HOW SINN FEIN METES OUT JUSTICE.

New Zealand Tablet, 18 November 1920, Page 15

HOW SINN FEIN METES OUT JUSTICE.

“Received through the medium of the Irish Volunteers the sum of £1,752, being the amount recovered by them of the money stolen at Killonin on April 2, 1920.” Such, says the Irish Bulletin, was the receipt, signed by Mr. H. C. Linton, general manager G.S. and W. Railway Co., and dated July 20, 1920, which was handed by the manager to a clergyman who stated that he was acting purely as an intermediary, and who called at the mnager’s office and handed him notes for the amount stated. At’ the same time the clergyman presented a statement indicating that the Republican police had traced and arrested the robbers who had held up the G.S. and IV. Railway pay train at Killonin (Co. Limerick), removing a large sum of money. ' The Republican police recovered £1,780 10s, from which was deducted £2B 10s, expenses incurred in tracing the thieves, and, it was stated, if information was given at once as to the exact amount stolen probably the wholeamount would have been recovered. It was pointed out that the matter had involved considerable effort and personal danger to the young men who recovered the money, and who were inspired in the difficult work purely by ideals of social order and justice. Such action, it was further stated, when militarist efforts were being made to destroy the economic life of the nation might be taken as proof of “clean and straight justice to all within the Irish Republic.”