POLICE CHIEF SHOT.
Cold-Blooded Outrage at
Tipperary.
REVENGE MOTIVE SUSPECTED
DUBLIN, March 22
Superintendent Curtin', of the Irish Free State police, who recently conducted a case against four men accused of illegal drilling, was fatally shot outside his house in Tipperary.
Mr. Curtin left his office late in the evening and was found dying, riddled with bullets, outside his door by his wife an hour later. The police are scouring the country for the murderer.
Mr. Justice Sealy, in opening the Clonmel Circuit Court, said it was probable that the murder was the result of the illegal drilling case. It was distressing that there were still criminals left in Ireland who would murder a man in cold blood because he carried put his duty.
Deceased was 30 years old. He had been married less than a year.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 7
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