CRUEL AND COWARDLY OUTRAGE.
Gilks Darot, the proems server at Castlegregory, County Kerry, whose car was cn t off by mx disguised ruffians, is seventy -two years of ng« and has only one arm. Two of the fellows held the old man's wife, while the four otheri held their victim, and one of them drew a razor and out the right ear clean off, and inflicted an ugly gash in thp throat. 'After the outrage the 6ld ' couple made their mndetothc police Imnack, where a doctor attended Uve poor old man, and while the woniul in the throat was being stitcher^ Darcy fainted,' and it was feared he tv»» deadv but amrnation returned. Unfwrtrfnately, np to the piesent th« police have been unable to trace r the perpdtratoVB of this cruel and cowahlly outrage, which ia a disgrace to any Christian country.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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142CRUEL AND COWARDLY OUTRAGE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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