Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — IRISH BURN BARRACKS [ARTICLE]

IRISH BURN BARRACKS

MOBS WRECK AT LEAST 50 POLICE STATIONS. Many Income Tax and Customs Offices Also Raided—One Man Killed and Minister Shot Dublin, May 14. —At least fifty police barracks in various parts of Ireland were wiped out in the course of widespread destruction of public property and other activities by bands of armed and masked men in various parts of Ireland Wednesday night. • Twenty income tax and customs offices also were raided and papers found in them burned. Two mail cars and one mail train were held up and official papers taken from them. One man was killed in the outskirts of Dublin, where barracks were being burned. Rev. T. G. Wilkinson, one of the canons of the Down cathedral, at Downpatrick, was shot and critically wounded while pursuing raiders on the street. The houses of two newspaper editors were ruined and one anti-Sinn-Feln editor was tarred and feathered. Some of the police barracks destroyed were unoccupied and others were inhabited only by the custodians.

The reports oP tlie raiders’ activities have been pouring In from numerous sections. Two hundred men besieged the Hollyford police barracks in County Tipperary for four hours, using rifles and bombs. A part of the building was set on Are, but the ten officers defending the place withdrew to another section of the structure and continued their resistance. The attackers eventually retired. No casualties were reported. London, May 14.—The British government has decided to create a special Judicial body to examine the cases of Irishmen who are under arrest, it was announced in the house of commons by Andrew Bonar Law, the government leader.