Evening star., 1921-05-22
IRISH
HOME DESCRIBED
absent Woman Suffers for
Failure to Report Ambush
Mile Away.
BY the Associated Press

| LIMERICK, Ireland, May Miss
! Una DAILY has given a graphic de-
scription Of black and tan raid on
an Irish home in an affidavit she
has just filed here. Miss DAILY wit
! messed the destruction of the furnish
ings of her house and describes the
special delight which. she says, the
British army seemed to take in their
work.
! Miss DAILY declared that the officer
in command informed her that the
official reprisal was carried out be-
. cause the owner of the house, Miss
! Madge Daily. Una's sister. failed to
notify the British authorities of an
Irish ambush made about mile away
from their home on the previous
night.
IAN officer told us that they were
/ going to burn the house and that we
/ had fifteen minutes to clear out" said
| Una Daily. We learned that we could
take what family photographs. ad-
dresses. etc, we could get in that
time. Most of the time was spent in
helping my aunt down from her room,
at the top of the house.
! Then we were ordered to the back
garden while the building was search
ed by the military and the police.
who, armed with sledse hammers and
work to break every piece of furni-
ture in the house.
THE conduct of Sergt. Horan." she
said. was particularly painful to US.
He danced about in a Silk hat be-
longing to my uncle. the late John
Daily. The memory of this uncle. who
reared me and my orphan sisters and
brother, is very dear to us and all
his effects were held as treasures.
| Not content with wounding our
feelings. this Sergt Horan poured a
torrent of vile abuse on me and my
sister and mother. while all those
tchivalrous officers and soldiers of the
3gloriouS British army seemed to en-
joy the joke. / can say that 1 did
not see single act of courtesy or
manlinesS from any individual of all
that big force.
TIE officers of the British army
! seemed to take special delight in
| their work. One took fur coat and
| collar from my sister and threw them
into the fire; another picked up pair
of new shoes and did the same. One
| soldier paraded at the window in a
lady's corset: another decked himself
! in suit of pajamaS which belonged
| to my dead brother
| For two and one-half hours we
| were forced to listen to the blows
| that destroyed our home. to see the
! windows being smashed out and the
/ broken furniture. glass. bedding,
clothes. china. etc. pelted out These
were taken to the road. where a huge
bOnnre was made ana the remnants
| were consumed.
| BLACK and tans went to the hot
| house and broke every plant in it
! with mallets. The gas brackets in
| the house were bent and torn down.
! the brass fittings in the hall torn
| out and all fixtures broken and dam
| aged.
| I'VE had a lovely home, eleven
rooms beautifully furnished. and when
i the British wreckers were finished we
! had a few pictures of our dead
j An oidisn officer, accompanied by
ianother, came to us in the garden
during the process of destruction and
asked for Miss Madge DAILY. When
| told that she was in Dublin. he pro-
ceeded to read from a paper that, as
| Miss Madge DAILY did not give notice
to the military of an ambush which
| took place in John street on the pre-
vious night. all contents of the house
! were to be destroyed by military
! order
Now, our house is over mile from
/, the place where this supposed am
| bush took place, with the river be-
tween. My sister Madge was in Dub
lin at the time, yet our house is de-
stroyed because she did not give no.
/ tice of what she could not possibly
have knowledge of, even supposing
| that she was despicable enough to
turn spy and traitor to her own"