HORRIBLE OUTRAGE IN KILKENNY.
A New Ross telegram reports that a few nights ago an outrage was perpetrated at a place called Ballynock,about seven miles from there, in county Kilkenny, hy which,hut for the assistance of some neighbours, a whole family would have been burned to death. Late at night a number of men attacked the house of a man named John Murphy, calling him “ informer,” and asking that he should be put out. Failing to get admittance, they set fire to the thatched roof in several places. The inmates were afraid to leave the house. A number of persons ran to their assistance, and with difficulty rescued tho family, though the children were nearly suffocated. The rescuers were attacked with stones, hat the night was so dark they could see no one. The house was burned to the ground. Two brothers, named Saunders, were arrested hy the police.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2412, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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149HORRIBLE OUTRAGE IN KILKENNY. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2412, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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