DUBLIN RIOTS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 29, 9 November 1871, Page 3

DUBLIN RIOTS.

THE LATEST SCENES OF DISORDER—ATTACK ON THE POLICE. The Freeman's Journal publishes the following account of the serious riot which took place in Dublin on Sunday evening, Sept. 3rd :■ — As usual in such cases, it was extremely difficult to ascertain the exact particulars, and necessarily, on this account, police resources must be largely relied upon. However, so far as we can ascertain, the following appear to be the facts of the case : At about six o’clock Inspector Mitchell with six men of the D division, were patrolling Ellis’s Quay, when they were attacked by a crowd coming from the direction of Phoenix Park. The police allege they gave no provocation whatever, and that they were attacked with sticks and stones. They were compelled to fall back on the Bridgewell-lane station, pursued % the mob throwing stones. In the station was a large body of the police of the several divisions in reserve, and they sallied out at once. They were about GO strong, and endeavoured, as they best could to quell the riot. They were met by numbers of the crowd throwing stones. Some persons were arrested. This state of things was going on for some time, the police constantly sallying out, beingmet with a volley of stones, and arresting a couple of persons who were turning toward the station. The crowd exhibited the greatest daring, standing the charge of the police until within a few feet of them, swarming down beside the station and breaking its windows with volleys of stones. One incident deserves to be noticed. It is alleged by the police that from a public house in the neighbourhood an enormous bar of iron was flung at them. Our reporter was shown the bar in question at the Police Station. It weighs several pounds, and would inevitably have killed any unfortunate man on whose head it alighted. The riot did not subside until twelve persons were taken. Of those, two were woumh d by the batons of the police, one person received very severe injuries, the rest escaped without injury. The injuries to the police were, we regret to state, of a very severe and serious character The scene presented at Bridgewell-lane Police Station was of a very remarkable diameter. More than one of the prisoners was present with his head bound up, and exhibiting other signs of having received serious injuries ; but it was plain at a glance that the chief sufferers had been the police. The number of men whose heads were bandaged or faces “starred” with sticking plaster was quite appalling. At least twenty-four policemen have received injuries of a nature more or less serious, and an unfortunate man was lying on a stretcher, bleeding profusely, all but insensible, and suffering, it was said, k from a fractured skull.