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LONDON, March 15. Lieutenant Gaffney, of the Free State Army, was banged in Mountjoy prison for murdering Sergeant Brosnam at Seartaglin. Brosnam was murdered two days after the shooting of a policeman. Gaffney took Brosnam from a house and shot him in revenge. Volunteer Lecn has been reprieved. Gaffney confessed that he killed Brosnam alter Leen had mounded him. Leen was firing under a threat that, he would be killed if he did not. A great crowd of wometf knelt outride the prison at the time of the exe•ution, reciting “The Rosary.” (It was cabled on December 6, that six armed and masked men entered the Civil Guards’ station at Seartaglin, County Kerry, shot a sergeant dead, end looted the station.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18965, 17 March 1924, Page 5
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