HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN IRELAND. A Boy Tarred and Burned Alive.
A coKRKsroNDKNT gives an account of a horiible occurrence which took place at Mona&tercvan in connection with the rejoicings of the Nationalists over the release of Father Ryan. He s lys that after presenting Father Kyan with an address, they had a bonfire lighted in his honour in a gaiden in the main street. While the bonfire was blazing and an effigy of Judge Boyd was being consumed some one in the large crowd that nad collected pulled out a vound iron hoop that had been stuffed with straw and was dripping with boiling tar and paraffin, which fell over a lad of 14, knocking him down, and the boiling tar ran over his head, and down his throat. The excited crowd, thinking the boy one of the fallen limbs that had fallen off the effigy, kicked and jumped on him, yelling all the while with demoniac glee. The boy succumbed a few hours after he was rescued.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 5
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168HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN IRELAND. A Boy Tarred and Burned Alive. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 5
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