BLUE SHIRTS BEATEN
(Press Assn.—
ARMED AND MASKED MEN COMMIT BRUTAL ASSAULTS TWO HOMES RAIDED
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
London, Oct. 29. Armed meif from a motor-car entered the home of a "Blue Shirt," Denis O'Leary, at Bandon before dawn and shot him in the leg after battering down the door. O'Leary's father, who is chaiiqnan of the local creamery, was knoclced unconscious with a stick. The intruders brandishing revolvers, then dragged the son out of doors, where they assaulted him and shot him and then decamped. The father struggled to a civic guard station bleeding from his nead. Armed and masked men an hour later raided the bungalow of another "Blue Shirt" (IJugh O'Reilly), at Innishannon. They dragged him out and beat him severely, necessitating his removal to the hospital.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 676, 31 October 1933, Page 5
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130BLUE SHIRTS BEATEN Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 676, 31 October 1933, Page 5
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