3-028-520 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches from Ireland: a Meath country gentleman walking in his park, 1870. View '...at Balrath, in the county of Meath, the residence of Mr. Nicholson, a large owner of land, who was fired at, near his own house, and his coachman killed by the assassin's bullet, intended for Mr. Nicholson, four or five months ago. Since that attempt upon his life, Mr. Nicholson has had a force of armed police constantly stationed at his house. He seldom ventures beyond the limits of his own park, and whenever he takes a walk he carries a loaded rifle, and is protected by a constable on each side of him, with two more constables behind, all with their carbines at full cock. If he goes along the high road, he is followed by a party of armed policemen in a car, with a short ladder by which to scale any wall over which the assassins might escape pursuit. Another land-murder was perpetrated last Monday night in the neighbourhood of Thurles, where Patrick Kirwan, caretaker for Mr. Clarke, at Holycross, was attacked by several men and beaten to death. He had been employed in the eviction of some tenants. Three men are in custody on suspicion of the crime'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.