To the Editor of the Champion. Sligo, Sept. 21, 1881.
Dear Sir, – Allow me, through the medium of your influential journal to call attention to a matter which has lately caused a great deal of anxiety in this locality, with regard to some mysterious knocking at a local bailiff’s house named Fletcher, in the employment of C.C.B. Whyte. It appears that this knocking was goin g on for about a month, there being several shots fired about his house, with danger to the lives of the public. The police were watching every night of course.
The Land League was charged with the crime, but the perpetrators has been taken in the fact, which is no less than his own servant girl.
It appears that this bailiff wanted police protection, which I believe was forthcoming only for the discovery only made. They now say her father was paid by the Land League to get her to do this. At a meeting of the Executive of this branch, a resolution was passed condemning this statement as false and calmuniaing, and protesting against his action, in striving to bring the country under a bad repute.
Sligo Champion, 1st October 1881.