July 28, 2011

1911

Cattle larcenyDistrict Inspector Egan charged Thomas Gillane and Patrick Cooney with the larceny of sheep, cattle, horses, etc, the property of John Gillane at Gort Petty Sessions.

D.I. Egan read John Gillane’s previous deposition in which he stated that owing to the treatment of his father by his brother, his father left their house four months previous to his death and lived with a man named John Kelly. His father then refused to give either the land, house or stock to Thomas Kelly, who was the eldest son, and instead willed £100. Thomas, not being satisfied with this, took the stock and sold them.

Mr. L.E. O’Dea, for the defendant, said that the brothers had now come to a settlement, and that the stock taken by Thos was now his, John Gillane taking £500 instead.

Mr. Glynn said he had the will proved now and neither of the brothers knew what was in the will at the time of the larceny of the stock, so that the stock belonged solely to the executors, and that it was he that was the cause of getting Thomas Gillane arrested when he heard of the larceny. Now as the agreement was signed, he hoped their worships would dismiss the case. The case was then dismissed.

Insane manAt Galway Assizes, a Tuam man was charged with wounding his wife by cutting her throat with a razor. Mr Fetherstonhaugh K.C., for the Crown, said the jury would have no difficulty in coming to the conclusion that the prisoner did the deed, but they would also find he was insane at the time. He suffered from a form of madness called melancholia, and was subject to all sorts of delusions. The jury found accordingly. And the prisoner was returned to Ballinasloe Asylum.

1936

Connemara poisonUnhappily, we are faced this year with a grave menace of a kind not previously experienced – at least on a large scale. A body styling itself ‘The Connemara Vermin Destruction Association’ formed in October, 1931, has, in the interests of game preservation, launched a campaign by the wholesale use of poisons, trappings and offers of money rewards, against all hawks and other birds that are accused of being destructive of game.

In its first yearly report, the association states that it has paid for the recovered corpses of 152 hawks, 217 crows, 328 magpies, 264 foxes and 120 badgers, and adds that a much larger number of these animals must have fallen victims to the poison.

Republican conventionDelegates from all parts of County Galway attended a Republican County Convention in the Town Hall, Galway on Tuesday.

Representatives of Sinn Fein and Cumann na Poblachta were present. The convention opened about 3 o’clock and continued until about 6 o’clock. After a luncheon interval the delegates reassembled at 7.30 and sat until about 10 o’clock, at which time a statement was issued to the Press.

In order to ensure complete agreement between Republican organisations, it was decided to put forward a panel of names selected by the local committee of Sinn Fein and Cumann na Poblachta to the joint committee in Dublin for selection and ratification.

Resolutions were passed unanimously condemning the drive against Republicans and the ill-treatment of prisoners in Arbour Hill.

Carnival WeekOver 1,600 visitors arrived in Galway on Sunday. Three hundred American tourists disembarked at the port from the Cunard-White Star liner, Seythia, and from the Hamburg Amerika-North German Lloyd liner, Berlin. A special excursion organised by the Third Order of St. Francis in Drogheda, brought 560 visitors to the city; 205 travelled from Broadstone (Dublin); 186 from Tullamore; 140 from Limerick and 179 from Claremorris. Thirty-six people left Galway by special train for Westport to climb Croagh Patrick.

The bookings for the week at city hotels are said to be well up to standard. Special regulations governing traffic have been drafted and a large force of Garda have been transferred to the city for the race days to assist in regulating the traffic.

For more, read this week's Connacht Tribune.