The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-06-04
The British i'm Ireland
Repeat the Program of Tarleton
and Others in the American
Revolution


Limerick. Ireland. May 5-Miss
gna Daily. has given a graphic de-
ssaption. of a Black and Tan raid
0n an Irish horRe in an affidavit she
has lust field here. Miss, DAILY wit
gAssed the destruction Of the fur
nsshinss OF her house and describes
tie special delight which, she says.
ssGshe British army seemed to. take in
their work
hiss sDaly declared that the officer
III command informed her that tbs
cfIciaI reprisal was carried out be-
calse the owner of the house. Miss
sEadge Da1y, Una's sister. failed to
uotify the British authorities of an
4rssh ambush made about mile away
from their home on the previous
night.
-An officer told us that they were
going to burn, the house and that we
had. Is minutes 70 clear OUT said
Una Daily. We learned that we could
take what family photographs, ad-
dresses etc, that we could get in that
ttssTns. Most OF the time was spent in
helping my aunt down from her room
at t.ths 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 sledge hammers and
simrfemsnts of destruction, set to work
TO brea;k every piece of furniture In
the house.
The conduct OF Sergeant Horan
sw4s particularly painful to us. He
danced about in silk hat belonging
TO my uncle, tie late John DAILY. The
memory Of this uncle who reared me
Exsd my orphan sisters and brothers
Is very dear 20 US and all his eff
sfeS4s were held as treasures.
Not content with Wounding our
Feelings, this Sergeant Horan poured
"a torrent OF abuse on me and nay sas-
tsrs and: mother while all those chiv-
s6lrous officers and soldiers OF the glo-
xions British army seemed to enjoy
the Joke. can say that did not
res single: act OF courtesy or manli-
ness from, any individual of: all that
BIS fprce. So
IS .sTha offeers OF the British army
sesiasa to take a special delight in
their wori. r0aa. took q fur coat and
collar from my sister and threw them
into the dre; another picked up a
pair OF new shoes and did the same.
pne: soldier paraded at the window
III. 81 fady's corset. another decked
himself, In q suit Of pajamas which
belonged to- NY dead brothe-.
For two and one-hals hours we
were forced to listen TO the blows
4hat destroyed our home, to see the
windows being smashed out and the
Ensnstuxe, glass, bedding. clothes.
china, etc, pelted out. These were
tSken to the road where 8 huge bon
Arewass made and the remnants were
consumed.
Hack and Tans went to, the hot
he6ss.ad .broke every plant in it With
mal1ets. The gas brackets in the
house, were bent and torn down.. the
Efsss fittings IN the ball. torn out
and ais fixtures broken and dam
we had 4 lovely home. II rooms
Beautifully furnished and when the
British wreckeSs, were finished we
haasa few pictures OF our dead.
IS, AN oidish officer accompanied by
smother came to us liz the garden
during the process of destruction and
asked for. Miss Madse Daly. When
told that she: Eas in Dublin. he pro-
3ceeded TO read from paper that as
Miss Madge did not give notice to the
military OF an ambush which took
pfaes III John Streeet on the previous
might, al contents of the house were
so:s be destroyed by military order.
ssEsssyow. our honse is over a mile
from the place where this supposed
arnbush, took place, with the river
bstween NY sister Madge was in
Dublin at ths time. yet CUR house is
.destroyed because She did not give
notice. Of what she could not posi-
BY nave knowledge <of, even sup
nosing that she was despicable
enough 30 turn spy and traitor to
her own
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