PRISONER’S PROTEST
Irish Death Sentence
MILITARY TRIBUNAL London, July 21. A military tribunal passed its first sentence of death in seven years, when it sentenced to hanging Michael Conway, who was employed at a garage, for the murder of John Egan, at Dungarvan, on April 26. Conway refused to recognise the court. He did not call witnesses and was not represented legally. He said: “1 expected the verdict from such a packed tribunal of traitors, but it is unjust. I did not participate in the murder. Mr. McEntee. Minister of Finance, deliberately prejudiced my case when he declared on June 21 ‘regarding the murder of Egan you will get proof in a few days. It will be a sorry day for those responsible.’ Thar proves that the Fianna Fail sentenced me last month. The Government had to find a victim to save Its face.” The evidence showed that fingerprints found on an abandoned motor car were Conway’s. His fingerprints were recently partially destroyed.
It was reported by cable that a number of men on the night of Sunday, April 26, drove to the home of Egan, and riddled him with machine-gun bullets.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 254, 23 July 1936, Page 9
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192PRISONER’S PROTEST Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 254, 23 July 1936, Page 9
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