Waterford News 14 December 1866
Arrest
of a National Schoolmaster
A man named
William Carroll, national schoolmaster at Ring, whilst drunk in Dungarvan on
Saturday night last, made use of seditious language in the public streets,
shouting at the top of his voice for the Fenians, that [James] Stephens was in
Ireland, and that he knew it, and that he has a Fenian himself.
This
misguided fellow was cautioned several times to desist from using such
expressions and to go home , but the more he was cautioned the more he showed his determination, until
at length he was arrested by the constabulary, and brought before Captain W F
Barry, R.M., who committed him to the bridewell, for further examination. I am
informed he has a wife and four children depending on him, and he must be a
very foolish man to remain in town conducting himself in so bad a manner
amongst the peaceable inhabitants, who never sympathised with this deluded and
misguided class of persons, whose object is not national but freedom spoilation,
plunder, and destruction.