BELFAST BOMBS

Northern Advocate, 15 March 1922, Page 5

BELFAST BOMBS

THROWN IN STREETS. TWELVE PERSONS HURT. WOMEN AND CHILDREN. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. Two bombs -were thrown in Belfast. One, in Foundry Street, injured twelve people, including four women and two young children. The other was flung in Sussex Street, without result. —A. and N.Z. SERGEANT SURROUNDED. RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. INSTANTLY KILLED. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 13. Seven or eight men surrounded Sergeant Clarke in Falls Road, Belfast, He was returning from a whippet meeting. They discharged revolvers into him, killing him instantly.—A. and N.Z. PROTECTION IN ULSTER. FRESH POWERS FOR GOVERNMENT. KING'S SPEECH PROMISES. (Received 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. The Ulster Parliament 'was opened to-day. The King's Speech promised measures conferring on the Government such additional powers as are necessary for the prevention of crime, the preservation of peace and the maintenance of order. —A. and N.Z. DEVILISH CRIME COLD-BLOODED MURDER MALICE FROM HELL LONDON, March 13. Mr Justice Wilson delivered a remarkable judgment at the Armagh Assizes relating to a compensation claim arising from the murder of John Cosgrove by Sinn Feinors last June. His Honour said he had never heard of a more hellish and devilish crime. Tin Sinn Feiners murdered O'Hanlon as a supposed spy, and then, because Cos grove, who was O'Hanlon's cousin, lifted and washed the body, the Sinn Fe'.ners forced him to bid adieu to his wife and family, and shot him cold-bloodedly outside his house.

Even the .Tows and the Romans die' not insult tho divine women who washed Christ's body. The murder of Cosgrove had been carried out in a spirit of malice that sprang fron* a bottomless hell, and it called to Heaven for revenge. Unless the people's spiritual loaders denounced such crimes, their palaces and temples should become the abode of foxes and owls. If he had thft power he would make the perpetrators, and their children to the fourth generation, serfs to Cosgrove's widow and her descendants. In conclusion, he increased the compensation from £1530 to £1750. ULSTER KIDNAPPINGS. GUILTY PARTIES SENTENCED. ELEVEN REPUBLICAN LEADERS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. Mr Justice Wilson, at the Fermanagh Assizes, sentenced eleven Sinn Fein leaders for wholesale kidnappings in Ulster to periods of penal servitude ranging from ten to five years.—A. and N.Z.