ARMS POSSESSION
FREE STATE TRIAL IRONICAL TURN OF FORTUNE. (United Prei* Association—fly ElectrW Telegraph—Copyright.) , (Received this dav at 12 noon). , . _ LONDON, May 3. A prominent Irish ...Republican Thomas Barry ; summoned before the military tribunal on a charge of possessing a machine gun and, 384 rounds of revolver ammunition, to recognise the court’s jurisdiction on any charge whatever, especially in respect to possession of arm s which were. the property of the Republicn Army. Barry who was director of operations in the. I.R.A. civil war,, declared: 1 “It is ,a damnable; scandal, that tli© executive council should place me on trial before officers of an army which I once tried to wipe out at the .. executive’s instigation.”
Barry was sentenced to, a, year* • of which he will serve only three, months if lie enters into .recognisances ,of . £IOO to keep., the peace for .two .years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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