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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER XVI
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His idea of toleration with respect to others seems to be toleration for everybody except the unhappy wretches who may happen to be for the moment doing any practicable service in the Irish cause.
NOTE O.
BOYCOTTING BY "CROWNER'S QUEST LAW." (Vol.ii.p.

312.) The following circumstantial account of this deplorable case of Ellen Gaffney preserved here, as I find it printed in the _Irish Times_ of February 27, 1888.
"In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, the Lord Chief-Justice (Sir Michael Morris, Bart.), Mr.Justice O'Brien, Mr.Justice Murphy, and Mr.
Justice Gibson presiding, judgment was delivered in the case of Ellen Gaffney.

The original motion was to quash the verdict of a coroner's jury held at Philipstown on August 27th and September 1st last, on the body of a child named Mary Anne Gaffney.
"The Lord Chief-Justice said it appeared that Mary Anne Gaffney, the child on whose body the inquest was held, was born on the 23d July, and that she died on the 25th August, 1887.

A Dr.Clarke, who had been very much referred to in the course of the proceedings, called upon the local sergeant of the police, and directed his attention to the body, but the sergeant having inspected the body, came to the conclusion that there was no need for an inquest.

The doctor considered differently, and the sergeant communicated with the Coroner on the 26th August, and on the next day that gentleman arrived in Philipstown.


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