The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-23
HOW REDMOND o'HAN1oN MET HIS MATCH.

"Never heard Of Redmond O'Hanlon ?
Sure, there never was such great highway
man. Your Dick Turpins and Claude Du-
walls wasn't patch upon him."
My companion was riding with me on Il
jauntins- car in the neighborhood of Dublin.
He was an entertaining and very intelligent
and well-informed specimen of the native
character and l desired to draw him out.
He was nothing 10th; SO, in reply to a re-
mark in that direction, he continued:
"Of course, then, you don't know how he
onst met his match I'll tell it to you.
~ don't rightly know" he proceeded,
GO in which county in Ireland Redmond
O'Hanlon performed his pranks, because
he's claimed as a native of every one of
them. Even Homer's birthplace hasn't
given rise to half as many disputes as his.
But all accounts concur in representing him
as fine, sthrapping, gintlemanly fellow,
and n devoted admirer- of the ladies-in-
deed, it'd be very hard to find the Irishman
that isn't-and, moreover, great friend to
the poor as you'll admit when tell you
that his demands for cash were only made
on persons who could well afford to meet
them, and that lie particularly delighted in
forcing contributions from those who had
the reputation of being hard and gripping to
their tinants.
"There was one rich landlord of this
class that Redmond never lost an opportu-
nifty of taxing-for that was the polite name
he gave to his own robberies. Once every
quarter, this gintleman or one of his ser
vants-sometimes more than one-used to
take a journey of six or seven miles to col
lect his rints, and, as regular as clockwork,
there was Redmond OHanlon, with some
stout companions, if necessary, to stop the
cOllecther, and receive the money from him
as he returned home. Every means was
taken to elude him, but to no purpose for
Redmond had spies every where, and always
received early intelligence of any journeys
that To ha upHartalan
tcr-day, when the gintleman's servants
asked him about going afther the rints, he
swore at O'Hanlon, and said he didn't see
the use of collecting money to hand over to
him, and that for the future he wouldn't
collect it at all, but'd let the tinants have
the benefit of it.
"Now, this gintlcman had on his estate
boy called Jerry the FOOL who had the
run OF the house and made fun for the fami-
ly. Jerry was known to have very great
idea of his own shrewdness and when he
heard what the masther said, he immajiate-
ly asked to be allowed to go afther the rints
for onst, as he said he knew he should be
able to bring them safe home. Of coorse he
was only laughed at; but when he represented
that, at all evints, no harm could come from
thrying, as he couldn't do worse than those
who had gone before him, the masther
agreed to humor him.
I" AS soon as Jerry had got permission, he
made such preparations as he thought ne
cessary, selected the worse horse he could
find in the stable-an old hack, half blind
and more than three-quarters lame-and
started ON his journey. Nothing remarkable
occurred as he was going. He collected a
considerable sum of money, carefully dis
posed it about his person, and was quietly
jogging home in the evening, on the old
hack, when, just as he entered long lane
with high hedges on each side, a tall, fine
looking man, on a handsome roam mare,
rode up to him.
"God save you, my man says the gin
tleman.
"tGod save your honor kindly' replied
Jerry.