Show Irish Cabinet Minister Assassinated Dublin Ireland Kevin Ireland Kevin O'Higgins known as the strong man of the Irish Free State was shot down In Inthe inthe inthe the streets and killed by assassins As in the case of another strong strongman man Michael Collins his murderers lay in wait for him and as he lie was walking alone from his home at Black BlackRock BlackRock BlackRock Rock a short distance from Dublin to midday mass an automobile pulled up beside him and three men pumped bullets into him The assassins drove away and thus far have escaped the police As he lay on the road mortally wounded O'Higgins vice president of ot the Free State council minister of ot justice and foreign affairs gasped out I 1 forgive them all Nothing could be done to staunch the flow of ot blood which was streaming from half balf a dozen dozen doz doz- en wounds Four bullets had gone through his neck one passed into his chest and another through the ear to the base of the brain |