Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-30
WOMEN AS RIOTERS
County Roscommon Given to
Disorder.
FORTHCOMING" DISTRICT
Irish Land Troubles Lead to Robbery
and Assaults.
MIDNIGHT RAIDS ON CATTLE
Wives and Daughters OF Tenants
Said to Be Fiercest Fighters
Against Constabulary.



DUBLIN, September 3O.-Arrests continue
in Longford and Roscommon, two OF the
six Irish counties proclaimed by the gov
ment in consequence of the serious deVei-
opment Of the agrarian agitation, and par
ticularly of the frequency of cases of cat
tie raiding AS protest against large
areas being used as grazing lands by non
residential owners (often butchers in the
towns) evicted tenants said to organ
ize raids. in which women take fierce
part to drive off the cattle from the land
which. they say, they are deprived Of the
chance of cultvating. Roscommon 1s prac-
tically "dragooned' by police. especially in
view of the trial at Ballntubber or more
than twenty persons, most OF them women
for a cattle drive in that county. The no
lice encamoed on the farm of Mr. Payne
an extensive grazier of Fohenagh. were at
tackled by a mob on different days. The
fercest in the charge on each occasion, 1t
Is alleged by the constabulary, were the
wives and daughters Of Roscommon farm
ers Police are being poured into the ds-
trct, and the government evidently intends
to put down with a firm hand any de mon
stration in favor Of the defendants.
Women Hailed to Court.
In nationalist circles In Boyle much in
ulSndtlOH Is eSsTeSScO dl the Pi oSidAitAlioh
of Roscommon as disturbed area. and
public meetings are to be held in denuncia
ton of the policy Of the government. At a
special court held in Ballintubber, County
Roscommon, five women. farmers wives
and daughters and two men were sum-
moned by the crown for assaulting and in
timidatinS two local graziers, and with as
saulting and threatening to take the lives
Of several members Of the constabulary.
The charges arose out of the visits of land
holders to their holdings District Inspector
Rose said whenever the police went near
farms horns were blown and crowds sum-
moned whose object was to intimdate the
forces Of the crown-an object which often
succeeded. Only a few days previously he
was pelted by women with rotten eggs.
The cases were adjourned.
Passive Resistance"
Charles ]. Dolan. NJ P. for North
Leithm, who has joined Sim Fein the
advanced home rule party opposed to TAX
ing part In sending members to Westmin-
ster), has addressed a number of meetings
in his constituency. III we want home
rule" he said, I'VE must fl st take it and
then fight for it. and since we cannot have
recourse to armed resistance under existing
circumstances. let us employ passive
sIstance."
Mr. Ginnell. MP for North Westmeath,
has also delivered a remarkable speech at
Drumshoughlin, County Meath. Before the
winter he said, beginning must be made
to clear the cattl" off the grazing ranches
in that district. If 1t were done In a num-
Der of places he went on, it would be i'm
possible for the government to provide po-
lice for them all. At least one member of
the cabinet had said that Irishmen who did
not now strike death blow at landlord
ism and ranching were not worth their
salt.
Moonlighters Attack Mansion.
A few nights ago party Of moonlight
ers made a determined attack on Mona
tique House near Athenry. County Galway,
firing shots into the mansion and shatter-
ing a number of windows. The house has
been under constant police protection for
months past and a pitched battle took
place. upward of fifty shots being fired
Royal Irish cOnstabulary were lying in
ambush, close to the residence, and when
the first shots had been fired they con-
fronted the patty of ten marauders and at
a distance of thirty yards or so poured a
volley into them. Immediately after the
band had delivered their first volley they
We're on the point of retiring. but when the
constabulary fired they again loaded their
guns and delivered an attack on the police.
The latte vigorously responded with their
magazine rifles. desultory fire continued
for some time between the combatants, but
the shooting of the moonlighters was not
good. Some of the police however, had
narrow escapes. The cause of the affair
Is said to be due to the fact that Martin
McDonagh, a merchant of Galway. holds
large farm from which a number of tenants
were evicted some years ago. and there is
difficulty as to effecting sale. There Were
ten occupants in the house at the time the
shooting took place.
Raid Lands Of Marchioness.
An extensive cattle drive took place
recently at Kilbarry, County Meath,
county which hitherto has been free from
raids of this description. The lands are
the property of the Warehouses of Win
chester, and have been let out in grazing
divisions. In one division James Finnegan
Wilkinstoun, a member of the Navan rural
dist let council, has sixteen cattle. and in
a second division Mr.. Gugerty OF Kells had
forty-two cattle and twenty sheep and Mr..
Lowry sixty cattle. Acting Sergeant Wig
gins of Georges Cross was on patrol duty
in the vicinity of the farms up to II O'Clock
the previous night when he returned to
barracks In the morning all the stock
was discovered to be missing. During the
day sxty-eight of the cattle were discov-
e-ed three miles distant. Twenty sheep are
still missing. On visiting the farms the
police found that the locks had been broken