Show u Y T n m no m on FI JAll OUTRAGES J A AT Al J TULES l u h T U I HI HIVAl VAl 0 SJ R I Ihan nan han of Council I Irish h Town First Heard by the ird Commission I IByL ByL C. C MARTIN ss Staff Correspondent Nov 18 A A t of a peaceful Irish own own n turned into a place r. r and death by British an arid constabulary wast was t r sentences today mer c n n. commission invest in Ireland b by Deni Den- Den i chairman of ol the town I fles w was was- s the the first wit witness ess He Hen Hea n a Ireland to testify before n formed at at the sug ug Ug- t r wald Garrison Villard is S iii holding hearings here ed cd purpose of getting at ait It Ireland I CENTER CENTER J. J young ung teacher of f En- En aelic in the diocesan col- col se school in Thurles 1 home city a as in the ge lIlie e heart of Tipperary in It is a market ceno cen cen- o he said Morat Mor- Mor at there w were re no murders o other ther major crIm crimes corn com com I It tie le town for many years ears with which the to deal were straying I or some citizen who Jeo d. d too fr freely ely boke Oke Out dut in Thurles Molo Mor- Mor I I o 0 January 20 20 five days ha had a been elected as a labor f I je e town council HOT lOT UP I ht of January 20 he said IV shot up by the royal in revenge for the ne of their number Mor- Mor bed the terror of his family 1 11 ll night on a stone floor Ioor he 3 bullets which crashed m ii ing windows of the house Morgan said he found I biri uses ses of all members of ot I muncH who favored Irish nc had been riddled with I pd a newspaper office were hand nand grenades he delOa de- de I lOa ind nd the main street and andI Kh town town were littered with I brIs The Tle people he said I 1 J h terror ARREST ES Ir i abr r 30 Morgan was arrested I me n by royal Irish toad d him he said there was I him hint but that he he hen heI I n I on on government orders Sinn from Thurles im other lie ne e was wa's was I Wormwood prison On the trip ho he said the and confined In Inc c Apartment S' S SN SON N DIES rp P Morgan said a paper l IB o him telling him that Ins in- in s either had done or was rdo something to the detri- detri realm he would be e In In- Ih r isaid I saId aid Morgan I received the prison that my old- old rid of five was dying I for a parole but I got gotI r A A few days later I was wasa washa ha a my boy was dead I 1 again I parole but it was flatly reI re- re I ta was unable to get to the lG GER R STRIKE g been in prison until late l 1 Morgan Igan said ho and other demanded trial all went t was refused refuse they iger ger strike Finally some of became so 50 weak to a a. hospital Morgan I Ireland In June he ho said ot the strikers die I derick C C. Howe chairman of ot aidi Morgan Some of them twenty four d days I was I If Wi for r eleven days clays LEADING MEN he Irish constabulary ry con- con pd the other othel republicans hooting of the policeman 1 n Addams I IIi deter deter- Ii theory I 1 is that they th l lending leading men of j on page e 0 U. I DEATH RUIN i I Continued from page 1 1 the town own said Morgan Morg When they shot up the town the policeman who ho had been shot was not dead He lived two da days s 's longer The deportations ho declared were general over Ireland and followed sweeping victories In local loca district and I county elections for Irish republican candidates s. s More Moie than were deported deported de do- de- de I ported in a few days ha ho said THREATS IN MAIL Was Vas Thurles ever shot up after that Yes twice while I was in prison Threatening letters were sent to Morgan Mor Mor- Morgan gan and other members of the town council the tho witness said 1 I 1 got a letter telling me I J would be he deported unless uness I left Thur Thurles s within twenty-four twenty hours said saW Morgan I i Another member of the council council named McCarthy demanded an loves loves- investigation of the shooting up of the town i McCarthy l got a letter telling him he i would get all the information ho he needed needed needed need- need ed if it ho would go up a certain street that night Ho lie didn't go That night nighta a knock came to the door McCarthys McCarthy's brother went to the door and was shot dead Iris His sister ran an out to call the priest and she was fired at I IThe I The coroners coroner's inquest returned a verdict verdict ver ver- dict that McCarthy was killed by aver I persons persons persons per- per sons in tho uniform of the ro royal a Iri Irish h I constabulary KILLED AT WAKE E. E I I At Holycross near Thurles a a. wake was being held beld Tho The town simpleton a man more than GO CO years jears of age I stepped out of the house about 3 in the morning He fell felI dead riddled with bullets Tho The coroners coroner's jury summoned summoned summoned sum- sum I by the royal roal Irish constabulary returned a verdict that the killing was I I wilful murder committed by the royal i Irish constabulary j I i Arthur Henderson leader of the British labor party was in Thurles the I Iday cIa day after acter J it was vas first shot up He said he had been in I Flanders but had seen no destruction thereto there thero to equal that in inI I Thurles Ii FALSE REPORTS After Arter the killing killing- of the simpleton at I Holycross he said Dublin Castle gave to the press a statement that an attack attach had been made on the police barracks at Holycross and that in the i i fight a a. man had been killed j I At Templemore near Thurles the police pollee and troops troop burned the town hall The JUie next day it was announced that Captain Beatty a British army officer I had lost his life liCe in a gallant attempt to save a person from a burning buildIng build- build j h Ing ng g In Templemore The facts arc are that i he e was burned to death while setting fire to the town hall r I i I Morgan l said that as I a result of the the invasion of the district by black and tans and the constabulary people are aree afraid to g go into the streets at night I AH An social life has gone from Thurles he said Classes for the study of Gaelic have been beon abando abandoned ed I |