OUTRAGES IN IRELAND
BLUE SHIRTS ATTACKED ONE SHOT IN THE LEG. LONDON, October 29. Armed men in a motor car entered the home of Denis O’Leary, a Blue Shirt, at Bandon, before dawn and shot him in the leg after battering down the door, O’Leary’s father, who is chairman of the local creamery, was knocked unconscious with a stick. The intruders, brandishing revolvers, dragged the son out of doors, assaulted and shot him, then decamped. The father struggled to the Civic Guard station bleeding from the head. 1 Armed masked men an hour later raided the bungalow of Hugh O’Reilly, another Blue Shirt, at Innishannon. They dragged him out and beat him severely, necessitating his removal to the hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22098, 31 October 1933, Page 9
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119OUTRAGES IN IRELAND Otago Daily Times, Issue 22098, 31 October 1933, Page 9
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