Misc: Outrages in the Bansha Dist. 1 Oct - 20th Nov 1837

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OUTRAGES IN THE BANSHA DIST. 1 OCT - 20TH NOV 1837

12th Oct. On this evening, between the hours of Six and 
Seven o'clock, two men were returning from the market of 
Tipperary. They were waylaid at the Hand of Thomastown, 
Parish of Kilfeacle, by five men who severely beat them. Two 
of the said party were arrested on the same night by 
Constable LALOR, and were fully identified by the persons 
who had been beaten.

22nd Oct. On this morning a notice was found posted on the 
lands of Gralla, Parish of Bansha, threatening a man named 
PATRICK FOGARTY if he harboured a strange woman in the 
employment of Mr. W. Baker in his house.

26th Oct. In the evening, about 8 o'clock, a man named JAMES 
CURRY was violently assaulted, and severely fractured on the 
head, convenient to his habitation in the Village of Golden, 
where a fair was held the same day, by two men named WILLIAM 
DWYER and MICHAEL DALTON, who immediately absconded. JAMES 
CURRY died in the Cashel Infirmary on the 8th Nov.

12th Nov. About the hour of 5 o'clock in the morning a shot 
was maliciously fired into a Bed room Window of the house of 
RICHARD GRADY, of Guitavoke, Parish of Clonbeg. No cause 
assigned.

12th Nov. The house of JAMES DALY of the same place was 
attacked, supposed by the same party, who broke the bed room 
window and fired several shots convenient to his house. No 
cause assigned either.

12th Nov. On this night, about the hour of 11 o'clock, the 
house of a farmer named DENIS MURPHY, of Foxford, Parish of 
Bansha, was entered by three armed men. Two of them were 
disguised, who after a search for MURPHY, and finding him 
absent, lay in wait convenient to his dwelling until he 
returned, when he was pounced upon by these merciless 
Assassins, who, after breaking his head to atoms, fired a 
shot which broke his leg. The cause assigned for this 
outrage is that MURPHY had distrained some effects belonging 
to Tenants on his on lands held under a lease of his own 
life.


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