DEATH THREATS
YOUNG GIRLS INVOLVED Three girls—two of them sisters—who gave out leaflets of an outlawed association threatening informers with "violent and sudden death" were in Belfast each sentenced to IS months' hard labour. The girls, Elizabeth O Toole, aged 17. Marv O'Hare. aired 20. and Bridget O'Hare. aged 17,'a1l of Belfast, were arrested in a house in Crumiin Road. Constable Mitchell said that the document. which wa- directed against police informers, contained the warning: "Those persons would be well advised to guard i heir lone'uos and retrain from associating with policemen and detectives. Failures to heed such advice may lead I hem along the path of the informer, which has only one ending—violent and Midden death." Mr. \\ . K. McCoy, the stipendiary, said the documents were intended to intimidate law-abiding citizens. "The organisation behind these girls." he >aid. "m-oius now to have changed its tactics. This is a new phase to use young girF."'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)
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154DEATH THREATS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)
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