SKEFFINGTON'S DEATH
MESSAGE WAS TOO LATE. TO RESTRAIN MAD OFFICER. INQUIRY CLOSED. (Router's Telegrams.) LONDON, Sept. 1. At Hie inquiry concerning the shooting without trial during the Sinn Fein revolt of Sheehy Skeffington, evidence was given by Lieut. Dobbin that he sent a messenger to the adjutant to say that Captain Colthurst intended removing * the prisoners' guard from the room for * execution. The adjutant sent a message that they must not be removed, but the messenger arrived as the shots rang out. Received S<>pt. i, 8.10 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 1. At the Skeffington inquiry, Lieut. ' Dobbin, aged 19, replying to the chairman, said he did not defend til** prisoners because Captain Colthurst was his superior officer, but he was not actually ordered to give them up. Colthurst simply said he wanted the prisoners and took them. Witness knew Colthurst was doing wrong, but he was not in a position to say so to a superior officer, lb' admitted that he had heard a general rumour that Colthurst had previously shot a boy in the street. The inquiry lias closed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13275, 2 September 1916, Page 5
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