Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-11-18
TERROR REIGN
is DESCRIBED
TO AMERICANS
Official of Irish Town Tells
Story Before Body at
Washington.
SENT TO LONDON PRISON

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q place Of terror and death by British
soldiers and constabulary was painted IN
graphic sentences today for the American
commission investigating conditions in
ireland by Dennis Morgan, chairman OF
the town council Of Thurles.
Morgan was the first witness. He came
from Irelsnd TO testify before the COM
mission which, formed at the suggestion
Of Oswald Garrison Willard, is holding
hearings here to get at the truth ABOUT
ireland.
Morgan, q young teacher OF Eng1sn
and Gaelic in the diocesan college ana
secondary school at Thurles, described
his home city as in the middle OF the
heart Of Tipperary, in Munster province.
n is market center of five thousand in
habitants. he said.
Morgan declared no murders, burglary
or other major crimes had been commit
ted IN the town for many years ana tns
only offenses with which the courts mad
10 deal were "straying ass in the road OF
some citizen who imbibed freely.
TROUBLE BREAKS
DIT IN JANUARY.
Trouble broke out in Thurles, Morgan
said. on Jan. 20, five days after ne hau
been elected as a labor member OF the
On the night Of IN. 90 he said the
town was sSnt up by the Royal lrisn
Constabulary in -evenge for the snoring
Of one Of their Der. Morgan ue-
scrfbed the terror O. his family as theg
Law all night on q stone floor TO eseap
tbs bullets which crashed through the
1vIndovvs OF the house. Next morning
1forgsn said. he found the houses OF an
,.s-nbers Of the town council who favored
Irish independence had been riddIed WIN
bullets.
stores and a newspaper office were
wrecked with hand grenades, he declared
and the main street and square OF tho
town were Uttered with glass and DEBRIS
The people, he said, were wild with
terror,
ON Ian. 30. Morgan was arrested IN
his home by Royal Irish Constaoulary'
who told him, he said. that there was no
charge against him, but that he was
taken prisoner on government orders
DFPORTED TO
LONDON PRISON.
with four other Sim Feiners from
Thurles and fifty from other towns, he
was deportsd to Norwood Scrubs
p-ison IN London. On the trip. he said.
The men were handcuffed in pairs and
vera confined in q small compartment
aboard ship.
On the ship, Morgan said, & paper
was read to him, telling him that in
asnuch as he has either had or was
shout to do something to the detri-
mont Of the realm, he would be IN
termed.
in APRIL" said Morgan, 81 received a
telegram In the prison that my Oldest
boy. lad Of five, was dying. at
once applied for a parole. but l got
no answer few days later l was
notified that my boy was dead.
I again asked for parole. but It was
fatty refused and I was unable 10 get
to the funeral"
After having been in prison until late
IN April, Morgan said he and zoo otner
Irish prisoners demanded trial.
HUNGER STRIKE
FOLLOWS REFUSAL.
When IL was refused they went on
a hunger strike Finally some OF the
hunger strikers became so weak they
were taken to a hospital Morgan got
back to Ireland in June, he said.
ssDid any OF the 200 strikers der
asked Howe.
mo" said Morgan. some Of them
refused food twenty-four days was
on strike for eleven days"
why did the Irish constabulary con-
meet you and the other Republicans with
the shooting OF the policeman asked
Jane Adams.
sMy own theory IS that they deter
mined to punish the leading men Of the
town said Morgan when they shot
ur the town the policemen who had been
shot was not dead. BE lived two days
longer"
The deportations, he declared. were
general over ireland and followed sweep
Ing victories In district and county cleo
lions for Irish Republican candidates
More than 500 were deported In Re"
days, he said.
THURLEs SHOT UP
TWICE AFTER.
was Thurles ever shot up after thatT'
Yes. twice. l was in prison. Threat
eufng letters were sent to Morgan and
other members Of the town council, tbs
witness said I got a letter telling me-
that I would depart this life unless
left Thurles within twenty-four hours,
said Morgan. Another member OF tbs
council named Mccarthy demanded an in
vestigation OF the shooting up Of the
town. Mccarthy got letter telling hin
he would get all the Information h'
needed II be would go up a certain
street that night He didn't go. Thai
night a knock came to the door. Nc
Carthy's brother went TO the door and
was shot dead. His sister ran out tC
san the priest. she was fred at.
The coroner's inquest returned a YER
dict that McCt rthy was killed by person.
in the uniform OF the Royal Irish con
Btabulary.
"At Holy Cross, near Thurles. wax
was being held The town simpleton'
man more than GO years Of age, stepped
out Of the house about o'clock II
the morning. he fell dead, rtddled Will
bullets. The coroner's jury summoned
by the Royal Irish constabulary returned
a verdict that the killing was wilful muir
der, committed By the Royal Irish con
stabulary.
WORSE THAN THAT
IN FLANDERS"
arthur Henderson, leader of the la
Dor party. was in Thurles the day sfte
It was nrst shot up. He said he had beer
in Flanders, but had seen no destruc
ton there to equal that in Thurles"
The British controlled the press In Ire
land. carried false reports concerning th'
shooting and turning. Morgan said.
After the killing Of the simplston a
Holy Cross" Re said, Dublin Castle
gave TO the press a statement that al
attack had been made on the police bar
racks at Holy Cross and that in tbs
fight a man had been killed.
s'At TempIsmore, near Thurles. the po
lice and troops burned the town hall
The next day, II was announced thai
Captain Beatty, a British army officer
had lost his life in a gallant attempt &
save & person from a burning building
in Templemors. The facts are that h'
70 the town hail."
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