The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-05-08 00:00:00

Pantpshirc.

itgal.

ABDUCTION OF PROTESTANT
CHILDREN.

An extraordinary cam of abduction hisa been made
public in the Court of Queen's Bosch at Dublin, of
%Heti the following sre the herds :
Eight month...go a sailor named Sherwood, a Pretest aotr
died iii Ireland. iv left widow and ses-rn children.
hut had made no pu,vision for their support. Mrs.
Sherwood be‘tirred herself to obtain some assistance for
her numerous family, and it appears that she neceede44
without much trouble, in getting all the preen children
ad her lands at once. It is hard work in Ireland to get
a sitgle child into a ACIIOOI or asylum ; but no sooner
had Sherwood applied to a charitable lady in Dale-
lin than Deem admissions were given her entitling he
derma infanta to useintenance and education in a "Pro-
testant Orphanage" institution in the county of Galway.
The offer molted on eseelltem our, and the cbildree werw
secordingly taken to the Midland Great Western termi-
nus in Dublin. and there booked lon the place of their
destination. The affair seemed not only arranged but
absolutely accomplisle-d. The little passengers seem
lidted up in • carriage, the guard hat undertaken to
!Oak after thew on the road, and the nialivon of the Pre
testant Orptericip• was to meet them at Ombra . Pims
hours' run by railway WWI all that intervesed
theist and their refer, but the interval pierwest king
enough for • serious slip.
In the carnage with the childrin were two mai.
named il'ituhins sod O'Connor, who entered into cur-
versation with their young fellow-peasengens. and 800.
infuriated themselves of their story ll'itobin.,, an
attarney'g clerk by profeesion, wio, massagers' with •
, rival " institution. for tin: benefit of Roman Catholics,
and looked, therefore, with a natural jealomey ea the
rcinforconient which the Galway esteblialimene was
shotet to receive. O'Connor had not, as far as we laans„
any sympathies beyond she.. which his oligion supplied,
tut.: those were strung enough to make him a most jeal-
ous ally. la short, Witohing and O'Connor determined
to upset ifrs. Sherwood's scheme for the eetablish-
' uncut of her ohlWren, and intercept their arrival at
, the Protestant inatltution. Nor did they stop at mere
intentions; for when the train arrived at Galway, and
I the matron of the Orphanage preisent,d herself on the
pletform to receive her charge, they boldly showed
tigict fu the prim, and positively succeeded in ceryiag
I off four of the infants—three buys sad a girl—whom
they put into a covered car and took away with them.
It seems to be aftertained that, on the 22nd et March,
these children were taken by M'ltrobins to Dublin, but
from that time to this all trace of them has been lost.
An application was then made to the Court of Queen's
Bench for an attachment against the offenders • but up
I to the present time they seemed to have 01K1114
; it is alleged on belied of these kidnappers that the
children
_profaned themselves Roman Catholics, and
intimated that they were going to Galway against their
will ; though it is hied to conceive bow such Infanta
could have discriminated between the rival' cesumunions,
and still harder to understand how Messrs. WRobits
I and O'Connor amid have held themselves, vititled to
I wake the Adair their own.