Upon investigation, however, the surgeon refused to certify that he was unable to undergo the ordinary imprisonment in such cases made and provided.
The collapse of the resistance at this central point was followed by a general surrender.
After the capture of Tully's house, Mr.Tener writes to me, "I found it being gutted by his family, who would have carried it away piecemeal.
They had already taken away the flooring of one of the rooms." Thereupon Mr.Tener had the house pulled down, with the result of seeing a statement made in a leading Nationalist paper that he was "evicting the tenants and pulling down their houses." "Yesterday," Mr.Tener writes to me on the 9th of September, "I walked twenty-five miles, visiting thirty farms about Portumna.

Except in two or three cases, the tenants have ample means, and part of the live stock alone on the farms, exclusive of the crops, would suffice to pay all the rents I had demanded.

On the farms recently 'evicted,' I found treble the amount of the rent due in live stock alone." As to one case of these recent evictions, I found it stated in an Irish journal that a young man, who had been ill of consumption for two years, the son of a tenant, was removed from the house, the local physician refusing to certify that he was unfit for removal, and that he died a few days afterwards.

The implication was obvious, and I asked Mr.Tener for the facts.
He replied, "This young man, John Fahey, was in consumption, but did not appear to be in any danger.

Dr.Carte, an Army surgeon, examined him, and said there was no immediate danger.