IRISH OUTRAGES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 196, 14 May 1920, Page 7

IRISH OUTRAGES

'■■ * - DARING ATTACK ON POLICEMEN j SHOT WHILE ENTERING A TRAMCAR By Telegraph-Press Assooiatlon-Copyrlglu (Rec. May 13, 11.30 p.m.). '' London, May 12. The shooting of the three policemen at Lower Road (Cork) was executed 1 with great daring. Tho men were pro- t ceeding to night duty and waited awhile s 011. tho pavement about eleven o'clock I for a tramcar. The instant the car * stopped' a deadly volley was fired. Sere geant Garvey and Constable Harring- I ton, who were boarding the car, dropped c dead. The other constable was wounded, but managed to reach the barracks t after being again wounded. Tho vol- T ley caused a panic amongst tho pas- E scngcrs and sniashed the car windows. . The conductor and one passenger had . the narrowest escape from bullets. The { assailants' fired ut a few feet distance. ' Some ; of them were ostensibly waiting 3 for the car.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A.6sn. ' farmerlhot dead' COUNCIL CANDIDATE FORCED TO ' ' ' WITHDRAW.'. (Rec. May 14, 1.50 a.m.). ' ] Dublin, May 12. A Meath farmer was shot dead, arid 1 ■' his ploughing horses also were 6hot. ( - Five men dragged m county council 1 candidate from his house at Stokestown, i j Roscommon. • measured him for a coffin < and dug a grave opposite his door. They f then; pointed revolvers at him, and fore- 1 , cd him to sign a withdrawal of his can- ] , dido hire —Router. ( \.. POLICEMEN ARRESTED.' , , ' London, May 11. • On a Coroner's wan'ant, the Irish au--1 thorities have, arrested three policemen 1 ' in connection with the shootings,at Mil-- : town Mnlbay—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. ' (The polico and-military were involv- | ed in collision with civilians in Miltown Malbay, County Clare. Three civilians ' ' were killed and nine wounded.] - •