The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-11-08
POLICE ESPIONAGE IN IRELAND.
From Harper's Weekly.l

1t was in Tipperary few months
ago thai a popular pastor, Father
Humphreys, was espied on the street
in a predicament familiar to members
of parliament from Ireiand-that of
being "shadowed."
Here we understand that word TO
mean a following by stealth on the
part OF detective; but ia ireland the
direct meaning is applied. The dctec-
tiVes are policemen, aud they stick as
close to their victim as his shadow
Good Father Humphreys canuo, leave
his door without being Joined by an
armed policeman, who walks close by
his side, Keeping stap, whilst another
member of the royal constabularv
stalks silently behini. lie goes into a
parishioncr's house; his shadows wait
by the door. He enleIs a shop; the
shadows follow, and listen eagerly &, r
some word which may jus,iiy The Iuca'
magistrate, according To the frightinl
perversion of justice which oh. ains, in
C apping the father in jail. II one of
ms shadows can entrap him thus, or,
still better, ii he can be goaded to a
push or josle which can be consider
Ell an lnsnlt to The sacred profession of
constabnlarism, he will be promptl,
"nstled into the brideweIl. Meantime
his friends are watching him from IA
window, vastly amused, it is to be
feared, at lis plain disgust; tor when
he stops to look IN window, the
"b0bbies' stop short; when he moves
on, they step out. Patrick OBrien,
M. L. TOR Monaghan, is particularly
delighted. perhaps because / ; has been
through 80 many scraues with these
same well-set up fellows, where blood
flowed aud citizens were killed out
night that the annoyance OF his shadow
cd and revered friend seems by con =
trast JOKE. lie opens the window
holding small square box under his
arm. A little swapping DOise sends q
| qulver OF alarm through dozen police
men gathereu before the house, and he
has baggcd three birds at one shot from
his Kodak.
The architect of New Tipperary j.
not SO cautious as Father Hrmphrcys.
tie is a big man, and does not relish
stepping aside into the mud when
crossing the street because three cUu :
stables stand 30 that the narrow cross.
ing is blocked. lie brushes through
The group, is reported as violent, ant
lodged in Jail at hard labor, JUS
TO teach him that he must not build
towns i'll Ireland unless the landlord
ark hIm to do sol HIS release is tha
result OF another amusing complication
calculated, like all the rest, to educate
the Irish to scoru Of magistrates ant
lawgivers, from the queen down. lii
case is teIegraphed at once to West
muster, and The Irish members vow
vengeance. The appropriations bill i
GU its way back 10 The house of lords
whence il will soon reach the queen
hands. All the members have mad
their engagements for the vacation, AN,
no cloud appears on the horizon. Til
f'arnelliiies inform the official VIII
lakes The bill on its devious cours
that they propose 10 delay it. Parlia
ment will have to sit Two days more,
: MT three. The official turns pale al
wrings his hands. lie sees the wrat
of his snpcriors, and-oh, heavens !
in the dim perspective, the anger {
tho queen, compelled to postpone tf
:. retreat 10 her beloved BaImoral. VIII,
DO they want? San order TO the tor
:, judiciary in Ireland TO lei Mr. WilliaI
:, Till out of jail" The official heaves
:, , sigh OF happiness, tor what TO him
the release of one man more or less
=, that remote. detesied quarter OF Il
= empire called Ireland? The bargain
= struck, and next morning the b
= architect of New Tipperary smokes h
y cigar triumphantly in the faces Of
captors and judges.