A DUBLIN SCANDAL.
New York, August 28.— Dublin is still i ringing with a scandal in high life, which resulted yesterday in severe thrashings fcaing administered to two prominent gentlemen by John Pollock, who is himself a magistrate and the owner of large landed estates. After a series of quarrels, Hon. Mrs Pollock recently loft her husband's home at Lesmary and went to Scotland. The men whom Pollock suspected were Captain Barry, of the Royal Horee Artillery, and John Albert Blakenay, DeputyLieutenant for the County of Gaiway, and an extensive land owner in that county. Yesterday Pollock bunted up these men in the streets of Dublin, and deliberately thrashed both of them. Neither of them made any resistance beyond trying to escape by flight. Pollock is still in Dublin offering to give his victims satisfaction, and declares he will soon institute proceedings for a divorce.
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 121, 26 September 1885, Page 4
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145A DUBLIN SCANDAL. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 121, 26 September 1885, Page 4
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