SINN FEINISM

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1920, Page 7

SINN FEINISM

THE CORK TRAGEDY

MB. MACCURTAIN'S DEATH

CITY DRAMATICALLY MOVED,

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f AUSTRALIAN • NHTT ZEALAND CADLB A6SOOIATION.I LONDON, 21st March.

Five bands and a procession a mils long participated in the removal of Mr. Mac Curtain's body from his late home in Blackpool, a suburb of Cork, to the City Hall, where it is lying in state, dressed \n the uniform of the Irish Volunteers. Thousands of people inspected the body to-day. Sinn Fein volunteers are acting as a guard. All places of amusement in Cork were closed on Saturday. The city will observe Monday as a general holiday. An inquest was opened and [ adjourned. No police were present. The solicitor for the next-of-kin requested that no ex-policemen should be allowed to serve on the jury.

[Mr. Mac Curtain, the Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork, was murdered in atrocious circumstances in the middle of the night. Several disguised men knocked ■at the door and were admitted by Mrs. MacCurtain. They held her down, pulled her husband out of his bedroom, and shot him at the head of the stairs, and then escaped. Another attempt upon a leading Sinn Feiner was reported yesterday, and a system of counter-outrage appears to have been instituted.]