Galway In Days Gone By

1921

Mail car robbery

The Carraroe mail-car was held up at Kingston, Galway, at 4.30 a.m. yesterday (Thursday), and £300 in old age pension money was taken. The mail-car leaves Galway daily at 4 a.m. and takes the coast route via Spiddal and Inverin to Carraroe.

The driver had only proceeded beyond the cross-roads on the top of Taylor’s Hill when he was approached by a masked man wearing a fawn coat, and carrying a revolver, who told him to leave the car as he wanted to search the mails.

The driver was called back in half-an-hour, and told to proceed on his journey, but he found that all the old age pension money which he carried was missing.

The driver was interviewed last evening upon his return from Carraroe. He is in the employment of Mr. Patrick Irwin, of Eyre-street, who holds the contract for the conveyance of mails.

The driver’s story bears out the version given above. He added that the raider was of middle height, wore a soft hat and a rain coat, and carried something in his hand that appeared to be a revolver.

He emerged from the high wall within a few hundred yards from Kingston gate, ordered the driver to halt, and throw the mail bags on the road, as he wanted to examine them.

The driver did so, and proceeded a short distance. After fifteen or twenty minutes he was ordered to return. When he did so, the raider disappeared.

The driver took the mail bags into the car and returned to Galway, where the robbery was reported. He then proceeded to Carraroe.

Tragedy of an emigrant

We regret to announce the death of Miss Maggie Feeney, of Cappa, Barna, which occurred from pneumonia on Long Island, on her way to the United States.

Miss Feeney, with a number of other emigrants from the Barna district, left Galway some weeks ago. On the way over she, with a number of others, contracted pneumonia.

They entered a hospital at Long Island, where Miss Feeney quickly succumbed. Fortunately, the others are now on the way to complete recover.

There is no more tragic chapter in the history of these days than the steadily-rising stream of emigrants.

A Queenstown correspondent notes that amongst the thousands who left that port during the past fortnight, the great bulk of the young emigrants came from the West.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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