Solicitors
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Carlow Solicitor Takes Down Two IRA Men in Career-Ending Gun Battle, 1923
From the Freeman’s Journal, 19 February 1923: “INDOMITABLE COURAGE RAIDERS FOUGHT BY CARLOW SOLICITOR TABLES TURNED INTRUDERS SHOT: ONE KILLED Sensational to an almost incredible degree is the account that has just come to hand of experiences that befell Mr… Continue reading
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Teenager Hoaxes Thirteen Belfast Solicitors, 1925
From the Weekly Telegraph, September 5, 1925: “Unlucky Thirteen – Belfast Solicitors Hoaxed An extraordinary hoax has been carried out on at least thirteen Belfast solicitors, as a result of which a person about whom the police are now enquiring,… Continue reading
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No False Telegram, 1928
From the Nottingham Journal, 11 September 1928: ‘An Irish solicitor, Mr NC Caruth, of Ballymona (Co Antrim) left a curious request in his will just proved. He directed that if any of his sons were abroad at the time of… Continue reading
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Solicitor Delays Discovery to Protect Morals of Lady Typists, 1906
From the Mail, 15 August 1906: “DUBLIN SOLICITOR AND HIS LADY TYPISTS In the Probate and Matrimonial Division, today, in the case of Fitzgerald v Fitzgerald, known as the Waterford matrimonial case, Mr Rice applied on behalf of the male… Continue reading
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Apprentice Solicitor Swordfight on Eve of Qualification, 1717
A very early Irish legal story, from Pue’s Occurrences, 31 January 1719: “About 3 quarters after 2 in the Afternoon, Mr Leigh, eldest Son of Richard Leigh Esq of the County of Westmeath, and one Mr Smith, Son to Mr… Continue reading