COLD-BLOODED MURDERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15465, 9 March 1921, Page 3

COLD-BLOODED MURDERS.

THE LIMERICK CRIMES: OTHER OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. lElec. Tel- Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, March t. Tlie Limerick murders included that of O'Donoghue, a well-known citizen. At one o clock in the morning armed masked men woke Collaghan, shouting : “Come out, Callaghan.” The latter refusing, the intrduers burst in the door and rushed toward Callaghan, whose wife, throwing herself in front of her husband, was struck to tlie floor and stunned, 'iphe men then seized and shot Callaghan, who died a quarter ot an hour .later. The murderers decamped and followed a similar procedure with Clancy, whose wife threw- herself in front of her husband and received, a oullet through her arm and collapsed, i’lie assailants then shot Clancy, and his dead body lay alongside liis unconscious wife. A party, armed and disguised, ordered the ocupants of Vickerey’s hotel at Jlantry to leave in ten minutes, after which the building was set on fire. A patrol surrounded a house at Hemonstown (Tipperary). The inmates fired and the patrol replied, killing Hogan (who was .a battalion commander in the Republican army), and capturing an officer thereof and important papers. The Daily Herald says that the cadets whom General Crozier dismissed had been ordered to rejoin their units with a promise of full back pay. Dublin Castle reports that a widow, named Walpole, was found shot dead in a field at Tralee. The Carnegie Library at Listowel has been burned down.—A. and N.Z.C.A.