IRISH POLICE HEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 9

IRISH POLICE HEAD

MURDER IN COLD BLOOD

REPUBLICAN VENGEANCE

JUDGE'S COMMENT

United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, 21st March.

Superintendent Curtih, of the Irish Free' State Police, who recently conducted the case against four men accused of illegal drilling, was shot dead outside his house in Tipperary. He left his office late in the evening and was found dyiDg, riddled with bullets, outside his door by his wife an hour later. The police are scouring the country. Judge'Sealy, in opening the Clonmel Circuit Court, declared it was probable that the murder was the result of the illegal drilling case. "It is' distressing that there are still criminals left in Ireland who will murdef a man in cold blood because he has carried out his duty," said the Judge. Superintendent Curtin was aged 30, and had been married for less than a year. .!

Surprised -while engaged ia military drill at a farmstead near Cape White, Tipperary, in the night time early in February, twenty Irishmen fled, pursued by detectives, who at daybreak secured four. They were charged with military drilling for purposes treasonable towards the State. A search in the vicinity of the drillground revealed revolvers and ammunition. One of the accused, turning State evidence, said that they belonged to the Irish Bepublican Army.