UNLAWFUL ASSOCIATION
SEQUEL TO ARRESTS REPUBLICAN ARMY MEMBERS CHARGED. DUBLIN, May 2G. As a .sequel to the recent arrest of members of the Irish Republican Army, Patrick Collins was charged before the military tribunal with belonging to an iliegal organisation and failing to account for his movements. Collins refused to plead guilty, not recognising the Court. Counsel Geoghcgan, representing the Irish Free State, recalled the murders of Somerville on Mauch 25, a boy, John Egan on April 27, and said the police had ascertained enough to satisfy them that the murders were organised and carried out by an organisation whose members were in unlawful possession of firearms. Police Superintendent Diggin said that Collins refused to answer when asked if he knew who shot Somerville and Egan. Collins denied he was a member of an unlawful association or the Republican Army. Collins was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment and was removed from the Court shouting “Up with the Republic.” Five others were sentenced from three to twelve months on one or both of the above charges.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 125, 28 May 1936, Page 7
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175UNLAWFUL ASSOCIATION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 125, 28 May 1936, Page 7
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