Red Indians, or any other barbarians you can think of, would not have been guilty of wreaking vengeance on the widow of an innocent murdered man, nor of endowing the wives of his assassins.
Here is another murder story.
A caretaker on an evicted farm on the property of Lord Cork, near Kanturk, was murdered for taking charge of it.
The evicted tenant had owed eleven years' rent.
Lord Cork had agreed to accept one year's rent in full acquittal, and so good a landlord was he, that the neighbours of the debtor offered to make up the amount to that sum.
The tenant firmly declined to pay, because he said another year would bring him within the statute of limitations.
So then he had to be evicted.
Two men were clearly identified as having perpetrated the unprovoked crime of assassinating the temporary occupant of the property, and were arrested.
The Gladstonian Attorney-General, in order to curry popularity, declined to challenge the jury, when the first man was put on his trial. Consequently three cousins of the prisoner were impanelled, the jury disagreed, and the wretch bolted to America that same night.
The second man, though less guilty, was duly tried before a challenged jury, and not only sentenced but hanged.