The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-24
"AMERICA" THE VII LACE FROM
WHICH IRISH EMIGRATED
Scene of Tragic Events Is Typical of It's Section
Stories of the Place

Special Correspondence of The Globe
DUBLIN, July Accompanying
this article are two photographs which
l secured recently while on a visit to
America" the little Irish village which
possesses so peculiar an interest for
travellers from home. For America"
of course, is the place from whence
started that great stream of Irish emf
grafton which well nigh emptied many
districts of the Emerald Isle and gave
to the United States hundreds of thou
sands of hard working men and women
who have done their share in making
1t the most prosperous nation in the
world. The fact is commemorated in
the name bestowed on the place-than
which none sounds pleaSanter in Irish
ears. But America has another and
more recent claim to remembrance
Sanguinary one that yields a gruesomc
record of murder and asSassinat ton. of
shots in the dark and shots from be-
hind hedges in broad daylight, of hang
ings and escapes from the gallows.
For 1t was in the neighborhood during
the height of the land agitation that
some of the worst of the many OUT
RACES which marked that distressfuf
period of Irish history were planned
and perpetrated
Oii 'iiJ Nioil " 1aIHcIlCd SdW
standing in the doorway of her thatch-
ed cottage and placidly smoking pipe,
while the family pigs rooted and grunt-
ed contentedly in the yard, an old wom-
man who was a passive participant in
one of the most tragic of these dramas.
In front of her dwelling two bailiffs
were shot down and she mopped up
the blood from the stones and held her
peace about it for many days, as all
her neighbors did until the police had
made many arrests and the inevitable
1nformerS had turned up-one of them
in the person of her own son. Mrs.
Mary Kerrigan is her name and though
inclined to be garrulous in her old age
her mouth closes like steel trap when
any stranger breaches the subject of
the double murder and neither bribery
nor cajolery can induce her to speak
of it,
At the time it occurred the inhab-
ltants of America, in common with the
majority of the peasantry and small
farmers in Galway, Mayo and Sligo,
had decided that they might attain
happiness and prosperity by the simple
process of declining to pay any more
rent Lord Ardilaun, the owner of the
village, dispatched two bailiffs named
Huddy-grandfathe and grandson-to
serve eJectment processes on several of
the tenantry who were in arrears. The
two bailiffs lived at Cong, about five
miles away. They proceeded to Amer
lea by car. but instead of driving right
into the village stopped within a short
distance of it, and leaving the driver
In charge of the conveyanceS, finished
the journey on foot. Only a few min
uteS had elapsed when the driver heard
several pistol shots fired in quick sue
cession. AS the two bailiffs did not
appear, he. after waiting some time,
drove back to Cong; and next morning
packed up his belongings and sought
safety in the greater America on the
other side of the Atlantic
The flight of the driver and the dis
appearance OF the Huddys at once
aroused the suspicious of the constabu-
larry, who commenced search bur
without success. Active inquiries were
pursued for several days, in the course
or which man named Moran admitted
that when the Huddys arrived at the
village he heard shots, but beyond this
although the police were perfectly con-
WINGED that foul play had been COM
mitted, no further information could be
obtained. Even the little children who
knew quite as much of the affair as
their elders, maintaining an obstinate
silence when questioned; it was there
fore assumed that the Huddys had
been murdered and the bodies buried
In a bog hole or thrown into Tough
Mask.
Here the police were confronted with
task of almost insurmountable diff
Guilty owing to the vast expanse of
country that had to be examined
While inquiries were being carried on
by the local police. large numbers of
soldiers and additional constabufary
were drafted into the district: a gum