IRISH SITUATION
A DUBLIN OUTRAGE. ■ .
MAN SHOT IN STREET.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australiaa-N.Z. Cable Association.) .: Received Last Night, 10,80 o'clock. , , LONDON, March 27. , A shooting outrage is reported to' have taken place in the\; centre of ..;. Dublin yesterday evening.,. ' '■. \ . Three men waited for ah unknown / man> aged twenty-five, and*, while two i held' off the crowd, the third thrust' ' I a revolver into his f a6c and fired. The man fell, and. the assassin, fired two more bullets into the body when lying on the ground. ~ The three conspirators escaped amid the panic-stricken onlookers. It is suspected that it was a case ,'- of executing a police spy, similar to the deaths of Quinlisk at Cork and Byrne at Dublin. . It is believed that the Sinn Fciners discovered what the youth was doing, and decreed his execution. As they were unable to tempt him to a. semirural spot, they shot him in daylight in the crowded street,
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Wairarapa Age, 29 March 1920, Page 5
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156IRISH SITUATION Wairarapa Age, 29 March 1920, Page 5
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