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Show MHH KILLED, HIS WIFE SHOT IT Tij HOI Curfew Restrictions Prevent Members of Household Going to Get Help WOMAN WOUNDED IN PROTECTING HUSBAND Cardinal Logue of Ireland Makes Plea for St. Patrick's Truce DUBLIN. Mar 7. t By The Aso-elated Aso-elated Press.) George Clancey. mayor ma-yor of Limerick. .s shot and killed at his home there ihl;; morning und' his wife was seriously wounded. At! about tho same time. Michael O'Cal-laghan, O'Cal-laghan, former mayor of the city, was also killed nt his residence. Monger report received here state that Mayor t'laneey and his wife were! shot at about 1.30 o'clock but, owing the household were afraid to venture on tho streets to secure aid and friends i with whom they commulratcd In telephone ould not go to the house for the same reason. About two hours later a doctor! arrlvrd from lmMUttul and found Ma-. or Clancey dead and Mrs. Clancey in i critical condition. Former Mayor Q'Callaghan dying when doctors .summoned by tho police arrived at the house. IN HI. BLt KD BKLKAST, Ireland, Mar. 7. Bands of mer. shot George Clancey. mayor of Limerick, and Michael O'Callaghan, x former mayor of that city, In cold blood whllo they were In bod Mrsj Clancey, while ndcevonng to pro-' teet her husband, was shot in one of' hrr arms Limerick is Itvtesely excited ovor the shootings, which are popularly Interpreted Inter-preted as reprisals for the WtaSSlnjl tlons of Brigadier General Cummtng, who was killed at Clonbann on Saturday. Sat-urday. PLEADS FOR TRUCE Cardinal Iyog'io; primate of Ireland,' In a letter to the priests of the Ar-I mngh diocese again appeals for a truce in Ireland and suggests the birth, day of St. Patrick offers an opportune! occasion for an appeal to the Al-i mighty for the return of peai e. Ho! says: "It Is no excuse that crimes even greater and more numerous have been committed by others, for crime doesi not Justify crime. We shall: not before the Judgment scat be called! upon t account for the crimes of thoi Black and Tans, or the auxiliary cadets, ca-dets, o:- the military, who have sacrificed sacri-ficed so many Innocent lives on the most futile pretense We shall not I even be called to account for the' blindness, obstinacy and partiality of our government." Deploring disregard for human life and property shown by both sides, he denounces the ambushing and attacking attack-ing of soldiers und police In crowded thoroughfares. "They who commit such acts know well those armed forces will blaze away Indiscriminately and the victims! are often woman, girls and children! engaged in lawful occupations." he I said. ROME. Mar. 7. B The Associated Press. - -Pope Benedict, lu his allocution allo-cution delivered ut the secret consistory consis-tory today alluded to Ireland having her ancient struggles renewed There had been an outbreak of appalling lo-' lence and crimes In contradiction of the laws of morality, the pontiff de-i dared "crimes which we condemn by whichever side committed." |