The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-03-11
JUSTICE IN IRELAND.
Barbarous Treatment Il Suffering
Fishermen.
rHEY RESISTED THE EvIoTo2e,
And a. . Result We're Obliged 10
walk Thirteen MtIrs Through .
Blinding storm for the Purpose Of
Appearing at Court.

Hitnding storm TOT the Purpose Of
Appearing ~ Court.
LONDON, March II. - A story has
reached here that has caused, many ex-
pressions Of deep indignation by the En-
lish rs. To the westward Of County
Mayo, leland, there lies in the Atlantic
small patch Of land known as Glare
island. The inhabitants are mostly fish
ermen, and are miserably poor. A num-
Der Of them ran into debt, and their cred
itors took legal proceedings against
them, and sent bailiffs to seize the few
cattle owned by the debtors to satisfy
the claims against them.
The islanders resisted the bailiffs. and
As result eighty Of them were sum-
moned to answer at Louisburg, the
nearest town on the mainland in County
Mayo, for resisting the officers of the
law. The eighty islanders obeyed the
summons and presented themselves be-
fore the magistrate. They all appeared
to be IN starving condition, and their
| thin garments afforded them little pro-
lection against the Indictment weather.
Fell by tho Roadside.
The magistrate listened to the testi-
! mony of the bailiifs, and then calmly
ordered the further hearing Of the case
be had the next day at the court house
in Westport, thirteen miles distant. To
reach Westport in time for the hearing
1t was necessary for the islanders to
start that night. They had no money
| to pay for conveyAnces, and were COM
PEELED to walk the entire distance over
road that Is none too good In hne
weather. That night binding snow
storm set In. The road runs alongside
| the ocean, and the poor people stumbling
along in the darkness Were exposed to
| the full fury Of singing gale that
swept inland from the sea.
Many of the poorly clad islanders,
weakened BY their long absence from
nourishing food, fell by the wayside, UNI
| able to proceed further, and would have
persisted had it hot been for the kind
hearted villagers along the route.
Tho Magistrates Indignant.
OF the women in the party not single
one had strength enough to drag her
! weary limbs to Westport. The men
\ who reached the town ct once proceeded
10 the court house and presented them
selves before the magistrates there sit
/ ting to hear the case. Many of the
islanders were almost completely ex-
hausted by their long and terrible jour
ney md all Of them were famished and
! half frozen.
When the magistrates learned that
all the persons summoned were not pres
emit they were inceised at what they
i were pleased to term disrespect of the
law They held forth at great length
upon the strong arm of the law, and how
all, rich and poor alike, were amenable
to its provisions.
Then they spoke Of the great good.
ness of the crown, how It tempered
justice with mercy, and after dwelling
Il upon this subject, to the painful edifica
ton of the shivering wretches befors
them, they announced that as the de.
PENDANTS had pleaded guilty to the
charge against them the crown would
extend its clemency to them. The couri
then ordered that the men be liberated
upon giving bail for their good be
havi0r.
4 The dispatch does not state whether
the bail demanded was furnished, bu
as the islanders were not known ii
Westport, and as they have nothing o.
value of their own, the probabilities ar
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