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VICTIMS TIED TO TREES. Continuous night raids by police on houses, halls and inconspicuous places in back streets where men plot secretly have failed to scourge Belfast of its political underworlds. In the city, where the police are forced to carry out more raids than are made in any other place in Europe, the lawless political element remains active, despite the peril it runs. The city has had repeated evidence of its activity, both of disciplinary measures within its ranks and of penalties it imposes on those arraigned against it. Two men who had been flogged were found tied to trees within 100 yards of each other. The outrages followed the shooting of Ex-Warder William Smyth, who is in hospital so seriously ill that doctors are afraid to operate for the extraction of four bullets.
The outrage on the two men also follows that committed on sixteen-year-old John Logue, of Seaforde street, who was chained to a lamp post and had tar poured on him. The men were discovered with cards slung across their shoulders on which were scrawled notices warning them to beware.
Police headquarters stated that neither of the men had made any complaint of being assaulted or chained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 9
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