A Victim of the Irish Agitation.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 438, 18 January 1890, Page 2

A Victim of the Irish Agitation.

An appeal is made to the public on behalf' of M’ss Creagh, one of the numerous victims of the agitation in Ireland, Miss. Creagh was driving to church at Quin, county Clare, with her brother on Sunday,, the 10th March, when they were fired at from behind a hedge, and both wounded in the head and face. The sight of one of Miss Creagh’s eyes has been permanently injured, that of the other having been, greatly impaired by cataract. She has. been put to very great expense tlm.ngh being compelled to go to Dublin for special medical treatment, under which she re--tnained for many weeks, unfortunately without any good results ; the cost of this falls very heavily on her, while the law is such that though compensation could havo been claimed for malicious injury had herhorse’s eyo been destroyed, she can get none for the loss of her own. Miss Creagh is an artist, and her work Ims been put an. end to by the dastardly ruffians who attempted to minder her. She lives at Carrahan, co. Clare, with her. brother, a small landowner and a most quiet, kindly, and unassuming man, whose means havebeen greatly crippled through the agitation, and who is, therefore, ill able to afford to help his sister to meet the heavy expenses thrown on her owing, to this outrage. He evicted a tenant in 1872. for nonpayment of rent, and has ever since been an object of undying hatred. Three deliberate attempts to murder him have been made. The first was an the 25th November, 1872, on which occasion the gun hurst in the would-be assassin’s hand, blowing off a finger, which was picked up on the spot. Further attempts were made to murder Mr Cieagh on the 12th Feb-? ruary, 1880, and on the 1 Oth March this year. He is under constant police protection—that ie to say, a temporary police station has been established close to his house, from which ounslables follow him. whenever he goes out. The feeling against him is so strong that the name of a priest who has had the courage to denounce this brutal murder has twice been received with hooting and groans of execration by a crowd near Quin. Co’onel Turner, Ennis, Ireland, will gladly receive and acknowledge any subscriptions.— Extract from “The News of the World,” London, Aug. 18,1889.