The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-28
Week-End Gossip iron, Dublin
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BY TIMOTHY J. O,CONNoR.

Il Dublin. March 27-Some strong com
 ments on the State of Ireland wer,
 made by Mir. Justice Wright at thu
 Glare Assizes. -sN
 Bartholomew MacNamara. a young
 laborer, was charged with an offens,
 under the Whiteby acts, passed in tn,
 Eighteenth Century for the suppres
 sion of outrages. Evidence was givei
 by Mrs. Doyle. whose husband wal
 herd on boycotted farm on tn,
 Bentley estate. that she saw MacNa'
 mara fire a revolver outside her house
 Police evidence showed that constable.
 who went in the direction whence tn,
 shots were fired met MacNamara, ant
 others. whom they searched. They
 found revolver containing five empt, cartridges in a field by the roadside.
 The judge commented on the wide.
 spread use of firearms. He had beer
 informed, he said. that revolvers could
 be purchased for a few shillings. and g
 rife that woul dcarry 1000 yards for
 1Ss. 3d.. The habit of carrying fire. arms was a dangerous one, and he did
 not know of anything fraught with
 greater danger to the public peace.
 Eventually the jury acquitted Mac l Namara.
 In a second case. Pat Stephens was
 similarly charged. A farmer named John Moloney swore that he saw I road in front of his house. and he sub l sequently fired a number of shots about ! the house.
 Head Constable Coffee gave evidence | as to the disturbed state of the Broad l ford district. The place was full of revolvers. he said, and people coming home from market fired them along the roads. t
 Tn the village of Broadford itself. recently, fifteen or sixteen shots were discharged by opposing parties at op- posite ends of the village. and 8 con- | stable who got in the line of fire was wounded.
 Justice Wright said the head consta- ble had given a grahpic account of a pitched battle. in which the one consta- ble. who in the discharge of his duty, tried to get between the parties. It was deplorable state of things hat almost every person in Broadford went about carrying a revolver. and the only con clusion to his mind was that Broadford was a very good place to live out of.
 The jury also acquitted Stephens.
 Another Case.
 In third case, in which a man named Keidy, was charged with an at- tack on the house of a man named Mc- Mahon, a son of the latter said he rec- ognized the accused by the flash of the gun which he fired into the house. District Inspector McClelland said that the district was very much disturbed. Eight dwelling houses had been fired into in this locality in the year 1908. and there had been cases of threaten ing letters, malicious injuries. and maimfng of cattle. Keidy was also ac- quilted.
 Nine men of the farming. class charg- ed at Athenry with shouting. grooming. and cheering for the purpose of intimi- dott y~6o al ta Cnr of Mrs. Ryan, who holds an evicted farm on the Clanricarde estate, near Craugh- well. were held in $100 bail each. The farm In question is that on which Con stable Goldrick was murdered on January 22.
 Mysterious signs and passwords are. according to MT. Tim Healy. K. C.. M. P.. the means by which members of the Molly Maguires" distinguish each other. MT. Healy described the so- ciety and its methods before the divis- tonal police magistrate in Dublin. and declared that more than 200 of the "Mollies." armed with boxwood bud geons, came from Belfast to terrorize the recent Irish National Convention In Dublin.
 Mir Healy appeared as counsel for Eugene Crean. M P. who charges Jo- seph Devlin, M. P. and Denis Johnston, Secretary of the United Irish League. with instigating an assault on him at the convention and with organizing a plot to disturb the orderly proceedings at the convention. The latter charge made under the public meetings act.
 The proceedings arise out of the scene when William O'Brien and his followers were howled down and MT. Cream 1t Is alleged. was assaulted. MT. Devlin is the Chairman of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, which its enemies allege has no connection with the great l American friendly society of that name. | that 1t Is a revival of the Molly Ma | guires." which became infamous for | the crimes of its members in Ulster in | the middle of the last century.
 Ireland's Public Men.
 MT, Healy declared that the question | was whether public men could take part In their public duties only at the will of the Molly Maguires."
 Public men in Ireland" he said. are determined that they wiA not take their orders from Joseph Devlin' and the Molly Maguires' They are determ- ned to put down this infamous system of tyranny which eventuated in the recent ruffianism in the Mansion House, md to expose it to the public gaze.
 The whole of the ruffianism came from Belfast, the tickets were printed in Belfast, the bludgeon men came from Belfast, and Joseph Devlin rep resented Belfast. MT. Devlin, for some l furtive purpose, galvanized into cer- tain parts of Ireland the remnant of the ancient Molly Maguires' faction, and dubbed them The Ancient Order of 
 MT. Healy quoted the language of a Lenten pastoral by Cardinal Logue in reference to thi ssociety, condemning It as dangerous to the moral and spir- tual welfare of the people, and, then ne recited the signs and passwords
 This society, which professed to represent the remarees of Limerick and Sarsheld's Riders, and Rory Ogue. and other distinguished persons In Irish said Mir. Healy, was brtgad- ed by Mir. Devlin under the British Lion and Unicorn and the British Socities act.
 "A private and confidential circular was issued by MT. Deylin to the mem bers, and in consequence 223- young gentlemen, who came from Belfast, to the meeting.
 Here Mir. Healy held aIoft formid- able boxwood baton, which, he said, was a specimen of number that were In sacks under the charge of Mir. John Massion House. gave each of them a green rosette and a bludgeon.
 At the close of the day said Mir Healy, "Mr. Johnston, from & pile of gold before him, gave to each worker In the vineyard who handed up his baton half a sovereign. Instructions were given to the Belfast bludgeon men not to allow any man who had Cork accent to come near the plat