How Sir OBrien got His New Suit.
The * Montreal Witness ' just received contains a statement made by a John Ford, formerly, warder in Tullamore Gaol, who has arrived in Canada, as ,to the circum- ' stances under which Mr William OBrien obtained his suite of Blarney tweed in gaol. Ford says he, , in conjunction/ with the parish priest, tetegraphed to Dublin for / the'suiVwhich Ford donned, together with [an ulster. 'He wenHnto the gaol, obtained the key , and entered Miv, O'Brien's -.ce11, ; i where he undressed himself "quickly,' gave -the -clothes to'*' Mr O'Brien v then;, putting. on his ulster over his' underclothes,' he "made ,bis- way, J.outj again, .carefully!, looking up "every thing, ]and' reached^ the' i priest's ? house VibHout^a^soul khowirig/of ,the,\affair.V, <F t ord t saidi, healeft/, the^gaol . because. tHe prison authorities-wislied to transfer him to'Derry. .4 , ,>' s • ■, \
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 303, 29 September 1888, Page 5
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138How Sir O'Brien got His New Suit. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 303, 29 September 1888, Page 5
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