IRELAND'S TROUBLES
BLUE SHIRTS BLUDGEONED
ARMED AND MASKED MEN
(Eeceived October 30, 2 p.m.) LONDON, October 29. Armed men from.a motor-car entered, the home of a Blue Shirt, Denis O'Leary, at Bandon before dawn and shot him in the leg after battering down the door. O'Leary's father, who is chairman of the local Qreamery, was knock unconscious with a stick. The intruders, brandishing revolvers, dragged the son outdoors, assaulted and shot him, and decamped. He crawled inside when he recovered consciousness, and the father struggled to the Civic Guard station bleeding from, the head. Armed and masked men an hour later raided tho bungalow of a Blue Shirt, Hugh O'Keilly, at Innishannon, dragged him out and beat him severely about the body and head, necessitating his being taken to hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 10
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130IRELAND'S TROUBLES Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 10
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