IRELAND'S HEROINE.

# Transcription — The Evening Mail (Stockton, California), 1882-01-13, p.1 **Source**: The Stockton Evening Mail (Stockton, California), Friday, January 13, 1882, p.1, col. 2. Vol. IV—No. 132. **Status**: Complete. **Method**: Read against the page scan (`archive/pages/1882-01-13_evening-mail-stockton_p01/fullpage.jpg`) at 2.7-2.8x, names at 6x, starting from the tile-by-tile page reading of 20-21 Oct 2026. Square brackets `[ ]` mark editor's marks only. --- ## Page layout A seven-column front page: three columns of reading matter and four wide advertisement columns. **IRELAND'S HEROINE** fills the whole of column 2. Column 1 carries "The Evening Mail." publisher's notice and short items ("Abstemious Men", "The Most Ungrateful of Men", "The Boston Woman Abroad", "Diagnosing His Own Case"). The article has no Stockton comment of its own: it is a Dublin telegraph paragraph, a quotation from Henry George, and a long report credited to the Dublin *Express* of the Castletown eviction expedition. --- # IRELAND'S HEROINE. ## *PRETTY MISS REYNOLDS, THE LADY LAND LEAGUEIreland: movements, law & landIrish National Land League1879–1881The tenants’ organisation founded in October 1879, with Parnell as president and Michael Davitt as organiser, to resist rack-rents and evictions and win the land for those who worked it. Suppressed in October 1881.More in Key terms →R.* **Her Influence Over Men and Women—How She Prevented the Eviction of Tenants—At Last in Prison.** It is telegraphed from Dublin that Miss Reynolds, one of the leading members of the Ladies' Land LeagueIreland: movements, law & landLadies’ Land League1880–1882The women’s organisation, founded in New York by Fanny Parnell in 1880 and in Ireland under Anna Parnell in 1881, that ran the land campaign and relieved evicted families while the men’s leaders were in jail.More in Key terms → in that city, was charged in the Petty Session Court with inciting a tenant not to pay his rent, and was ordered by the Court to furnish bail to keep the peace. This she refused to do, whereupon the Justice sentenced her to prison for six months. This is what Henry George says of her: "Seeing that the almond is beginning to blossom in my hair sufficiently to allow me sometimes to make remarks which in younger men would be inadmissible, I once in visiting the League rooms ventured to compliment some of the ladies upon the good looks of the rosy-cheeked Land Leaguers there at work. 'Oh,' they replied, 'the prettiest of us all is not here! You ought to see Miss Reynolds! She is the handsomest of all! She is beautiful!' So inquiring about this lady who was voted by common consent the prettiest in the whole League, I found she was a highly-educated girl of about 19, an orphan, living with an aunt, but having property of her own. She took no part in the League until the League being suppressed and its leaders imprisoned she saw that the whole work devolved upon the women, and then she came forward and offered her services." And the Dublin *Express* (landlords' organ) has this upon the same subject: Whatever else may be said of the Ladies' Land League, one thing will be admitted, that Miss Reynolds, its representative, to-day made the West Cork eviction expedition a laughing stock and foiled them in their efforts to collect rents. She has, within a few hours, wrought a most remarkable change in the disposition of the people of these parts. On Tuesday and Wednesday the people were as mild as lambs and far more respectful, but she had scarcely been an hour in Castletown when they assumed the air of wolves. The little disturbance of last night, when the people collected around Miss Reynolds' hotel with tar barrels, and were dispersed by the police, only gave appetite for more fun. The expedition to-day was composed of seventy men of the Rifle Brigade from Cork, fifty men of the Thirty-ninth Regiment from Kinsdale, and thirty from Cork, under the command of Colonel Lloyd, with sixty or seventy police, under Sub-Inspectors Maxwell and Hill. Surgeon-Major McReery accompanied the military. The Sheriff (Mr. Gale) and his bailiff were in front. Mr. Warburton, R. M., who had supreme control, was accompanied by Herbert Gladstone, M. P., for Leeds, and son of the Premier. They left Castletown about 8 o'clock, and marched to Urrhan, nine miles distant. The Sheriff had scarcely left town when Miss Reynolds followed him on an outside car, and overhauled him at the house of Timothy Hanley. The Sheriff succeeded in getting in first, and he and Mr. Payne, Jr., closeted themselves with the tenant so as to make a settlement. Miss Reynolds, accompanied by a crowd of peasantry, male and female, cheering lustily, attempted to gain an entrance to see the tenant, but Mr. Warburton directed the police to ward off the intruders. When Miss Reynolds found herself foiled at the front door, she tried the back door, but Sub-Inspector Maxwell intercepted her there also by a few of his men. The conference between the tenant, his wife and the Sheriff occupied some minutes; and as the people quieted down, Miss Reynolds again intruded herself, and succeeded in gaining admission to the kitchen, where Mr. Gladstone, some bailiffs, policemen and a dozen relatives of the Hanley family were. Her first act after entering was to inquire for the tenant. A female volunteered "that he was in the room," and called out that Miss ParnellIreland: movements, law & landCharles Stewart Parnell1846–1891President of the Land League and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party; the dominant figure of Irish politics in the 1880s, brought down by the O’Shea divorce case in 1890.More in Key terms → wanted him. "Stop," quoth a bailiff, "and don't be shouting lies. If you say that again I will put you out." Miss Reynolds reproved the bailiff and announced, in a decided tone of voice, that she was Miss Parnell's representative and that that was all the same. Silence again prevailed, and in a few minutes she ordered some peasants present to go forth and preach "No Rent." Hanley was protected from such doctrine and he paid one year's rent out of three and promised to settle the balance in a short time. He was formally ejected by removing the fire and a few chairs, and reinstated as caretaker until he should have cleared off the arrears. The party then moved along a narrow and badly kept road to the house of Catherine Murphy. While the Sheriff's party were going by the road Miss Reynolds and her enthusiastic followers, who were momentarily increasing, cut through the fields, cheering as they went[,?] and heeding little the sloppy passages they took. Miss Reynolds won the race and collared the son of the tenant, a man of 40 years of age. She told him not to pay any rent, and she would undertake to build him a house, and supply him with every comfort he has at present. He suggested "What about the land?" and she replied that he could as well live in the League house, and the land would be all right. This was said in the presence of the expedition and the people cheered most lustily, and jeered at Mr. Gladstone, who was close by. Murphy was so much carried away by the enthusiasm of his neighbors that he affirmed he would not pay a penny, though he had arranged with Mr. Payne half an hour previously to do so. There was nothing for it but to throw the household effects out on the street, and this the bailiffs did while Mr. Gladstone and Miss Reynolds stood within a short distance watching each other's movements. Miss Reynolds stared Mr. Gladstone out of face, but he did not run off. The crowd amused themselves by cheering for Parnell, the Land League and Miss Reynolds, and making observations about Mr. Gladstone which were neither polite nor edifying. The rain here began to fall copiously, and the party had to trudge half a mile before gaining the main road. The crowd continued their conduct all along, and on the road, while Mr. Gladstone took his car to drive away, the people cheered derisively. He was accompanied on the car by Mr. Warburton, Mr. Payne and two armed policemen. Miss Reynolds also drove into town, and on the way met another lady Land Leaguer (a Mrs. Moore), who returned with her, as the evictions were abandoned for the day. *[Text checked against the page scan at 2.7-2.8x (names and doubtful marks at 6x), 21 Oct 2026, starting from the tile-by-tile page reading of 20-21 Oct 2026. In this scan n often prints like u ("Warburtou", "Gladstoue", "Urrhau"); read as n throughout.]*