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LEADER OF I.R.A. POSSESSION OF ARMS (Elec. Tol. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received May 4, 2 .p.m.) LONDON, -May 3. A prominent Irish Republican, Thomas Barry, was summoned before the Military Tribunal on a charge of possessing a machine gun and 384 rounds of revolver ammunition. He refused to recognise the court’s jurisdiction on any charge whatever, especially in respect to the possession of .arms which were the 'property of the Republican Army. Barry, who was a director of operations in the I.R.A. civil war, declared: “It is a damnable scandal that the Executive Council should place me on trial 'before officers of the army which I once tried to wipe out ai the Executive’s instigation.” Barry was sentenced to one year in gaol, of which three months will be remitted if he enters into recognisances of £IOO to keep the peace for two years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18388, 4 May 1934, Page 8
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