MURDER CAMPAIGN.
SHOCKING OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. London, March 6. —At Swineford, in Mayo, a disguised man entered the home of Sergeant O’Dowd, who was sitting with his wife at the fireside. The intruder fired at O’Dowd and the latter's wife sprang up and held a chair between her husband and the intruder. The latter fired through thb chair, and then shot Mr© O’Dowd, piercing a lung. Two other shots struck the husband. Mrs O’Dowd i s in a critical condition, and her husband’s condition is serious, but he is expected to recover. Three men entered the Belfast Cooperative .Society’s premises in Fallsroad, and ordered a vanman named Kidd to go outside. Kidd refused, and was shot and left dying. The week-end casualties in Belfast, were two killed and 25 wounded. Owen Hughes, who was shot dead in a tram passing the sniping area, in Belfast, was deliberately murdered. His assailants escaped from the tram in the confusion.
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Wairarapa Age, 8 March 1922, Page 5
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