ROWDYISM AT THE GREENSTONE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 521, 24 June 1869, Page 2

ROWDYISM AT THE GREENSTONE.

We learn through the columns of the W. C. Times that further rowdyism has taken place at the Greenstone, but it is satisfactory to say that at least two of the offenders are in custody. The row commenced by some druuken men in the street calling out that they were Irishmen and wishing to see the face of an Orangeman. Sergeant Blane, in charge of the Greenstone station, spoke to the men, when one of them made a blow at him, and the sergeant threw him down. The two then commenced shouting for the police, swearing that they would kill them. Sergeant Blane collared his man, when the latter called out, "Is there no Irishmen here ?" The other man, the mate of the one Sergeant Blane had seized, replied that there was, and at the same time picked up a stone, and struck the sergeant a severe blow on the face with it. At this time, fortunately, Constables Bisset and O'Malley came up, and the man who had just struck the sergeant with the stone, took up another, and was about to inflict another blow, when he was knocked down by Constable O'Malley. A large number of people had gathered round by this time, and the prisoners called on them to rescue them. No one, however, actively interfered, and the prisoners, after making a desperate resistance, during which the clothes of the police were torn literally from their backs, were safely lodged in the lock-up. Their names are John Cavanagh and Patrick Skene. Later information from the Greenstone states that the police are " wanting " others for their conduct of that night, which is represented as being abominable, parading up and down the streets yelling, cursing, and hooting, to the terror of the respectable inhabitants. Patrick Skene aud John Cavanagh were brought before Mr Warden Keogh, and a savage assault -having been clearly proved against them, they wero each sentenced to three months' imprisonment. There was a third man charged, but ho had been admitted to bail until Mr Warden Keogh's regular court day.