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Show I STREET F11G 9 POTS BELFAST I III MIC Pjf Three Civilians Murdered by Masked Men After Policeman's Police-man's Death LONDON, Sept 27 Lord May-or May-or Terence MacSwincy cf Cork, passed another bad night at Grix-ton Grix-ton pri6on, and was in a verv r jl weak and exhausted condition ttC- morning, sa.d a bulletin issued by the Irish Self-Detcrminntlon , league. He had a little sleep be- i fore midnight but none aficr '.hat J time. This is the forty-sixth dr.y f of his hunger strike BELFAST, Sept. 27. The shooting by snipers and others in the center of BJ Belfast last night caused a panic l.'i among the crowds promenading on Royul avenue, the city's main artery, ft "Iter church hours The disturbance J j followed the shooting Saturday j ii night and early Sunday in which ( ne Wi policeman was killed and two others g-- were wounded, followed by the asracrl-: Wj nation of three civilians in ri brl il bj i ii parlies of mat ked men. 'ty The opening incident of Sunday night's disorders occurred when nip Vj ers in side streets of the Sinn Fein t quarter fir-d mio Sort! street which -'"a crosses Royal avenue. , J A stampede was created In Royal , l.j avenuo when volley;; suddenly rangj 4 out apparently from the Sinn Fein lldfl r streets at the top cf North street, n . firing rapidly Increasing in ciuni-There ciuni-There was a panic about the Castle i street Junction, from which all tram I car tratfic starts. Woman ran about in a freDzy and there was a rush to seek shelter in the cars. A force of military and the! police soon arrived nnd conditions quieted down. REPRISALS COME. Tho reprisals came swiftly. Shortly after 3 a in. three civilians, Edward Trodzon, John McFadden and John Calnor, who lived hi ar the scene of the ' attack were slain in their homes. Four men took part in the Bhootihgl of Trodzon, who was a barber Aftei j knocking at the doer they fired a shot through the barber rhop window. Trod .zon's son opened the door and the men, wearing masks, rushed upstairs j They dragged Trouzcn to the yard and fired several thiols at him, piercing his skull I Other occupants of the homes were not molested SCENE OF SHOOTING. The scene of the second shooting 'was a hundred yards from the Springfield Spring-field road barracks McFadden opened the door when three men knocked. Several shots were discharg ed at him and he fell dead i Oainor s mother answered the tapping tap-ping on the door. The men rushed to a room at the top of the house where they found their victim partly dressed. They made him walk down the stairs ahead of thorn and fired three :hots into hi. body, kflllnfT him. i Few police were seen on the street?, but armed cars were patrolling tho Falls section and a large body of military mili-tary was on duty. The military authorities have decided decid-ed to restore the curfew law. WIDOW'S HOME SEARCHED. DUBLIN, Sept. 26. It is officially announced that ammunition and a quantity cf seditious documents were found in the home of Mr6. Thomas MacCurtain, widow of the late lord mayor of Cork, when searched by troops. It is officially denied that Mrs. Mac-Curtain Mac-Curtain was fired at or that there was any threat that her house would be wrecked Cork dispatches of Saturday said that Mrs MacCurtain reported that B shot had been fired at her while she was walking in the garden in the rear of her home. oo |