The Irish Rebels
MAYO TOWN SACKED. RAILWAY OUTRAGE FRUS. TRATED. • A GALLANT ACT. IBy Gable.—Press Association.—Copyright.] (Received 16. 2.5 p.m.) London, March 15. Two Free State soldeirs, Kavanagh and Magennis, were shot dead at Dub. lin. Irregulars raided Charlestown. County Mayo, wrecking most o th© shops. Free Stat© troops arrived, and fighting ensued, in which on© Nationalist soldier and on© rebel were killed and wire© rebels were captured. Irregulars seized an engine at Thomagtown and sent it forward at full speed. After it passed Athlon©, Brady, a member of the Railway Protection Corps, managed to spring on the footplate and stopped the engine within 500 yards of a passenger train coming in th© opposite direction. Brady, who removed his boots prior to making the spring, had his feet injured.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 78, 16 March 1923, Page 5
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