CAPTURED AT LAST.
MAN WHO WAGED* SOLITARY WAR. INCIDENT IN HUSH DISTURBANCES. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Oct. 5. Cork civic guards have at last captured Cornelius Healy, the one-eyed gunner, who was charged on two counts of attempts to murder policemen and other officers. During the disturbances, Healy was a one-man army, who perambulated the country waging solitary war. He carried on his shoulders a machine-gun, which was dubbed “Lizzie, 77 and he started a fight whenever he thought fit. He alertly eluded the police, owing to his phenomenal running power. He was captured without resistance when surprised by a posse of police which had surtvmnded his home.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 October 1928, Page 5
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