A RELEASED FENIAN.
Received September 28, 8.35 a.m,
LONDON, September 27,
Mr John Dillon, Nationalist member for East May, and thousands of Manchester Irishmen, welcomed Patrick Lennon, who was convicted in February.. 1868, and sentenced to death, for his share in the Fenian outrages, on his release from prison.
In September, 1867, an attack was made in open day on a police van in Manchester; the officer in charge was killed, and the prisoners, who were suspected Fenians, were releas - ed. A number of arrests were made in connection with the affair, and three of th? prisoners were convicted and executed. Lstmon was also convictei, but his sentence was commuted to imprisonment.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9607, 29 September 1909, Page 5
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112A RELEASED FENIAN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9607, 29 September 1909, Page 5
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