FUNERAL FIRED ON.
ATROCITY IN BELFAST. ;By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.) London, May 16. At the funeral of Beattie, the murdered Belfast policeman, Sinn Feiners. without the least provocation, fired into the mourners following the coffin. Several persons were shot, and the clergy had a narrow escape. Women and children in tho streets were terror-stricken and fled screaming, or lay in heaps on the ground. Military police cars guarding the funeral turned and fired upon the attackers, who returned tho fire. A man named Fadden, who was concerned in. the firing, was pursued by the infuriated mob into a shop, where he was shot dead.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4592, 18 May 1922, Page 1
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