St. Paul daily globe., 1885-05-31
THE IRISH BAILIFF.
What the Dublin Freeman's j JOurnal
Says About His Being Roasted.

says About HIS Being Roasted.
To the Editor of the Globe:
AprOpos of a recent controversy between
a morning paper and myself in reference to
Irish barbarian ignorance" arising from
all editorial comment in that paper upon an
alleged cruelty to a bailiff by some farmers
in Ireland, l send you leading article
taken from the Dublin Freeman's Journal
of the 18th inst, which will mitigate, to
some extent, the atrocious charge made by
my late antagonist, that an Irish bailiff
was burned at the stake" The legitimate
inference to be drawn from perrlsal of the
article is that said bailiff was barbarously
treated, if the report of the alleged occur
renee be true, but there is no justification
for drawing the far-fetched and remote
conclusion that the man was burned at the
stake, taking even the exaggerated cable
gram for basis. Respectfully,
ROGER VAIL.
We are frequently told that the Grow
bar Brigade" is an institution of the past,
and that Irish public men do an infnity of
harm by conjuring up horrible tales of
heartless evictions which, under a reformed
land law, are no longer possible in this
country. We refer our readers to-day to
the particulars which we publish Of two
the counties of Tipperary and Limerick.
At Killenaule. on Tuesday, seven children
were turned out of their wretched hoval
without, so far as the report indicates, any
substantial justification. Their parents
had collided in some way with the landlord,
and were committed to prison for assault.
Both the father and mother are said to have
lately exhibited signs of mental derange-
ment, and this fact, coupled with their i'm
prisonment had contributed to excite great
sympathy in the locality with their
young children. When the landlord
intimated his intention of dispOs-
sesSing them the greatest astonishment
was expressed, and on the appearance OF
the evictors on Monday the local clergy in
duced them to abandon the heartless act.
But on, Tuesday the landlord appeared with
ten policemen and two bailiffS and carried
his threat into execution, The hapless
children appeared in the town of Killenaule
in the evening, carrying some of their eff
fects and looking for shelter. The other
case is almost worse than the first. At the
New Pallas petty, sessions yesterday a
charge of ''taking forcible possession at
Carrickbeg, near Doom, was preferred
against Daniel and Eliza Ryan. A bailiff
was examined and deposed that the defend
ants were the children of Mrs. Mary
Ryan, whom he assisted in evicting on the
18th ult He swore that the mother was
but out of her holding while confined to bed;
that in compliance with the peremptory or
der of the sub-agent, who was present, the
bed with its dying occupant was put out in
the yard and the house nailed up. This evil
dence was corroborated by the sub-agent
himself, who admitted that he went down
to the place determined to get possession
under any circumstances" The charge
was dismissed for want of evidence. We
regret to have to notice in connection with
this subject the barbarous treatment to
which bailiff is said to have been sub
jected near Ballinaule on Monday night.
The wretched calling of the bailiff makes
him an obnoxious being to the poor people,
who have most reason to dread his pres
ence, but no condemnation could be strong
enough for the inhuman conduct which is
alleged to have been practiced on
the miserable bailiff Nynch) on Monday
night. It is to be hoped that the incl
dent is explicable by the fact that Lynch
was drunk on the occasion, and in that
way sustained the injuries from which he
suffers.