THE PENALTY PAID.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1922, Page 5

THE PENALTY PAID.

BY SIR H. WILSON’S MURDERERS. SCENE OUTSIDE GAOL By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, August 10. Sir Henry Wilson’s murderers were executed separately at eight o’clock in Wandsworth Prison. Fifty Irish men and women, led by a lay preacher, assembled outside an hour before the execution. Thev sang hymns and recited pravers for the condemned men’s souls. The praying crowd, which included relatives of the murderers, formed a pathetic picture. Women held aloft the Republican flag and the preacher carried a lighted candle around the kneeling group. Uniformed policemen were present, but there was no untoward incident. Dunn and O’Sullivan met death bravely.

Two brothers and two sisters of Dunn, three sisters and a brother of O’Sullivan, were among the crowd and joined in prayers, but, shortly before eight o’clock, they quickly withdrew. When the prison bell tolled, the Irish men and women in the crowd dropped on their knees, and someone began to sing ‘‘Wrap the Old Green Flag Around Me.” Notice of the execution was posted on the prison door half-an-hour later. The leaders of the crowd were the first to read it. They immediately sank on their knees and remained praying for some minutes. The murderers were taken from their cells simultaneously, and met a yard or two from Hip cr.<-ffn!d. A smile of recognition and en«iour«e-»mer* passed between them. Then O fculK . au went to death.