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Show l Prosecution of the "Irish Peo- I je Mr. Tim McCarthy Sent to I prison For Two Months. Dublin, 7th January, i j jn the northern division of If? t "l,,jie courts, before Mr. Mahoney, I i t!li ..ntnioii prosecution against Mr. i irCarthy. editor of "The Irish Peo- V"' again came before the court, to' I ,.h' jt was referred ba;-k by the i I K'ii'r' b.'i-h division, for his worship i I t u;:i 1,0 remembered that in Pep- ? f.ii.-r lust Mr. Timothy McCarthy, '. ! Mr Thomas O'Dwyer, manager; and :1 ' ctfj.hcn Holland, printer, were' i I hMvp J with having in "The Irish Peo- . ! ' "unlaw fully used intimidation; sec- ; 1 ,.v i-.ivited ro: s-ons to use intimi- ', i inwards c. .ain other persons : 'ho.-'' nmes a-e : own. 'to-wit, per- I FiiIlf: vho had Jsed. or occupied I ,.,r.n!. ;. 1 for pr . In, purposes, or from 1 v h!, !i t-nanis h - -een evicted (third) ?' I fj,'r ;:;, w fully making persons to take ! !,,!'! iii 1,1 unlawful conspiracy. 1 '.M:. Mahoney convicted the three de- I f.-ii. !a 'its on the first count, and sen- I ,,,,,, Mr. MacCarthy and Mr. O Dy-I Dy-I two months' imprisonment, and I jj... Hn!iaiid to one day. I ' on ilii- application of the crown, his j I vov'rhip stated a case for the king's ), !;. h division, and the court upheld I t!)l , .nvirtion against Mr. McCarthy I ' , p,uNsfd the case against the 1 hL.h r two defendants. They also held Jvii b! worship should have convicted ij M' 'aithy on the second and third l"yi,"(-hamhers. K. C. (instructed by p p. Coll. chief crown solicitor) ap-'.,,.,.,1 ap-'.,,.,.,1 i,r the crown. ;o-lkin. K. C. and Mr.-George V W'" iit v (instructed by Mr. Valen- I ii'ii,'- Kilbride) appeared for Mr. Mc- ! i-n.. ,-ourt was crowded. 1 I jp,. Mahony convicted Mr. McCarthy If ti'o;V thf second and third counts, and I .',!. :-, '('d him to two months' impris- I: ,,:i;;i'-iit. but without hard labor, the I ,,'.',',1, "to 'be concurrent with the sentence j j ah. a iy pronounced in reference to the J ' first 'ount. j ; M,-. McCarthy was then removed in I custodv to a waiting room in the court, I Hr.'i later on was conveyed to Mount- I joy prison. j Extraordinary Castle Tactics Mr. I ; Denis Johnston Arrested. I I At a meeting of the North Leit- I r"im executive, held on New Year's I I Jay in Manorhamilton. an unusual I I s. -ne took place. Mr. Dennis Johnston, I (irpmizer. who has already served five ' 1 months, three of them with herd labor, I iind.-r the Crimes act, was arrested un-! un-! j d: a warrant charging him with al-t al-t l.-ped intimidation at Knockroghery, j ooimtv Koseommon, in conjunction I I with Mr. John Roche. M. P.. and others j S who are undergoing a month's impris- l onmont for the same offense. When ' the meeting was about half through, at j 4:C" o'clock, and while Mr. Johnston pas addressing the delegates, Head ! constable McMahon and a sergeant ! came into the room. Mr. JcT.nston at ; on.'f ordered them out, stating they ( had no business there. Mr. Johnston walked towards the policeman, with thp intention of enforcing this order, ; I ulien Head Constable McMahon said: I "I have a warrant for your arrest." Mr. Johnston On what charge? t' Head Constable McMahon On a f charge of intimidation at Knockrogh-r Knockrogh-r ', cry meeting. : j Mr. Johnston Are you aware that ihe summons has been withdrawn by ' ih crown solicitor? . Head Constable McMahon said he ; knew nothing about that. His instruc- I lions were to execute the warrant. ; There was then a scene of wild ex- ! riit-inpnt. and but for Mr. Johnston's I intliicnoe the nolice would have 'been- badly treated. Mr. Johnston asked to b. broucrht before a magistrate, and on the head constable consenting, Mr. i j Johnston went outside with the police-i;J police-i;J man. Here there was a car of police-W police-W rrif-n armed with rifles. They took Mr. Johnston in charge, drove him a round-IV round-IV about way. avoiding the town of Ma-I Ma-I r norhamilton. a distance of nine miles. ? I t'i Promahair, where he was detained Ifer the night. The incident provoked the most intense indignation amongst the ppop! especially as Mr. Johnston n in his own home in Dromahalr on tVednopday night, and was there available avail-able for the police. He bad been in Manorhamilton several hours previous to that of the meeting. Opening New Year With Evictions. i l Ballaghadereen, Tth January. I The evictions on the Murphy estate ) v. -re resumed on Saturday, when three ; more tenants and their families were dispossessed. The tenants evicted v.f rt- j.,hn McCormack (Kittybranks), j Tlv.mas Corrigan (Kiltomaine), and J;:mes corrigan (Oreery). The hold-ir.irs hold-ir.irs of the parties concerned varied if. ext. t.t from seven to twenty acres, a portion of each holding being at j !c;- n: under water, and the land j heir.;,- -f very poor quality. This, the -!' 1 day's proceedings, like those on j ! tie- previous day, passed off practical ly wi'i..,,,t any incident of note occur- :r.a: !... nd the fact that some twenty r :ii(,-o persons were thrown upon the f 'oisih- to experience the rigors of a January morning in the west of Ireland before being rescued temporal, tempor-al, ;,t l-ast by their neighbors. The vi.-tors were at work at an unusually arly hour, the party being some ten J'f twelve miles up country f rom Cast-by Cast-by (,chck in the morning". The : riff. Mr. Burrowes Shiel, carried , "'-' th" evictions, assisted by a force '' : '! under the command of the, rn insjector, Mr. Pearsons. In j taction there were two facts ! 'V':'!'' 'i"te. In the first instance j 1f-" of police who looked after j ;: ' i'l'ej.-ts of the evictors was much j '" 1 c f than that which was out oil! th. ; ,;lhK ciay- j n the next place j !!!. Mr. Quinn, was not present, j . z gone ;iay the evening before. I ' ire 1 1, -bind a member of his staff! v'' ; i '-s, i.t him. The evictions were j v : st 1 by a number of parties on j ; h.y estate, and there were also , ' -ors from the adjoining Dillon , ' . '' tiere. as is well known, a j '-'t-ent state of affairs pre-! v The crowd made no demonstra- j '' 1 yoici groaning the evicting j ';"';' Messrs. John Fitzgibbon of, r , and Patrick Webb of Lough- n again present and watched! -1 " ' us from start to finish in the ! cim s' the tenants. E. Crean. M. at i ij. i.is Johnston were also on. . "'"''- during the day. ! , u" ':' t. nant to be put out was: j j, "' ;,l .M-Corinack. who had a holding! I K;!:i. ranks, and who owed two j i ,' -,!!'s r'.'"'- Profiting by his knowl- j i ' impending events, McCormack. j .;1" 1,v ;!le way is a district councilor! -ei.ts th district of Artagh j f''"-;hi p, the county council, had tak-,.'! tak-,.'! "'.' J'feeaution to remove his furni-"lr furni-"lr if. roivanee. When the evicting ;'V arrive, they had practically ju,'J.",lK. ,0 tlr Dut lake OVPr formal 1 "-ssi.-,.,. jn tr,iP oase the tenant l'foc.-ecle against under a writ of i 1 ' "mions. specially endorsed, so far ' dale ?s 12,h November. 1901. at which Mar,.!,'""' ,'vV0'J 1w years' rent. Last !i was further proceeded Uh rV hy ivil Dil1 Process. On the " 07 October next following his hold-'Vi-f s ' 'ul utJ for f:ale under writ of kiir.Vi' , in '''"spommon, when it was 1 fnm J1 d(nvn ,0 the sheriff for the I n!;por The final incident in this 1 jj,.0 ,r 1,ss complicated chain of legal j fJtne was witnessed today, when j he tenant and his wife and family (the latter numbering five) were dispossessed dispos-sessed in due form, two years' rent being be-ing claimed, and no move being made on the part of the tenant to seek a settlement. The next holding visited was that of ihomas Corrigan at Kiltomaine. Corrigan Cor-rigan held a small dwelling house and seven acres, by courtesy designated a tarrri, but in reality a mass of swampy land, for the possession of which he was charged 6 per annum.. This tenant, ten-ant, who was also sued for two rears rent due, expressed considerable indignation indig-nation at being proceeded against and dispossessed, with his family. Addressing Ad-dressing the crowd, he asked them to look around and see the class of land upon which he had lived and brought up a family. An impartial observer, following the drift of the man's remarks, re-marks, and gazing around, could not but agree with him that his case was a particularly hard one. All the same, the decree was enforced and Corrigan was put out. Just as the last articles of his household effects were thrown out by the bailiffs Corrigan made an attempt to approach the house, from Which he had been standing some distance dis-tance away during the earlier stages of his eviction. This he was prevented from doing by a i.juple of the police cordon which was drawn around the premises to prevent the further approach ap-proach of any but the evinting party. A minute or two later his wife tried to enter the house, but a constable on duty at the entrance barred any such intention on her part, and after a j slight show of resistance she was com- J pelled to desist. A long journey across the country brought the evictors to the scene of the third, and final, eviction for the dav. l nis was the holding of James Corrigan Corri-gan at Creevy. The holding is slightly over twenty acres, and is in quality on a par with all the other holdings on the estate. The greater part of it is at present under water, and the tenant states that suVi is the case regularly, not alone in viiiter, but also during other portion-? of the year. The annual an-nual rent on this holding is 7 10s, and, i" reply to a query put to him as to how he managed to pay rent for a 1 lace which appeared to be of little or no use all the year round, he said n? had hitherto managed to live by going to Engla-jj year by year and voi king there as a harvestman. On h:.s holding eight persons lived him-seif, him-seif, wife an 1 six children. In this case the effects had been removed ironi the house in anticipation of the visit of the sheriff's party, and nothing remained for them to do but to take over formal r issession. Building Houses For the Evicted. About 12 o'clock on Mondav a crowd of several thousand people assembled at Killobrack to build a house for John McCormack, Co. C, one of the victims of the land war. The house is built directly' di-rectly' beside the old homestead, now-occupied now-occupied by police, and is of a substantial substan-tial kind. The Murphy tenantry, all of whom were present on Monday, are determined de-termined to continue the struggle until victory is theirs. The band of Derry-pocarta Derry-pocarta U. I. L.. with beautiful ban- ner. discoursed lively airs during the proceedings, which lasted from 12 o'clock till 5, when the house" was completed- air. Denis Johnston was present pres-ent in charge of -the building., and with him., -were Messrs. Webb, - Casey and John Fitzgibbon. Death of a '67 Man. Widespread regret is felt at the death of Mr.. James Sullivan, who passed away at. his residence, Lisronagh. Clon-nel, Clon-nel, at 11 o'clock last night, after a lengthened illness, patiently and.resign-edly and.resign-edly borne. The deceased, who was ; aged, 64, was identified w ith every national na-tional movement for the past forty years, and took a leading part in the '67 rising. He was an euergetic member mem-ber of the Land League, the National Federation and the United Irish league, and was a representative of the local executive. He suffered four months' - imprisonment in Clonmel jail under the I Balfour regime. Monster Meeting at Claremorris. AH Mayo poured into Claremorris on Jan. 6, and the result was a meeting of vast proportions and unbounded enthusiasm. enthu-siasm. Within the present generation such a meeting has not been seen in Mayo that place par excellence of big meetings. The people came on foot from districts dis-tricts many miles, and the attendance was supplemented by parties who came by train from places so distant as Cas-tlebar, Cas-tlebar, Westport and Ballina. The contingents con-tingents which marched in were from Kiltimagh. Ballinrobe, Ballyhaunis, Kilkelly. Swinford. Charlestown, Balla, Aughamore and Manulla. Some of the districts had their bands and banners, and at the commencement of the meeting meet-ing the whole space in the center of the town, at the point where the chief thoroughfares thor-oughfares intersect, was densely packed. It was an asesmblage which to one who knew the west in the early days of the Land League agitation seemed remarkable for the large proportion pro-portion of young men and indeed of young women who clustered around the platform. The suggestion seemed to be that, given a fair chance, the denudation de-nudation difficulty by process of . depopulation de-population could be speedily arrested. Then it was the fathers of the villages who trudged in to hear and understand, and afterwards expound the tiding from the platform. The staple of .this ! big meeting was formed of material more expectant, more alert, and there can be no question about this, more intelligently in-telligently critical. Yet. let this be made a bit plain: Mr O'Brien's speech was a calculated deliverance. de-liverance. It was followed with the I greatest attention. Relatively, the I meeting was a silent one. Mr. O'Brien ! appeared to note his points, but there were few "voices." The tone of the i meeting was whole-heartedly and thankfully in sympathy with the message mes-sage of good prospects which the-mem-j ber for-Cork City had naturally enough ! elected to deliver to a Mayo audience, since the congested districts problem had, in his opinion, served so largely to concentrate attention upon the urgency ur-gency of the land question as a whole. ' Mr. O'Brien had personally a magni-i magni-i ficent reception. Fresh from his necessarily neces-sarily arduous labors on behalf of the agricultural interests of Ireland, and more especially of Connaught. the warmth of the welcome he received must have convinced him. if he needed convincing, that this was a people, in point of intellect and resoluteness, worth fighting for. It was. as has been said, a great and relatively silent gathering. gath-ering. There was nothing flamboyant in any of the speeches, which were business-like, and concentrated on the question of all-absorbing interest. The Yen Archdeacon Kilkenny. P. P., D P., presided at the meeting. The following districts were represented- Kiltimagh. Kilkelly and Glann, Catlebar. Uoheen. Barnacarrol. Cloon-fad Cloon-fad Ballindine, Irishtown, Bekan. East Mavo executive. South Mayo executive. Caheriitrane. County Gal way, Charles-town Charles-town and Bushfield. Swinford. Foxford. Billinasloe, Bally haunis, Kilcommon. Logbov Tangheen. Crossboyne, Knock. Meeting at Kildorrery. Cork. Jan. 5.-A large and enthusiastic enthusias-tic public meeting, organized for the purpose of strengthening and extending The work of the United Irish league in the parish, was held on Sunday ot Kil-dc.Verv. Kil-dc.Verv. The meeting was addressed frrm the local dispensary, and the proceedings pro-ceedings gave evidence of the sturdy spirit of Nationality which . has characterized charac-terized the district since the inception of the movement there. Thfre was a verv large attendance of members of the branch, besides which contingents attended from Ballindangan, Glan-worth, Glan-worth, Mltchelstown and other surrounding sur-rounding districts. |