Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-11-20

day, evening l came home, driving
from the sea. 4 had been told that
house in X had been burned in
the night, the Sunday night, and we
passed by its ruined walls. But that
Is a common sight in towns now,
and there seems to be some doubt
who burned this.
A little farther, at the cross roads.
there was another ruin, Ms, the
smiths. His house had alss been
burned down in the night, "by Mill
tary and police" he and his family
had found shelter in the cart shed.
1t seemed so silent; we had ALWAYS
heard the hammer of the smithy az
we passed and seen the glow of the
Tire. And he was such o good
smith. l remember how our best
hunters used to be sent to him.
"One of his sons was said to be sec
rotary 10 a Sim Fein Committee"
Today M. l.. came to ask for sand
for the building up of BN's house
at B., burned also on the Sunday
might by military and police. They
~ ~OAO " iOVh hOi OHo OI the
sons and he was not there. Then
they told B. to take what money
he had out of the house, and had SET
fire to IT. There were children in
the house. M has taken two of
them to his. They say G. would
have been burned on Saturday by
drunken soldiers arriving from E..
put three OF the old police restrain
ed them.
September 30.-I was quite i'll.
could not eat or sleep, after that
Homecoming. the desolation of that
burned forge, and all one hears.
e. MS beautiful little village hall
burned down.
G. coming to work at the winery
from c., says that on Monday
night two lorries of military came
into the town firing and shooting,
and the people brought out their
furniture from their houses, expect
ing the burnings to begin. Black
end-Tans and police and military
burned BIS house, an officer with
them, but was there e'er a gentle
man among them"
October 1.-B. No post today.
X Old Patrick F. working for me
says: "There did two car loads OF
the Black-and-Tans come into c.
yesterday evening. They were a
holy fright-shooting and firing.
They broke into houses and search
ed them. and they searched the peo-
Tle in the street, women and girls
that were coming out from the
chapel, and that came running down
our street In dread of their life.
l.r.wv - . o.
and got drunk there-it Is terrible
to let them do that. Look at is,
they burned all the bedding in the
house and every bit OF money he
had, and nine acres of wheat and
oats. They would have burned the
hay, but they didn't see ii. At B-'s
they kept the boys running up and
down the road for near an -hour-and-
a-half, and they all but naked while
they were chasing them up and
down, and girls nearly the same
way. 1t Is holy crime; 1t Is worse
than Belgium. What call have they
coming to c., that is such a quiet
little town? One of your own work
men that went into c. in the even
ing with a message from his wife.
that Is sick was stopped near the
town and made put up his hands
and was searched"
M has just brought me back a
book, 'Chez Swami" that had sent
to go back to Nudes. There was
a regiment OF soldiers with their
bayonets standing at the post office
door, and no one could go in, and
the shuts up as on Sundays. They
we're said to be searching the letters
inside. Old T. is trembling, there
is no one is safe!"
October 2--N0 letters yet. J.
says the military opened all the let
tiers tht came in yesterday, that time
they were at the post office. The
Blach1 lnd-Tans left last nikht
They searched good many houses
and found nothing, but any pictures
they saw that had anything to do
with Sim Fem they tore and broke
them. Young H was trying to
slip away from them, but they fired
and hit him in the thigh. They went
singing about the streets, freshmen,
come into the parlor,' and Who
fears to speak of Easter Week.
There were not three people In c.
went TO bed ere last night, but sit
ting up though the night time keep
ing the lights quenched v, that
was a policeman's son from the
neighborhood. was the officer over
the Black-and-Tans, a tall young
fellow. He was wearing a white
cloth over his face, and holes cut in
1t for the eyes. The house was
searched twice, where x lives that
killed VS. father last year with a
blow of a hurls but that was ac-
quilted, but for manslaughter. They
are thinking he wants his revenge.
But s. says 1t would have been
worse but for " being in It, he
has friends he would not wish to
harm In the town"
1.-THE reason for BIS house be-
ing burned was that he had driven
cattle on Lord -'s property at
D., and the police say they heard
shots there one night. There are
others living near that say there
were no shots fired. 1t was
O'Clock in the night time they burn
ed the house and the wheat and the
oats--a slated house and as well
furnished as any house you could
see. The boy they were looking for
was in 1t, and they covered him
with their revolvers, eight of them,
holding them to his head and his
body. but the officer said, We can
do enough harm without killing
him. and they began the burning"
]. M says the Black-and-Ta
fired thirty shots at H., but only
one hit, In the shoulder: and that
they broke all the pictures and fur
niture In BIS shop.