IRISH CRIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1922, Page 5

IRISH CRIMES.

TERRORISM CONTINUES. SEVERAL SERIOUS FIRES. BRUTAL MURDERS., fc,, ..—.J By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 24, 5.5 p.m London, June 23. A gang of armed men entered the Irish National Foresters’ Haji in Belfast during the afternoon, held up the caretaker, and sprinkled petrol and ignited the building, which was partly gutted despite the efforts of the fire brigade. Bombs were thrown into a draper’s premises at Raphoe, County Donegal, in the Free State territory, during the morning. The building, with the stock-in-trade, together with an adjoining hotel, was burned to the ground. A young man, formerly a special constable at Belfast, was taken out of the house where he was lodging, at Windgate, County Wicklow, and shot dead. Masked men held up a mail train from Belfast near Randalstown, seized the mailbags, and decamped. William Kirkwood, a Protestant manager of flourmills in Belfast, was murdered at midday outside the mills. * A gang recently raided the mills and shot two Protestant workers, one fatally. Lawless, an ex-soldier, aged 50, who was a harmless tailor with no politics, was in bed with his wife in Rutland Street, Dublin, when two armed men knocked at the door of the bedroom. The husband rose and opened the door, and his wife followed. The men said to her: “Come out! We will shoot you, too!” She did not believe they would shoot, and she turned to get some clothing. Immediately two shois were fired, and her husband cried: “My God, Mary, I’m shot!” and fell dead. The men then ran away. SOUTHERN ELECTIONS. A DIFFICULTY SETTLED. Received June 24, 5.5 p.m. London, June 24 The difficulty in connection with the mid-Cork election, owing to the tampering with Mr. Collins’ papers, has been settled. The matter has been left to the returning officer’s adjudication.