that any Irishman should be so weak. ,'J.‘he prisoners will remain in custody. [’l‘}m guilty will not go unpunished.” ‘l The judge defined the jurors’ default ms at crime against God and man, and ‘fined ouch grand juror £IOO, special i jurors £25, and petty jurors £lO. There twero also 100 petty jurors fined in the County Court. i The Irish Times declares that the \V:lterf«ord fines mark the beginning nf the and of 3, clla.ptel' in Irish hisfury. It states that jurors have the choice of facing the {imposition of large fines or_ the vengeance of an organiszrtion which hits hard, hits surely and keeps whole provinces in the servitude of four. -“ I<‘reeman’s Journal quotes Cardinal Logue as stating that the Pope gym. patfiised with Ireland ’s national aspiratino. but he added that the Pontifr acclared they would never attain I‘uenl rthroug‘h crime, bloodshed or connmat, ‘e_t.h:lt brought God’s curse on them.