| Show A DRAMATIC CHAPTER IN REAL LIFE JAMES LENNON of rostrevor Bos Ros trevor county down Irela ireland tid was arrested and imprisoned some time ago under the provisions of the balfour coercion act he served his term and his release was commemorated by a public demon ration et shortly after he attended ft fair about two milta from his bis home here he be indulged in language as an 7 treasonable as that for which he had already suffered imprisonment the police took note of it and set about securing a warrant for lennon bennona Len nona Is re arrest lennon heard of this and not wishing to enter balfourd Bal fours bastile a second time consulted his bis friend john leonard as to the best befit plan to pursue john suggested flight and in order to help volunteered to td do a small damon ard and pythias act in fact both changed i clothes the understanding being tha that leonard would come home to len house where the police would arrest him bim and would not discover their mistake for some somo time this would give lennon a fair chance chau to escape lennon did escape and went into another county where he be remained undisturbed for several weeks but bua during his absence the most dramatic dram tj part of the play was acted out on the return of leonard from the fair the evening in question he fell or oi wan pushed pus bed into a ditch where he wap w drowned his body remained in the ditch several days before discovery I 1 when discovered and invest in venti gated the body was identified as that of james lennon th the man wanted by the police the clothes were identified emphatically but owing to discoloration of the face from bog water the friends 0 lennon were misled the body wab waked buried and over it a handlo handsome J cross erected in memory of the patri patrikc 2 oC after several weeks lennon co cony eluded to emerge from his bis hiding biding i and return to his old home quietly early earl on a sunday morning he arrival arrived in the vicinity of his bis house bouse he idd hid 4 behind some bushes when ho he observe observer persons advancing to his surprise hi he saw his bis wife and william rodgers Bod gers b hl foreman arm in arm going to maw mass he let them pass on but mi hia soul was perplexed in his hia anxiety he sought th u residence of the parish pariah which was near at hand whap he be entered the he t father f a ther was pr N paring to leave but on seeing lennort genuo he be took out his bin beads and breviary then solemnly said james lenno dennou Len noU are you alive or dead james said eaid higa 14 was alive and explained to the arleo all about his flight then the priest 1 told about the death the wake WO oko funeral and last of all the mar marriage riago ak ai mrs len bon to william rogers j james amnon stupefied fied at the doiy stow J he had heard quietly left the clao and took ship for new york where ht arrived about two weeks ago in that I city he be met old friends and talked the M matter r rover over of course it was waa shown I 1 him that the marriage of his wife was invalid lidid sad aad could be easily set aside it further appeared that his wife was 1 coerced into marriage by rodgers Bod gers r the ft latter was a foreman in the mill ta owned by lennon and he threatened mm him pennon that unless she married ia him he would take possession of the e mal by foreclosing what he pretended S ru W a mortgage he had on it li lennon has gone back to ireland to y claim his hia wife and to give the police hf and people of county down one of ahe the siabet Sin bet beautiful ghost scares that crof aou on croker or mrs hall ever wrote 1 about |
