"BRUTAL CONSTABULARY."
X7NAT2CESSAIIY VIOLENCE .v v,; '"A£IiEGED. DELIBERATE CLUBBING AND KICKING. (Received September 2nd, 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 2. The "Daily Chronicle's" Dublin correspondent alleges that the police used unnecessary violence, and says that the exercise of a little tact-might have prevented the disturbances. The baton charges were in tho nature of reprisals for what.bad occurred on Saturday. Some of the police lost their heads and tempers. Mr Handel Booth says that at t&e time of Mr Larkin's arrest Sackville etreet was filled wi£h promenaders. Afterwards tho most brutal constabulary ever loose Upon a peaceful assembly rushed up Docon street like i men possessed. The kicking of prosI trate victims wae a settled part of the J police programme. None resisted, and I no attempt was made at rescue. There was no abuse of the oolioe. Most of the respectable people crawled away with bleeding heads. Tho "Daily Mail" says that the . police erred on the side of brutality. They deliberately waited for runaways and cliibind them as they ran. Photographs show this distinctly.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14761, 3 September 1913, Page 9
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