Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. The Fenians Had No Grá for the Women (continued)

   

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   McHugh and Weldon (Fenians) got 18 months imprisonment in Roscommon Jail
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   did not deserve being shot.
   Lanty C____ a pervert, informed on McHugh and Weldon, they were arrested for the shooting, the crime could not be proved against them, but for being Fenians, they got eighteen months in Jail. There was a grand song composed about them. "Eighteen months in Jail, Weldon and McHugh I hope they will come through"
   In the song it was told how Lanty was concealed behind a tree in Cushla wood acting the spy.

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   The fate of an Informer.
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   Lanty _____ was taken by the British Government to London (for safety) and after being kept three years in the Tower of London the British Government gave him a free passage out to Australia and a large ranch of land in payment for information given by him. The Fenians followed him to Australia and shot him on his own ranch.
   In my young days there

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