Cork woman suspected of being informer had hair hacked off with wool shears
Cork woman suspected of being informer had hair hacked off with wool shears What was in the news 100 years ago today, by Richard Forrest of Cork City Library Mount Joy prison. The chief clerk was held up on his way from the bank and robbed of a bag containing the wages of the prison employees. Richard Forrest Attack on woman The house of a woman farmer near Castletownbere was broken into by eight masked men, the Echo reported on Saturday, March 5, 1921. She was robbed of £35 and dragged into the yard where her hair was cut with wool shears. The motive appears to be that she visited the poli...
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