IRISH TERRORS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1922, Page 5

IRISH TERRORS.

A SHOCKING CRIME. A JUDGE'S INDICTMENT. CALL FOR REVENGE. By Telegraph.—Press Asnn.—Copyright. Received March 14, 5.5 p.m, London, March 13. Mr. Justice Wilson delivered a remarkable judgment at the Armagh Assizes, relating to compensation arising out of the murder of John Cosgrove by Sinn Feiners last June. Mr. Justice Wilson said he had never heard of a more hellish and devilish crime. Sinn Feiners murdered O’Hanlon as a supposed spy, and then, because Cosgrove, who was O’Hanlon’s cousin, lifted and washed the body, Sinn Feiners forced him to bid adieu to his wife and family, and shot him in cold blood outside his house. Even the Jews and the Romans had not insulted the divine women who washed Christ’s body. The mUraer of Cosgrove, he added, was carried out in a spirit of malice which sprang from a bottomless hell and called to heaven for revenge. Unless the people’s spiritual leaders denounced such crimes their palaces and temples would become the abode of foxes and owls. If he had power he would make the perpetrators and their children to the fourth generation serfs to Cosgrove’s widow and her descendants. In conclusion he increased the compensation from £1530 to £l7so.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

MURDER IN BELFAST. TWO BOMBS THROWN. Received March 14, 7.35 p.m. London, March 13. Seven or eight men surrounded Sergeant Clarke in Falls Road, Belfast, when returning from a meeting. They discharged their revolvers into him, killing him instantly. Two bombs were thrown in Belfast. One in Foundry Street injured twelve people, including four women and two young children. The other was flung in Sussex Street without result.