DEATH SENTENCE ON TERRORISTS
TWO IRISH REPUBLICANS GUILTY OF MURDER (v»mj> paaaa tsaooivno*— coptriuht.i (Received December 15, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 15. For the first time since the Irish Republican Army began outrages terrorists werfe sentenced to death, Peter Barnes, aged 32, apd James Richards, aged 29, were sentenced to death for murder in the Coventry explosion on June 9. Joseph Hewitt and his wife and mother-in-law were found not guilty, but face other indictments. Counsel for the prosecution declared that "the paymaster in this case- might not be in Dublin, but might be further afield.”
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22895, 16 December 1939, Page 4
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