SHOT IN COLD BLOOD.
Irish Free State Officer. ECHO OF ILLEGAL DRILLING CASE. United Press Association —xsy Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 22, 6.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 21. Superintendent Curtin, of the Irish Free State police, who recently conducted a case against four men who were accused of illegal drilling, was shot dead outside his house in Tipperary. Superintendent Curtin left his office late in the evening, and was found dying riddled with bullets outside the door by his wife an hour later. The police are scouring the country. Judge Sealey, opening the Clonmel circuit court, declared that it is probable that the murder is the result of the illegal drilling case. “It is distressing that there are still criminals left in Ireland, who will murder a man in cold blood, because he carried out his duty.” Superintendent Curtin was 30 years of a-ge, and had been married less than a year.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18833, 23 March 1931, Page 9
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151SHOT IN COLD BLOOD. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18833, 23 March 1931, Page 9
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