The Irish standard., 1898-01-15

lilat person had not given up all the
arms which he had. his house was
burnt and his furniture and every other
property it contained. If it was thought
that any district had not given I'D all
its arms. a party was sent out to collect
them, and in the execution of this order
thirty houses were sometimes burnt
down in single night. These facts,
and others of a similar description, were
Concluded Lord Moira) notorious
in Ireland
Subsequent to the conviction of Mr..
Peter Finnerty, his paper narrated some
horrible atrocities that had been COM
mltted i'll Westmeath, and which would
never have been published or heard of
had it not been for the conduct of the
grand jury of that county in voting a
sum oil i2GG to be laid out in gold
and silver medals, and distributed
amongst the non-commissioned officers
Oh the Wicklow militia as the reward nf
thoir loyalty in burning the houses and
niassacring the persons of the peasantry
IN that county. AS the Press put it
ne survivors are to be assessed to
pay the destroyers Of their murdered
Kindred and to hold out encourag cement
fcr future massacre and devastation"
The grand jury a little later ON voted
a service of plate to the officers of this
infamous regiment, to which circun-
stance Is owing the publication of The
following horrible massacre than which
nothing worse has been recorded of
the Turks In Armenia. or of Bashi-
BaZo'lks in Bulgaria
On 18th June. 1897, lieutenant and
party OF the Wicklow militia marched
TO GardentoWn. in Weslmeath. They
went to the house CT an Old man
named Carol. and asked for arms.
iaVlns promised protection and iudem-
h'ty TO the old man he gave them I'D
three guns. The old man was Instantly
shot through the heart by the Ee,;ten
ant, his two sons (yOung mem hcinr
Dntchered by the soldiers. One of the
soldiers begged eff the wife and child of
one OF the young men, or they would
nave met the same fate. Having burnt
down the house. tCgether with thn co,.p
hay, and all they possessed. the three
bodies were thrown on a car Two
party then proceeded to Mcyvorc. where
theE tCok into custody three men namod
iiGnIv TrI,
murray, under rretcnce of their being
United lrishmen. Having tied them to
the car on which the manela,l bodies
OF the Carols were placed they wcrc
fh''''hed about three miles, passing over
the blood of their murdered ncighlors,
ana at three o'clock on the same day
were shot at Ballymorc on the Enir
green SO universal was the panic that
man could not be procured to inter
the six bodies. which were evidently
buried by women.
The foregoing circumstances too,x
place SIX months before Christmas, 1877.
i1crd Moiras speech being delivered
three weeks before Christmas. Let m
ono Imagine for moment that these
atrocities diminished as the winter an
preached. On the contrary 1t is not
denied. and Is undeniable, that they in
creased In volume all over the country.
the nndissuiscd object being the goal
ING OF the people into a premature and
disconnected outbreak, into which. il
WAS assumed. the unfortunate popula-
ton would be driven rather than o
main in he hell upon earth the military
ana militia were preparing for them.
under the DIRECTION of the government.