The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
LITTLE CRIME IN
 CITY OF DUBLIN
There Are But Few Arrests in
 Capital of Ireland
SALE DRAWS CROWDS
covers old Decision and Cuts Down Jury Service to Ap-
 paIIing Degree

Dublin, December Especial )-There is very little crime in this city and, con-
 sequently, arrests are few. The police authorities fancy, however, that the con stables are neglecting duty and an order
 has been issued calling upon command
 CTS to file monthly a report of ''con-
 stables on day duty who have not sum-
 monses or arrests during the month are to be reported and brought before me at
 the latter end of the month-also ser
 geant in charge of such constables-as defaulters."
 At the convention of the Wolfe Tone
 and United Irishmen memorial commit
 tee held here the annual showed that
 good work was done during the year.
 The Rev. Eugene Sheehy 1t was stated Is
 about commencing lecture tour in aid
 of the memorial fund in the United
 States, which is expected to bear satis-
 factory fruit in stimulating the interest
 of the Irish-American citizens in the me-
 morial to the greatest Irish-American
 citizens who were republicans.
 The sum of G100 was advanced to. F ather sheehy toward the expenses of
 the tour. A sum of s2S60 42 Is lying in
 the Hibernia Loan and Savings bank of San Francisco in the names of the trus-
 tees, but this cannot be taken into the balance sheet until forwarded by the local committee in that city. As it is
 earning larger interest in San Francisco than it could in security of equal value I,s1 ,t5 5o5 1F 4l~
 tee there do not intend to use it until needed.
 Sir Thornley Stoker's sale has gone on gaily all this week. This sale has
 brought nearly every British dealer of note to Dublin, and. between times they
 have visited many of the antique shops and picked up treasures The chief treasure of the sale. of silver plate went Etc John Noble of Newcastle, England,
 who now possesses some really unique
 Specimens of, Jacobean silver--the best Eperiod. v
 |@ One of the weirdest lots in the whole
 collection of curios was put up-the block on which Robert Emmet's head rested after the decapitation. It only fetched
 a small sum, which speaks we'll for the taste of the twentieth century. When one remembers it was in this very street i-tfHly -place) that Emmet woed and won Sarah Curran, daughter of John PhilpotI Cuiran, it seems curious fate that this gruesome relic should be sold so near A fussy old Irish county judge named Craig, who spends his time fussing among Law books which are blue moldy from age, recently discovered a decision hun dreds of years old and he applied it in decisions which deprived thousands of Irishmen from serving as jurors. The | Kings bench has reserved him. Craigs truling in one county alone, namely Coun- ty Monaghan. The jury list has been reduced from 150O jurors to 600 The coun- ty judge stated that he had followed the advice contained in letter from the law adviser of the crown In 1877, taking the view that occupation excluded the per- sons indicated and he also submitted
 that by the acts of 1871 and 1S73 the very
 small peasant class were deliberately ex-
 cluded from being jurors. In the Dublin court of appeals an ap- peal from 227 inhabitants of the Inish- more was heard against the action of the
 revising barrister in striking their names off the list of voters. No taxes, it was l stated, had been paid on the island for | over two years the county council of l Galway being unable to get any person | to collect. The claimants contended that | as there was no collector they should not be disqualified for non-payment of | their taxes, but the court upheld the 1 decision. If this decision holds good 1t would be- possible for the authorities to prevent people from voting by purposely neglecting to have taxes collected in a given year.