sole-piece

Updated: May 6, 2025

One of the Dublin officers closely examining the highway saw a heavy footprint in the coarse mud at the bottom of one of these pools. He had the water drawn off, and made out clearly, from the print in the mud, that the brogan worn by the foot which made it had a broken sole-piece turned over under the foot. By this the murderer was eventually traced, captured, tried, and found guilty. Mr.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)