SINN FEIN MURDER

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 32, 2 November 1920, Page 7

SINN FEIN MURDER

YOUNG MAN CONDEMNED TO DEATH

GOVERNMENT DECLINES TO GRANT REPRIEVE

By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrlgM (Roc. November 1, 7.10 p.m.) London, October '31. Kevin Barry, an eighteen-j-ear-old Sinn Feinor, has been condemned (o death for murdering a Boldier in Dublin. Ho was discovorcd under a lorry witli an autoaintio pistol in Lis hnnd after a volley had been fired, killing three soldiers, one of whom was aged nineteen and another twenty. He will bo hanged to-day unless ho is reprieved. Archbishop Walsh and the Lord Mayor of Dublin interviewed Viscount French and • pleaded for a reprieve on. the ground of Barry's age. Hundreds are praying outside Mountjoy Gaol to-night.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn (Rec. November 1, 8.45 p.m.)

London, Novoinber 1. Mr. Lloyd George, at midnight, informed the Lord Mayor of Cork that the Government declined lo reprieve Barry, who is a medical student, and the first Sinn Feiner to be convicted of murder.— Aus.-N.Z Cablo Assn. ENROLMENT OF~~SPEC[AL CONSTABLES FIRST APPLICATION OP GOVERNMENT'S NEW SCHEME. (Rec. November 1. 5.5 p.m.) London, October 31. A proclamation has been issued authorising the enrolment of special constables in Belfast and the County of 'Tyro'ne. This is the first application of the Government's new 6cheme under which 10,000 will be required in Belfast. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.