TWO MEN SHOT DEAD IN DUBLIN, ONE OF THEM A NEW ZEALANDER

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 January 1948, Page 5

TWO MEN SHOT DEAD IN DUBLIN, ONE OF THEM A NEW ZEALANDER

(N.Z.P.A.—Copyright.) Recd. 6 p.m. Dublin, Jan. 24 A man entered a house in Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin, and shot dead a former pilot of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Rcnald Ernest Brain, of Auckland, and Robert Robinson, of Dublin. The shooting occurred at the home of two girls who Brain and Robinson had taken home from a dance. Brain, who is in business in London, was holidaying in Eire An army lieuterant, Henry Fitzimmon Cotton, aged 25. of Dalkev, was later remanded until next Saturday on a charge 01 murdering Brain and Robinson. Brain and Robinson were in the living room at the girls’ home while the girls, who ar? sisters, were making tea in the kitchen. Robinson answered a knock on the living room door and a man entered. He shot Robinson through the heart. Brain, when he ran to Robinson’s assistance received a fatal wound.