Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-21
TIPPERARY PUNISHED
FIVE WHOLE MONTHS
FOR CRIME NOT PROVEN


| be informed of the state of feeling by
! it's legiOns of spies throughout the
! country There is not a man in the
| district who could not have told them
| that to flaunt gelignite weakly guard
| ed in the faces of the extremists was
! to provide a fifty-to-one chance of its
! capture.
Dublin Castle made the usual inef-
| fectual attempt to capture the muir
derers, and then declared the town
of Tipperary with a radius around it,
in state of siege. This was done
by the Con petent Military Author
!ty," to which Chief Secretary Mac
pherson, on his own showing, has
committed the administration of Ire
land. x state of siege means that all
the inhabitants, who are not persona
grata to the police, are subjected to
continuous Interference, degenerating
into persecution. by the methods cuI-
tirated by the authorities. No one
could enter or leave the prescribed
area without military permit. These
were difficult to obtain when sought
and the bulk of the people would not
condescend to seek them. Searches
lnquisitions and all manner of irritat-
ing restrictions were carried ont APP
parently at the will Of the local po-
licemen.
1t is fair to say | was informed
that the rank and file of the soldiery
gave sufficient proof of their dislike
of this invidiOus and contemplate
occupation. Not so all the officers.
Some Of these undertook it with
gusto, and showed an animus sug-
costing that even more drastic meas
ures would please them better. Pick
cts We're posted at frequent intervals
along all the roads leading to the
town and the commanding points of
the surrounding country. Every one,
except the police and military and the
ponce favorites, was treated as a pos
sible criminal. 1t was indeed "A
Long, Long Way to Tipperary" for all
but the favored few.
Provocative Tactics.
The most provocative tactics were
adopted by the iackboots in office for
nearly five months. The people treat
ed their jailers-for that IS what they
really Were-With silent conempt, and
it is calculated that at the end of the
military regime there were five Sim
felnefs IN the district for every one
that had been there before.
As a means Of capturing the authors
OF the outrage the rigors inflicted by
the army of occupation proved en-
tirely futile. The authors of the
crime remain at large, without trace
OF their identity being discovered
A tragic encounter with the police
at Knocklon station, some short
distance from here. had it's reaction
on the proclaimed district of Tippe-
rary
A man named Hogan was arrested
by the police at Thurles, the next
large country town. for being found
IN possession of a gun. Being found
with firearm these days in Ireland
Is a crime Of the first order in the
eyes of the authorities Hogan hav-
ing been kept in prison in Thurles a
few days, was being taken to Cork
jail so that IAN investigation might
be held with a view of formulating a
charge against him"
This is the procedure here nova
days-you are arrested first and the
charge is formulated against you
after Investigation. He was accom-
panied by four policemen in an or
binary third class compartment of a
corridor train, At Knocking station,
one of the quiestest on the tine, four
or five men entered the train, made
their way to the compartment where
Hogan was under his police guard,
and pushed into it. A fight ensued,
the police sergeant was shot dead, one
of the constables was MORALLY wound
ed, and Hogan was rescued.
The whole party got away. not
leaving the slightest clue. and al
though this happened some eight
weeks ago, the police securing the
country, making domiciliary visits,
and using their unlimited powers
without limit, Hogan and his res
cuers are still at large 1t is claimed
that the sergeant. in the confusion OF
the struggle, was accidentally killed
by one of his subordinates.
Only a Boy Arrested.
The only arrest the police made in
connection with this affair was that
of a boy named Connors, II years
of age-this in fact not being an ar
rest, but q case of police kidnapping.
What they expected to get from the
boy nobody knows. He was kidnapped
by the police. and for two months his
mother could get no tidings of him.
Mr.. Macpherson, questioned in the
house of commons by English men,
bers, gave evasive answers. The arch
bishop of Cashel. who wrote him de-
scribing the distracted state of the
child's mother, had no better success.
Proceedings We're taken for habeas
corpus and the castle. aware that its
action was grossly illegal. sent the boy
back to his parents rather than face
an inquiry in court.
1t was explained by Mr.. Macpher-
son, or some one on his behalf, that
the boy had been taken away for
his Town protection" The truth was
that during lis illegal detention the
police who kept him at the constabu-
larry depot in Dublin treated him fair
ly well, questioning him all the time
about the movements of Hogan and
other people in Thurles, against whom
they were trying to make UP n case
in connection with the affairs at Soil
head and Knocklong. A suit has
now been entered by the child's par
ent for damages for illegal detention,
when the facts should all come out.
The Galtee mountains form pic
turesque rampant to the fertile valleys
that surround the town of Tipperary.
The hillmen of these mountains are a
fine type of hard working, independ-
ent men. There is no place in the
British empire from which more
courageous or intrepid soldiers were
formerly secured for the British
army. But the recruiting sergeant is
never seen there now. No one need
envy the man who tried these times to |
tempt the men of the Galtees with the |
kings shilling.
Hogan Has Vanished.
Hogan, who was rescued from the |
train at Knockalong, has vanished as
effectually as the desperadoes who |
ambushed the police and walked off |
with the gelignite near Solihead. The |
people of Tipperary have been watch
ING the efforts To recanture him and |