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I.R.A. CHIEF OF STAFF FOR USURPING FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT. EARLIER EVENTS RECALLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) DUBLIN, June 19. A special criminal court, composed of Army officers, sentenced Stephen Hayes, of Wexford, to five years penal servitude on a charge that he unlawfully exercised a function of the Government in 1939-41, by maintaining and being Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army. Members of an illegal organisation last September court-martialled Hayes, beat him and threatened him with death. He escaped and appeared in a Dublin street, bound with chains and carrying a revolver. John Dunlop, at a subsequent trial at which Hayes was a witness, was sentenced to death for assaulting and detaining Hayes, but this sentence was commuted.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1942, Page 4
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