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Carlow County - Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP TM)
Pat Purcell Papers By kind permission of Mr Michael Purcell |
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White Gloves. The judge said he had been presented with a pair of white gloves to mark that there were no criminal cases occurring in Carlow to be tried and though he received them he could not accept them as an indication of the crimeless state of Carlow county. They were not a true indication of the peace of the county, they represented successive crime which had taken place. He believed the absence of cases to be tried was owing to people or victims being in sympathy with the present condition of things prevailing, or through intimidation. The gloves which the Sheriff gave him were white but he thought they should be of a more sombre hue. The Grand Jury were then discharged. [Note added by MP 2011. The "illegal" Sinn Fein Courts were sitting at this time]
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