It is reported from Tulla, County Clare, that as Mr Perry, agent to Mr Browne, J.P., was driving to Mass yesterday, he was attacked by four disguised men at Newgrove, some distance from Tulla, who fired at him, wounding him in the thigh, and shooting his horse dead. On being medically attended to Mr Perry was found to have suffered much from loss of blood, and he is stated to be in a precarious condition. About four years ago he was attacked, it is stated, in the same place, and was under police protection for two years. In connection with the present occurrence a man has been arrested.
A Press Association telegram states:--Mr W Perry, house agent, was driving to Tulla, Co. Clare, yesterday morning to attend Mass, when four armed men pulled him off the car. One of them fired a revolver, the bullet passing through Mr Perry's thigh. They then shot the horse dead and decamped. Mr Perry was found lying on the road, and his injuries appeared so serious that the Sacraments were administered to him. The small bone of the leg is fractured and the sinews much lacerated. Two men have been arrested, John Davis, farmer, and Patrick Simmons, labourer. It appears that Mr Perry as agent for his brother-in-law, Mr Thomas Brady Browne of New Park, had occasion last week to proceed against several tenants at Ennis Quarter Sessions, and obtained decrees against them. These proceedings are supposed to have been the occasion of the outrage.
