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Prisoners charged with shooting Mr. Hearn at Ballinrobe, Mayo, brought...for identification, 1881. Creator: William James Palmer.
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Prisoners charged with shooting Mr. Hearn at Ballinrobe, Mayo, brought before him for identification, 1881. John Hearn, '...wounded by the shots of two assassins...[was] Petty Sessions Clerk for the Ballinrobe district, and agent for the estates of the Hon. Mr. De Montmorency in that neighbourhood...In May last three of the tenants were evicted for nonpayment of rent...Mr. Hearn...was going home from the weekly Petty Sessions...Several shots were immediately fired, and he found he was wounded in the back. He...faced his assailants, who were two young men...He struck at them several times with his stick, until another shot from a revolver disabled his right hand...while at the same moment he received a wound in the right side. Then his assailants fled, leaving Mr. Hearn with four wounds, two of which were serious, one bullet having lodged in the right kidney, and one having injured the liver...He was able to walk to his own house, and to knock at the door. For some days his condition seemed very precarious, but he is now recovering...Two young men, John and Richard Nally...were arrested...after the attempt to murder...[and] Mr. Hearn...singled them out as being very like the men who fired at him...They have been committed for trial'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
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HRM25A43_337
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