Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. Lantry Informs (continued)

   

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   at Castlerea and at this meeting lots were cast as to who would do the shooting, and that Bernard McH_ and Weldon drew the black balls.
   Weldon and Bernard McH- were arrested on the charge of Murder. The two prisoners brought forward a number of Witnesses who swore they had seen and spoken to the accused men, to Weldon at the Fair of Frenchpark, and to Bernard McH_ at the market in Castlerea on the day and hour of the shooting.
   The two prisoners were found Not Guilty on the charge of murder.
   For being present at an unlawful assembly they were sentenced to 6 months imprisonment.
   Feelings ran high against Lanty C_ The Informer, so the British Government took him for safety to the Tower of London, where he was kept for three years when he was given a free passage to

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