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vlin made a rush for the back door and away.

faving restored order, the constable left. reported to Chief Normansell, who

red him in keeping a watch on the place.

Devlin went home to his shack, but an ir later he returned armed with a olver. He was in a murderous mood.

opened the door, stepped into the wded room and, without ceremony, rted shooting into the mass of men about bar.

He fired four shots, two of them smashed > the body of Mike Walsh, a young hman from Waterford. He crumpled 1 fell. Another slug wounded Cain ihoney, and the fourth missed a human rk and embedded itself in the log wall the building.

As soon as the shots rang out, Norman-

and Carrington started for the place 1run. They pounced upon Devlin. The vers picked themselves up from the floor | climbed out from behind the bar and

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surged towards the police and their prisoner, erying “lynch him.” ~

It was with difficulty that Normansell and Carrington. protected Devlin from the infuriated mob and got him behind lock and key in the makeshift gaol.

It was eight days later—another his

- torically notable day, but one that the Irish

element did not like, the ‘Glorious Twelfth.” This anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne aroused the animosity of the Irish. Anything that could be done to thwart British law, order or institutions commended itself.

There was one thing that could be ‘done; an Irishman was in custody of a British gaol, he must be freed. It mattered not that they wanted to lynch him only a week before, freeing him on “the Twelfth” would be an act of contempt of hated British rule and an act of justice for “Ould Ireland.”

Const. Carrington gave Devlin his break- fast. He locked him in his cell and then went off to break his own fast. While he was eating a man ran to tell him that the prisoner had escaped.

The gaol was a rickety place. Devlin had managed to wrench off a board from the wall of his cell and with this he was able to spring the lock.

Hidden behind a thicket not far from the gaol, his compatriots had a horse and sup- plies waiting for him. In a minute or so after getting out of gaol, Devlin was on

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horseback riding as fast as he could down the pack trail to the American border.

Chief Normansell and Carrington made a hasty search of the vicinity before they dis- covered the tracks that indicated that he had escaped on a horse.

They tried to organize a posse to go after him, but only one man would volunteer—it was the Twelfth of July.

So Devlin, the killer of a fellow Irishman, made good his flight to the safety of United States.

A LAWYER was cross-questioning an Irishwoman in court with regard to the stairs in her house.

“Now, my good woman, please tell the court how the stairs run in your house.”

“How do the stairs run?” repeated the “Shure when I’m upstairs they run down, and when I’m downstairs they run up.”

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