The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-15
COOTE THE BUTCHER
ATRocloU5 WORK OF THIS BLOOD
THIRSTY RASCAL.

Whole Counties In Ireland Depopu-
lated by the Brutal Murderer.
Shot Dead While Performing an
/ Act of SacriIeEe.
One of the principal officers of the
! army sent over to Ireland by Elizabeth
under the command of Lord Mountjoy
/ in 1900, after the Earl of Essex's fail
ure to subdue the country, was Sir
/ Charles COote, says The Irish World.
/ For the eminent services" rendered in
/ plundering, rObbing and Strengthening
the Irish Coote was appointed provost
marshal and afterward vice president
! of Connaught In 1920 he became a
{ member of the privy council and was
knighted. He received large grants of
land, principally in Connaught, out of
which he had an income of $4,000 per
annum. When the patriotic rising took
place in 1911, Coote fastened to dis
play his loyalty by raising consid-
cradle body of troops and soon distin-
guished himself. His first act was to
go to the relief of the castle of Wick
low which was besieged by the pa
triots.
Shortly after the lords justices APP
pointed Coote to the command of troCrs
in Dublin and its immediate neighbor-
hood. He was so violent if his fury,
as a rule, he'was quite beside himself
with rage, and he appeared to those
about him to enjoy the use of his rea-
son only at rare intervals. When sum-
moned before the council in Dublin to
receive the command of the trSops, he
insisted on taking the oath in pagan
fashion, putting his hand on naked
sword and musket which were placed
on the table before him, and he swore
that he would not desist from prescott
ing the war until all the Irish were cut
off
In Coote's excursions in the counties
of Dublin and Wicklow the aged and
helpless and infrm, unable to save
themselves by fight, were massacred
in cold blood When the poor people
were found to have concealed them
selves in the frs and brushwood, the
soldiers used to form a Gordon all
around and then set fire to the frs, put
ting all to death with savage delight.
The officers declared that thus to pur-
sue the Irish was the same sport and
amusement to them as to hunt the wild
beasts.
The barbarous deeds of cruelty per-
petrated by the Puritan soldiery led
l. IL a;rt,-
wildly described in work entitled
''The Politicians Catechism," publish
ed in 1868 by Father Peter Talbot aft
erward archbishop of Dublin: WITNESS
their marches about Dublin, where the
inhabitants were all of English ex-
traction and spoke no other language
but the ancient Saxon. There are very
few of that once populous country call
ed Fingal left alive. All persisted by
fire and sword, being a most innocent
people, their only crime being that they
were Catholics. In the march Of the
Protestant army to the county of Wick
low man. woman and child were killed.
In another march into the same shire
one Master CONAN, an aged gentle
man. who never bore arms. was roast
ed alive by one Captain Gines (Guin-
ness)-yea, they murdered all that came
in their way from within two miles of
Dublin.
''In a march into the county of Kill
dare on or about February, 1912, some
of the officers went into Mrs. Eustace
of Cradogstan's house, a sister of Sir
William Talbot, of so years of age,
who, being unable to shun them, enter
tanned them with meat and drink Aft
err dinner herself and ANOTHER old gen.
tlewoman and a girl of years of age
were murdered by the said Protestant
officers.
Seven or eight hundred women and
children, plowmen and laborers were
burned and murdered in a day in the
kings tract. tract within seven miles
of Dublin, where neither murder nor
pillage had been committed on the Prot
estants. Whensoever the army went
abroad, the poor country people did be-