FIRE MOURNS
EXECUTION OF RICHARDS AND BARNES PLEAS For mercy rejected. STATEMENT BY REPRIEVE COMMITTEE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) ' LONDON, February 7. Eire is mourning the execution of Barties and Richards. Sports fixtures have been cancelled and cinemas and theatres closed. The Cork Harbour Board flew flags at halfmast and observed a minute’s silence. 1 The condemned men walked together to the scaffold and died simultaneously on gallows erected side by side. The Dublin Reprieve Committee, in a statement, said England has rejected pleas for mercy and has shown that she cares nothing for goodwill in Ireland. She is equally contemptuous of opinion of all sections of the Irish people.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 6
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114FIRE MOURNS Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 6
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