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The Virginian
Lynchburg, Virginia
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Reports from Irish papers detail armed masked insurgents committing outrages across Ireland, including robbing 16 farms in Kilkenny county in one night, shooting resisters, stabbing livestock, and killing boys in revenge for unpunished murders by peace officers.
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FROM IRELAND
New York, June 15—By the ship Gem, from Londonderry, we have received files of the Dublin Evening Post and Belfast News-Letter to the 7th May. To counteract the crimes, too numerous outrages committed in different parts of Ireland, during which the insurgents, who wore masks, and were armed, not only robbed servants, but maltreated the peaceable inhabitants. In one night, sixteen farms were attacked and robbed by an armed band, in the county of Kilkenny. Where resistance was offered, the robbers and their accomplices shot several of their victims. They even carried their diabolical system so far as to stab cows and pigs, and cut the throats of boys belonging to those marked out for revenge. The perpetrators of these crimes assumed to themselves the right of retributing, for murders said to have been committed by the officers of peace which had not been sufficiently punished by the established authorities. [Freeman's Post.
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Ireland
Event Date
To The 7th May
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several victims shot where resistance was offered; cows and pigs stabbed; throats of boys cut
Event Details
Insurgents wearing masks and armed committed numerous outrages in different parts of Ireland, robbing servants and maltreating inhabitants. In one night, sixteen farms were attacked and robbed by an armed band in the county of Kilkenny. They shot several victims who resisted and stabbed animals and cut the throats of boys belonging to those marked for revenge. The perpetrators assumed the right to retribution for murders said to have been committed by officers of peace not sufficiently punished by authorities.