AN IRISH VENDETTA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8456, 5 June 1907, Page 3

AN IRISH VENDETTA.

The hillside overlooking the beautiful valley of Glenariffe, Antrim, has been the scene of a terrible-fam-ily vendetta, which resulted in the death of or.e of the combatants, and serious injury to many others. There had been bad blood between two families named McAuley and Delargey for a long period, and one Sunday morning on the way home from Mass a youhjg: irtan of the McAuley clan and another of the Delargeys had a fight. About six o'clock in the evening, as if by common consent, there was a strong muster of both families' supporters near a lime kiln. The story of what followed was told to the coroner's jury by Daniel McAuley, a brother of the man who was killed. He said that on that evening he saw people running from the opposite side of the glen\ He. followed them, and when he came to the end cf the road leading to the lime kiln he saw a crowd standing, among whom were Alexander Delargey, hia wife and four sons. Delargey had a stick, his wife had a hammer, and one of his sons had a coal sledge-hammer. He heard someone say that the two young men who fought in the morning should finish it. Just then John McAuley was struck with a stick, and a man aimed a blow at him with a coal hammer. There wa3 then a regular fight with hammers, sticks and stones. Witness was trying to defend his brother John and got several knocks about the head. A few minutes later he saw his other brother, James, lying in the road, and one of the Delargeys hit him on the temple with a stone . The shout was raised that a man was killed, and the fight was stopped. There was a pathetic scene when thp wife of the dying man hurried to the spot. His head was pillowed on a brother's knee, and he was surrounded by his sons. The woman picked up the blood-stained stone, but the sledge-hammer with which the man was felled could not be found. One of the Delargeys was dangerously injured, and one of the McAuleys had several ribs broken. Nearly all the other combatants had several injuries. Charles and Alexander Delargey were charged with the murder of James McAuley and remanded. Both appeared in court heavily bandaged.