THE IRISH TURMOIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17696, 3 February 1921, Page 5

THE IRISH TURMOIL

MABTIAL LAW OPERATES.

EXECUTION OF A FARMER.

OFFICER'S WIFE SHOT DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 9.30 p.m.) A. and N-Z. LONDON, Feb. 1. A farmer wa=. shot at Cork for carrying firearms. This i 3 the first execution that has taken place since the imposition of martial law in the South of Ireland. Captain King, a county inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was critically wounded and his wife shot dead at the Mallow railway station on Monday night when they were awaiting the mail train from Cork- Their assailants also fired on the police when they arrived at the station half an hour later. The police replied, and killed one civilian and wounded eight.

A man named Leonard, a taxicab driver, is being tried by court-martial on a charge of having murdere.d District-In-spector Swanzy, who was shot on August 27 at Lisburn, near Belfast. It was alleged that Leonard had driven away the men who shot the inspector. During one of the, recent raids in the South of Ireland the military came ccross a house which had apparently been used as a secret meeting place. They discovered secret, doors and false walls concealing corridors. There was also a revolving wardrobe operated by hidden springs giving access to a hidden chamber, which had been apparently used as a council chamber. Nine concealed doors gave exit on to the garden. Nobody was found in the house, and it is believed that thtere still exists a secret tunnel that has not yet been unearthed. The military burned down the building.