BOYCOTTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2280, 19 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOYCOTTING.

Mr Michael Coffey, of Gurteen County - Sligo, who has been boycotted, relates his experience in a letter to the Irish Times. He is a fanner and a shopkeeper, and sa.ys he has been in purgatory since April last for redeeming a farm on which he advanced money, and from which the tenant had been evicted. The day after he got possession threatening notices against him, containing skeletons, guns, coffin.s, graves, &c, were posted about, tiud notwithstanding his request that his case should bo submitted to Mr Parnell's own adjudication, the boycotting process proceeded, and iu consequence of this a large quantity of goods in stock rotted away for want of buyers. Male and female detectives were sent to his shop day and night, and no one dared enter. Tho servant bo> was forced to leave, the maid was kidnapped when at chapel, and the worktnsui was seized by meu armed •with cudgels, v/ho took him before the National League branch, which compelled him to leave his employment. Not even Mr Coffey's .sisters or other relatives could enter the house to pay their accounts, being , afraid of being seen going in. His three children, attending fclie National schools were groaned at and hooted, and turned out of school by the master lest anything, he said should happen to them.