OUTRAGE IN IRELAND
POLICE OFFICIAL KILLED DID HIS DUTY IN COURT FOUND RIDDLED WITH BULLETS LONDON, March 21. Superintendent Curtin, of the Free State Police, who recently conducted a ease against four men accused of illegal drilling, was shot dead outside his house in Tipperary. He left his office lute in the evening and was found dying, riddled with bullets outside the door by his wife an hour later. The polce are scouring the country. Judge Scaly, opening the Clonmel Circuit Court, declared that it was probably a case of murder, and was a result from the. illegal drilling case. “It is distressing that there are still criminals left in Ireland who will murder a man in cold blond because he has carried out his duty,” ho added, Hupreintondent Curtin is aged 20 years, and was married less than a year ago.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 March 1931, Page 6
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