School: Leamhach (Leigh)
- Location:
- Leigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máighread Ní Mhuireagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0553, Page 209
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- (continued from previous page)smash. Sadlier turned out to be a Swindler + forger - one of the greatest the world ever knew + committed suicide by poisoning himself in Hampstead Heath near London, to put himself beyond the reach of the law. But the farmers were ruined, their savings were gone + in crowds they came to Thurles + elsewhere with crow bars + tore down the bank in the hope of getting their money inside. Even the Poor: Law Unions hadn't money to buy the pauper's dinner the day the bank closed. The P.P. of Tipp had invested money he got to build Tipp Church. That is why the present spire is stumpy + short + not in keeping with the rest of the building.
The bank had 100 shareholders, 63 Eng + the rest Irish. Most of these too lost all they had being compelled to pay their share of the deficit. Sadlier gambled nightly at London clubs, lost there his own savings + then drew on the Tipp. Bank, till he drained its resources of over £200,000
