Ireland
THE SKEFFINCTON INQUIRY.
Press Association—Copyright, lieu tor’s Telegrams London, August 24
At the Skeffington inquiry the chairman read the unpublished report ( by Colthurst, after his arrest, wherein lie said he didn’t think the barracks were safe for desperate men like Skeffington, Dickson and Mclntyre. He heard that GOO Germans were marching on Dublin, and that to attack the Portobello barracks. Thinking reinforcements from England would not arrive in time to avert a. general massacre, and believing he had the power under martial law, he had the three prisoners shot, regarding it as a terrible duty. 'Major Koseborough, in charge ol the Portobello barracks in his evidence said he did not know of the executions until afterwards.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 24, 26 August 1916, Page 5
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117Ireland Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 24, 26 August 1916, Page 5
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