POSSESSION OF ARMS.
PROSECUTION in IRELAND. 4- TRUCULENT DEFENDANT. LONDON, May 3. A prominent Irish Republican, Thomas Barry, summoned before the Military Tribunal on a charge of possessing a machine-gun and 384 rounds of revolver ammunition, refused to recognise the Court’s jurisdiction on any charge whatever, especially in respect of the possession of arms, which were the property of the Republican army. Barry, who was director of the operations of the I.R.A. in the civil war, said: “It is a damnable scandal that the Executive Council should place me on trial before the officers of an army which I once tried to wipe out at the executive’s instigation.”
Barry was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, of which three months will be remitted if he enters into recognisances of £lO6 to keep the peace for two years.
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Wairarapa Age, 5 May 1934, Page 5
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