New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-18
Irish Charge
Lloyd George
With Murder
French, Macpherson and
Police Included i'm Bill
Found at Inquest on the
Mayor of Cork's Death
Sim Feiners Restrained
Leaders Avert Clashess the
Lord Lieutenant Has Re-
signed Post, Is Report

CORK, Ireland, April 17.--Charges of
wilful murder against Premier Lloyd
George were brought in verdict which
was rendered to-day by jury in the
inquest into the death of Mayor Mac
Curtain of this city, assassinated last
month.
The verdict also charges Viscount
French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland;
Dan Macpherson, former Chief Secre-
tary, and several olice inspectors with
murder.
The text of the verdict reads:
1--WE find that the late Alderman
Thomas MacCur,ain, Lord Mayor of
Cork, died from shock and hemorrhage
caused by bullet wounds; that he was
wllfully murdered under circumstances
Of the most callous brutality; that the
murder was organized and carried out
by the Royal Irish Constabulary, off
cially directed by the British govern
ment. and we return verdict of wilful
murder against David Lloyd George,
Prime Minister of England Lord
French. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland:
Ian Macpherson, late Chief Secretary
for Ireland; Acting Inspector General
Smith of the Royal Irish Constabulary,
Divisional Inspector Clayton of tho
Royal Irish Constabulary, District In
spector Swanzy and some unknown
members of the Royal Irish Constabu-
larry"
When the inquest on the Lord Mayor
of Cork, Thomas MacCurtan. was re-
sumed to-day, Coroner McCabe an
nounced that he had issued summonses
against the Lord Lieutenant, Viscount
French, and the Under Secretary for
Ireland, Sir John Taylor, but had re-
ceived no reply.
That part of the verdict laying the
crime to the hands of the police caused
no surprise here, but few thought the
jury would go so far as to charge the
Premier, Viscount French and Mr..
Macpherson with the murder, even
though the charge is likely to mean
little more than an expression of senti-
ment against these officials. 1t is diff
ferent. however, with the police officers,
who in the usual course would be ex-
pected to be placed under arrest i'm
mediately.
1t is known that some of the Sim
Fein leaders believed two weeks ago
that the verdict would simply charge
the police as body without mention
ing names This doubtless Influenced
Viscount French and Sir John Taylor,
Under Secretary for Ireland, to ignore
sunmonses to appear as witnesses.
Elaborate military precautions and
the counsel of cooler heads among the
Sim Fein leaders, it is believed, will
forestall serious trouble here. 1t is
reported that the leaders who have
admonished against demonstration
have met with much opposition from
the NOR radical elements. Some re.
ports go so far as to say that the lead
ers have caused the arrest of some of
the wilder spirits. who. it was feared.
might start fighting even in the face
of the great odds against them in the
shape OF machine guns. armored cars
and tanks. No Sim Feiner would con-
firm these reports. however.
LONDON, April 17.-"The Standard"
says it can be asserted on very high
authority that Lord French has placed
his formal resignation as Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland in the hands of the
government
1.-The Sunday Times" also says it is
informed that Lord French has re-
signed. "Ths." says the paper. "dis-
poses Of rumors which have been cur
rent for the last few days"
BELFAST, April 17.-Thomas Null
holland, an employee of the Dundalk
CrDan Council was shot on the street
in Dundalk. forty-Gve miles northwest
Of Dublin, last night and died en-
route to the hospital.
In a statement made on the way to
the hospital he said policeman shot
him. The police, while not admitting
that they shot Mulholland. say that
three policemen, while patrolling, were
attacked byq a mob of civilians, two po-
licemen were knocked down and the
third fired three shots at their as
sailants.
Mulholland was interned after the
rebellion of 1915.
The shooting has created a consid-
cradle sensation, as it is the first event
of the kind that has been reported SO
near the Ulster border.
When the judges of the Assizes left
Belfast this afternoon for Dublin, they
were for the first time on record &C
companied all the way to the capital
by armed police.