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New Zealand Tablet, 13 October 1921, Page 7

*Mr. Mosley (House of Commons, November 25, 1920) asked the Chief SecretaVy for Ireland whether Mrs. Eileen Quinn, of Kiltartan, Co. Galway, was killed by a shot fired from a passing police lorry on .November l’ 1920, while sitting on a wall in broad daylight with child in her arms; whether he will state the distance - between this wall and the road from v which the shot was fired; whether the position of Mrs. Quinn at the time she was shot was in full view of the road'; whether the police occupying the lorry in question were called as witnesses at the court of inquiry; how many rounds of ammunition were fired by the occupants of this lorry in the course of their journey; and how far away was * the nearest point at which murders of soldiers and policemen, had occurred to the scene of Mrs. Quinn’s death. ■v',:'. Sir H. Greenwood; A military • court, of inquiry was held into this deplorable affair and found that the cause .of death was misadventure. I am not prepared to reopen the, inquiry by entering into a discussion of points of, evidence all of which were fully considered by the court. (toe. cit., vol. 135, cols. 619-620.) ■ ,

to lift up my trousers. When I got outside my hands y were • tied lip again, and the straps fastened round my neck and face. Five or six soldiers hit me." Torture Before Hanging.—An attested copy was submitted to us of the following deposition alleged to have been made by Kevin Gerard Barry, medical student, hanged for alleged participation in an attack on the Imperial British forces: •'County of the City of Dublin to wit: "I, Kevin Barry, of 58 South Circular Road, in the Co. of the City of Dublin, medical student, aged 18 years and upwards, solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: "(1) On September 20, 1920, I was arrested in Upper Church Street, in the City of Dublin, by a sergeant of the 2nd Duke of Wellington's Regiment, and was brought under escort to the North Dublin Union, now occupied by the military. I was brought into the guardroom and searched. I was then removed to the defaulters' room by an escort with a sergeant-major. The latter and the escort belonged to the Ist Lancashire Fusiliers. I was then handcuffed. "(2) About a quarter of an hour after I was placed in the defaulters' room two commissioned officers came in. They both belonged to the Ist Lancashire Fusiliers. They were accompanied by three sergeants of the same unit. A military policeman who had been in the room since I entered it, remained. One of the officers asked my name, which I gave. He then asked for the names of my companions ..in the raid or attack. I refused to give them. He tried to pursuade me to give the names, and I persisted in refusing. He then sent a sergeant out of the room for a bayonet. When it was brought in,,the sergeant was ordered by the same officer to point the bayonet at my stomach. The same question. as to the names and addresses of my companions was repeated, with the same result. The sergeant was then ordered to turn my faceto the wall and point the bayonet to my back. I was so .turned. The sergeant then said he would run the bayonet into me if I did not tell. The bayonet was then removed, and I was turned round again. P "(3) The same ..officer then said to me that if I persisted in my attitude he would turn me the men in the barrack square, and that he supposed I knew what that meant with the men in their present temper. I said nothing. He ordered the sergeants to put me face down on the floor and twist my arm. I was pushed down on the floor after my handcuffs were removed by the sergeant who went for the bayonet. When I lay on the floor, one of the sergeants knelt on the small of my back, the other two placed one foot each on my back and left shoulder, and the man who knelt on me twisted my right arm, holding it by the wrist with one hand while he held the hair with the other to pull back my head. The arm was twisted from the elbow joint. This continued, to the best of my judgment, for five minutes. It was very painful. The first officer was standing near my feet, and the officer who accompanied him was still present. "(4) During the twisting of my arm the first officer continued to question me as to the names and addresses of my companions, and also asked me for the name of my company commander and any other officer T knew. . "(5) As I still persisted in refusing to answer those questions, I was let get up, and I ■, was again handcuffed. A civilian came in, and 'he repeated the questions, with the same result. He informed me that if I gave all the information I knew T could get off, I was then left in the company of the military policeman, the two officers, the three sergeants, and the civilian leaving together. "(6) T could certainly identify the officer who directed the proceedings and put the questions. I am not sure of the others, except the sergeant with the bayonet. My arm was medically treated by an officer of the Roval Army Medical Corps attached to the North Dublin Union the following morning, and by the prison hospital orderly afterwards for four or five days. "(7) I was visited by the court-martial officer lastnight, and he read for me the confirmation of sentence of death by hanging, to be executed on Monday next, and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believeing same to be true, and by virtue of the Statutory Declaration Act, 1835. > " Declared and subscribed before me at Mountjoy Prison, in the County of the City of Dublin, October 26, 1920. '■'•■>■';'. Miles Keogh, "A Justice of the Peace in and for the said County. " Kevin Gerard Barry." : ' ..;. An officer of the Cameron Highlanders Avas in charge of the party that murdered the Buckley boy, a handcuffed prisoner. Inspector Cruise led the party that terrorised Galway and murdered Walsh. Testimony has shown that Inspector Smyth and Generals Lucas and Deasey ordered

indiscriminate and summary slaying of Sinn Feiriers, -who comprise over eighty per cent, of the whole population. , (To be continued.)