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Northern Advocate, 19 April 1923, Page 5

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OUTLAWS 7 HIDING PLACE. PROVING EFECTUAL. SEVERAL MORE CAPTURES. (Received 9.5 a.m.) LONDON", April 18. TLe Free State troops, who have maintained a continuous search for Do Valera, Dan Breen and other Irregulars who escaped after the engagement at Clonmel in which Liam Lynch ■was mortally wounded, to-dny captured two other rebels named Donoon and Wialshc. General Prout's forces are combing out the whole district. O'iConnell and Dalton, two notable Irregulars,' were captured at Powerstown.—A. and N.Z. DAN BREEN CAUGHT. A NOTORIOUS GUNMAN. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 18. The capture of Dan Breen has been effected. This Tias put the last important militant Republican out of the way. The dramatic arrest's have stirred Dublin, which sees the dawn of peace. It is doubtful if Breen's clever hid-ing-place would have been discovered only for his carelessness in leaving empty cigarette boxes on the ground. Breen was the deadliest gunman in Ireland. He was famous for his ability to shoot accurately with either hand. He shot two British officers in Dublin' at the height of the trouble which has led to guerrilla warfare since. Before joining the rebels he pursued the peaceful calling of a trackman on the railways. He used to walk in front of engines carrying a red flag.—A. and N.Z. *