SINK FEIN MURDERERS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighi Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. May 16. At the funeral of Constable Beattie, the murdered Belfast policeman, the Sinn Feitiers, without the least provocation. fired into t-lie mourners following the coffin. Several persons were shot, and the clergy had a narrow escape. \\ omen ami children in the streets were -terror-stricken and fied screaming, or lay in heaps on tlu ground. Military and police ears guarding the funeral turned ana firec upon the attackers, who returned th< fire. A man named Fadden concerned in the firing was pursued by the infuriated mob into a shop, where he wa? shot dead.
MOURNERS FIRED AT.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16736, 18 May 1922, Page 4
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