IRISH AFFAIRS.
REFUSING TO SUBMIT TO PRISON REGULATIONS. DISTURBANCE IN COURT. London, Jan. 10. W. E. Harrington, who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment f>r reporting the proceedings at a meeting of the N-itional League, refused to submit to the prison regulations, and had his moustache shaved off by force af’er violent resistance. J. R. Cox, and D. Kilbride, M’s P., been summoned on a charge of inciting. T. Coudon, member for East Tipperary, and the Mayor of Clonmon, on being cited a charge of conspiracy, marched to Court in his official robe, and took hig gea s on the bench in his capacity of Mayor. Thousands of people lined the streets and afterwards crowded into the C.-urt. In consequence of the disorderly behaviour ofthe mob the Court was cleared and the proceedings adjourned for a week. Mr O’Brien, addressing the National League Convention at Kiidare, said the absence of crime in Ireland was defeating the coercive policy of Mr Balfour.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 246, 12 January 1889, Page 2
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161IRISH AFFAIRS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 246, 12 January 1889, Page 2
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