IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1920, Page 5

IRELAND.

DRAMATIC DUBLIN MURDER.

MAGISTRATE SHOT IN A TRAM. By Telegraph.—Press Asm.—CovyrlfM. London, March 26. Fuller details show that Mr. Bell'a murder was dramatic. He was going to his office from his home at Salthill, and entered the tram. A number of business men and others, apparently artisans and clerks, were inside. When the tram stopped at a busy crossing half-a-dozen passengers suddenly jumped on their feet and rushed Mr. Bell, who was reading a paper. A number of othei'3 on top of the tram descended, revolvers in hand, and joined in pushing Mr. Beil off the tram to a side street. Five revolver shots rang out, and Mr. Bell fell. Not a word was spoken, and the horrified passengers came to Mr. Bell's assistance. He was lying in a pool of blood, with one bullet in his head and others in ■!s body. -Mr. Bell was seventy years of age, and id been an official since the Land .eague days. He was usually accompanied by a detective. A guard of military rounded up suspected Sinn Feinere, and later arrested sis. Mr. Bell presided at the recent inquiry into the attempted assassination of Lord French. Four masked men at Ballinamore, County Leitrim, dangerously shot a young railwayman who was going to join the constabulary. The supposed spy who was murdered at Dublin on the 25th has been identified as Private Molloy, clerk at Military Headquarters, Dublin.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

HOME RULE BILL. [ MEASURE IN THE COMMONS. London, March W. In the House of Commons, Mr. J. I. Macpherson (Chief Secretary for Ireland) in moving the second reading of [the Home Rule Bill, declared that the secession of Ireland from the United Kingdom, wholly or partially, would never be tolerated. Mr. Bonar Law stated that he did not believe there was any chance whatever for self-government in Ireland upon the basis that outrages should be allowed to continue. SUSPECT ON HUNGER STRIKE. London, March 26. Mr. Bonar Law, in the House of Commons, refused to release Alderman O'Brien, who is hunger striking in Wormwood Scrubs prison. He said he had been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in a murderous conspiracy which had resulted in the death of many loyal subjects of the Crown. It would be deplorable if he died, but the Government had 'a responsibility to the nation in view of such murders as that of Mr. Bell