IRISH LAWLESSNESS.
MURDERS AND RIOTING. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrigJ.it. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 13, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON. June 12. A party of men masquerading as soldiers, who said they were taking men to the barracks for identification, captured Kerr, a barbei\ and M’Bride, o. publican and halfpenny postman, took them from tlieir home in North Belfast and shot them. The bodies were taken in motor-cars and flung into fields at the roadside. There was serious rioting in the York Street district., Belfast. Tho police were outnumbered. Many rioters were wounded by revolvers, some seriously. Police reinforcements ended the trouble. Head-Constable M’Elvill was murdered while going to Mass at Kilbrogan, Westmeath.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16451, 13 June 1921, Page 7
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112IRISH LAWLESSNESS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16451, 13 June 1921, Page 7
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