THE FIRST JUDGE LYNCH.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 20, 20 October 1883, Page 3

THE FIRST JUDGE LYNCH.

It is said by some veracious authorities whose names I have forgotten because I never knew them, th it on the ancient council books of Galway, Ireland, it is duly recorded that in the year of our Lord 1493 11 James Lynch, Mayor of Gal way, hang »<1 his own '•on out of the window for defrauding and killing' strange)*-, \\illn»ni maibhal or common kw, to sho,% <t ifo<»d example to po-tenty." If .se. m-., by the chronicle, tli.it .\< (Ul! g Lyii"li had been sent to Spain by his father, the Mayoi. t<> purchase a cargo of the wine t.iat btteih logwood and sting >th lik ' m-i-lder w.i.-n it giveth its dye colour aright in the eu| . But the young map wast, d his euhsunce in riotous living, and faied .sumptuously three times u d.ij' and four (.r live time u night, and spent all his money at the bar and in the f.iio room, befi.i, h bou»!<t hi« cargo. However, lijm »atm» wn< » ' ''. and he loid^d liis ship on u shoit cicdi'. 80,00, and 90 days. 16 ofi". and sii! d joyon-ly for liomt', int 'ndiiii; to he il tbisl.ite and bay nothing to Im l'.ith>-r aln> it the paper. But the e/»;dit man '»)' the coJietTii didn't exactly like the lo,'U oi tilings, and sent his nephew alorij; to coiled th" money in Gal way. Seeing that the nephew's presence would probable cmusc a coolness in the fami'y circle as soon ; s he presented hi» statement, youn^ Lynch "exppditt'd" matters by to^sin^ th*; Spaniard into the loud sounding fi»\i, nnd llien BJiiied joyoufily on in an ever widening moral hoiizon and under on intellectual Hky that w.h iiirinitely clt>udle-s. But one of the sailors .some lime aftorwaid lay di»wn to die. and when h« was positively iib-^invil that he could not po^ibly live lung enough to lie bunged tor his share in the transaction, told .Mayor Lynch how hi 1 * son had killed tliu Spaniard. Tried before his own father, th<* \oung merchant was cons'icti d ;uid fcutciieed to bo hanged. The family und fii.Midviolentlv prcicnttd the <3\pcution, uhereupon the M yny look I»M son upstair-, f.isteued n to tlie wall, with hi. own liandrt iidjtisti'il (li«- noost* about the yoimy man's iu<-k, pushyd him out of a window nvor!ookin'4 the public street, juid there liti'ig.-d him in .i iiiimuci and !<n r mi^oms let forth in ihf ru on I, NS li. u v \ i yju

talk about Lynch law. think of John Fitz fephons Lynch, Mivor of Gilw.iv, who tiled the first caveat for an invention icenerally supposed to be American.— R, L. Bnrdette, in Philadelphia Times.