REVENGE FOR LASH.
I OFFICER SHOOTS PRISONER.. I AN UNHINGED MIND. ../ ..:,-■. * : \.-~~>[ .-;.•: LONDON. April 7. Eemarkable evidence was given -at the inquest : at' Tralee on i John Conway, a civilian prisoner, who was shot dead o« February y24 Awhile in military custody int the Tralee workhouse. llt was officially stated r that '"* he was shot while trying atoi escape, but the jury found that he was unjustifiably , H : shot .i by • .Captain v- Patrick Byrne, 2 whom ': it found ' : guilty of s wilful murder, expressing , the 3 opinion that Byrne at the time of the shooting was not in such a condition as to be entrusted with firearms. .'■'■•.>/•'..". . ?:.'->-sri ■•: : General O'Daly, commanding in; Kerry, gave evidence that a military ■■? court vof. inquiry had found that ; Byrne shot Conway unjustifiably. v Byrne i: had £. been, captured :by t irregulars rin October and stripped and horsewhipped, -as s : the result of which ; his mind s had '.become unhinged. _*i':Z-' ' \ " " '""'"■ "•"■ ;;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 9
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156REVENGE FOR LASH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 9
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