SIR H. WILSON’S DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 18044, 11 August 1922, Page 6

SIR H. WILSON’S DEATH

MURDERERS EXECUTED.

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LONDON, August 10. Sir Henry Wilson’s murderers (Dunn and O'Sullivan) have been executed. —A. and N.Z. Cable,

SCENE OUTSIDE THE PRISON

LONDON, August 10. (Received August 11, at 11.30 a.iu.)

Sir Henry Wilson’s murderers were executed .separately at 8 o’clock in Wandsworth Prison. Fifty Irishmen and women, led by »v lay preacher, assemblers outside an hour before the time fixed for Die execution. They sang hymns and recited prayers for the men s souls. The praying crowd, winch included relatives of the murderers, formed a, pathetic picture. The women field aloft the Republican Hag. The'preacher carried a lighted candle around the kneeling group. Uniformed policemen were plpsent, but there was no untoward inoiDimn and O’Sullivan met death bravely. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

(Received August 11, at 1.5 p.m.) Two (brothers anal two sisters of Dunn, and three sisters and a brother of 0 Sullivan were among the crowd, and joined m the prayers; but shortly before 8 o clock they quietly withdrew. When the prison 'boll tolled'the. Irish men and women in the crowd dropped on their knees, and someone began to sing ' Wrap_ the Old Green Flag Around Me. 1 A notice of the execution was posted on the prison door half an hour Inter. The leaders m the crowd were the first to read it, and they immediately sank on their knees and remained praying for some minutes. The murderers were taken from the colls simultaneously. They met a yard or two from the scaffold. A smiue of recognition and encouragement passed between them, and then O’Sullivan went to his death—A. and N;Z. Cable.

At tlio trial of Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sullivan, when asked, to plead, both replied : 1 I admit* shooting Sir Henry Wilson.” , , x Mr Justice Shearman refused to allow Dunn to read a statement to the jury. It was, said His Honor, merely political propaganda. After the jury had returned a verdict of guilty, Dunn said he was proudly conscious of being an Irishman. “My motive for killing Sir Henry Wilson was no different from those animating men in the Europcan war. lam no mean assassin. I received no money for this business.” Dunn then asked that sentence bo postponed for fourteen days in order that his motives might bo judged by . a Court of Arbitration, which dealt with rights and wrongs. They had rid the human world of a scourge. O'Sullivan, folding Jus arms, exclaimed in a loud voice: “What I have done is for Ireland, and for Ireland I am proud to die.”