CRIME IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 157, 29 March 1920, Page 5

CRIME IN IRELAND

b ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING t. .- i ——•.'•:'-• ; jj MAN ASSASSINATED IN s DUBLIN STREET (Sy Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ' Utec. March 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 25. . • 3 Another mysterious shooting is reported I to have taken place in the centre of . Dublin yesterday evening.' Three men ' n waited for an unknown man, aged 25 s years. While two of them held ml the I o crowd the third thrust ,x- revolver into .. the victim's face, fired, and tho. man fell. ; Tho assassin fired two more bullets into ■ the body when it was lying on tho ; ground. Tho three conspirators escaped i amid the panic. Tho onlookers suspected i '• it was in case of executing a police spy, '- similar to the deaths of Quinlisk at Cork 0 nnd Byrne at Dublin. It is believed that l " Sinn Fciners discovered what -.he youth j S was doing and decreed Jiis execution. As ■ 0 they were unable to tempt him to a semi- ; 0 rural spot they shot him in daylight in " a. crowded street.—Aus.-N.Z. CaMe* Assn, ; 1 POLICE BARRACKS" BLOWN DP (Rec. March 28, 5.5 p.m.) ' . London, March 25. i A large party desperately, attacked and j overwhelmed the nolice barracks at Gor- j tatlea, Kerry. Three policemen were ' seriously injured. The raiders blew up ' the barracks, which were burned to the j ground. ' ' \ The telegraph lines have been cut | throughout County Kerry. A similar at-, \ tack was made on the same barracks a j Year ago, when two policemen were i killed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i DUBLIN MAGISTRATE ASSASSINATED ! i [' (Rec. March 29, 0.20 a.m.) j '" London, March 26. j L c The Dublin Magistrate, Mr. Alan 8011, ; '* has been assassinated.—Reuter. j I THE ALLEGeFeASTER PLOT | GERMAN ARMS FOUND ON VESSEL . IN ENGLISH PORT. J (Rec. March 28, 11.30 p.m.) . , ''■ j London, March 25.' j The "Evening Standard" states, in eon» j nection with Mr. A. C. Edwards's ques- j tion whether the Prime Minister had any I .. ir.forniation of' a rising planned for j t Easter Monday, that a foreign ship was' ! I detained in a northern port. Suspicions I r wore aroused when sho entered' the j 1 Thames and departed suddenly without '-, . discharging a cargo of lager beer from ! Germany. The Customs officers, acting.' ,; on information received, made a thor- : ! ougli search and found the lower tiers j of barrels contained German , machine- '. j guns, rifles and ammunition. The cap- j tain was unable to give a satisfactory , explanation, and was detained and ; I brought to London for further inquiries, j Another foreign captain was detained under suspicion. It is believed the chip-, j inents were directly arranged with the ) complicity of tho Sinn Fein leaders.— j Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i » ■