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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17061, 4 February 1921, Page 7

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CALLOUS OUTRAGE. J.P. SHOT DEAD. CBt Cable—Press Aesociatioa— Copyright.) J (Australian and >*Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, February 2. Two masked men entered the houss of Robert Dixon, a Justice of the Peace, in Dunlavin (Wicldow), and demanded money. On his refusal to comply with the demand, tliey shot Dixon dead and dangerously wounded his son. A party of police was ambushed &t Drimoleague. Constable 0 Connor was shot dead, and another constable was seriously wounded. THE MALLOW TRAGEDY. (Renter's Tojeerams.l LONDON, February 2. Details of the Mallow shooting show that after Captain King and his wife were shot the police got out of hnncl end raided the railway station. J" killed two of the assailants and wounded eight railway employees. _ Sixteen of tho gang boarded an engine and escaped. It appears that the assassins fired a volley, at close quarters from behind a fence, into Captain King and his wife. The latter fell mortally wounded. The inspector, who was hit , in the chest, fell, but opened revolver J fire from the ground and blew his j whistle. . , . i (Captain King, a county- inspector of constabulary, was critically wounded and his wife shot dead at Mallow ran- j way station on Monday night, while' awaiting the mail from Cork.) DILLON AND SINN FEIN. ("Tho Time*.'") DUBLIN, February 1. ytr John Dillon, in a stattment with reference to the proposed- agreement among the Irish parties declining to irccept the programme and methods of the Sinn Fein, says he believes that many who voted for the Sinn Fein in 1918 have since changed_ their views, but the Government policy has been framed for the purpose of promoting disorder and strife, and to exasperate and madden the people. JVIr Dillon believes in the ultimate triumph of the Parnellito principles. Tho first necessity is for both sides to return to civilised methods. SENTENCE COMMUTED. (Received February 3rd, 7.30 p.m.) . LONDON, February 2. Joseph Murphy, whose execution was four times postponed, has had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life for murdering a soldier during an ambush at Cork. , i , - A ROAD MINE.® (Received February 3rd. 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, February 3. A party of rebels, in ambushing some auxiliaries near Ballinalea, employed a road mine, and blew up a motor lorry, killing two men, and wounding nine. Tliis id believed to be the first occasion on which the rebels used a mine.