FREE MURDER.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1920, Page 5

FREE MURDER.

MANY POLICE KILLED. A CAMPAIGN OF OUTRAGES. PUBLIC ASSIST MURDERERS. By Talegrapb.—Press Assn. CopjTlgtt. Received Nov. 4, 8 p.m. London, Nov, 4, An intensive campaign of murder against the Irish constabulary since Sunday has already resulted in seventeen being killed, seventeen wounded, find at least seventy being fired at. The outrages have been Bpread over a wide area, and have been of a most cold-blooded character. Constable Maxwell went into a pnblichouse with a friend, and four masked men followed and shot the constable dead. Seven men were present, none of whom wised a hand to defend the constable. Constable McCarthy went for a cycle ride, and his body was found stuck into a drain, stripped practically naked. Sergeant Fulton was killed in the streets of Ballymote. He was surrounded by a dozen men, who fired a number of shots at short range, and who then escaped by mingling with the crowd in the street. )

It is believed in some quarters that the Irish people sympathise with the murder campaign, which is so embittering the constabulary and the soldiers, and is increasing reprisals. Though the murderers must be known to scores of people none assist the police to track the muderers or warn them of danger. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable' Assn.