New-York tribune., 1920-09-23
Sinn Feiner Is Shot
After Dublin Officers
Threaten Employees {;
Send Aids for Body
Homes of De Valera
Relatives DESTROYED
Two Killed and Four In
/, iured i'm Escort Accom-
panying the Authorities

yyosn The Tribune's Europeon Bureau
cspyrght. 1920. New York Tribune Inc.
4 LONDON, Sept. 22.-John A. Lynch,
Sim Fein councillor of the County of
Limerick, who is said to have served
rs Judge of a republican court, was
murdered in his room at the Royal Ex-
change Hotel in Dublin early to-day.
The crime is imputed to the BLACK
and Tans," Irish auxiliary police, and
this latest activity in their series of
recent reprisals has stirred resentment
throughout Ireland to fever pitch.
At 8 o'clock this morning a party of
police and military demanded admis-
sion to the hotel. They covered the
night porter with revolvers, consulted
The register and went upstairs. Later
they descended, no shots having been
heard, and departed. Some time later
Q sergeant and three constables Of the
Dublin metropolitan police arrived and
wid they had come to take charge of
the man who had been shot. This was
the first intimaiion the hotel en-
poyees had OF murder.
The police went Immediately to the
room occupied by Judge Lynch. His
body was found there with a large
wound in the lower part OF his face.
Resisted Arrest, Says Report
An official version of the affair says
that Judge Lynch resisted arrest and
was shot dead by the police. 1t is said
,heH
charged was found near the body.
Late to-day there was an incomplete
official report of the ambushing of
police car in County Clare. Two of The
escort were killed and four wounded.
The use of the term escort" in the
vague official announcement suggests
that some important official may have
seen in the car attacked.
Coming so closely upon the sAcking
Of Balbriggan. later details of which
show BLACK and Tan" atrocities COM
PARABLE IN extent to anything COM
slitted by or attributed to the Sim
Fem, to-days killing of Judge Lynch
has stirred intense popular feeling, not
ony in Ireland, but also in England,
and has caused considerable more un-
rest among the ordinary police and
military, who are alarmed because of
the BLACK and Tan" activities.
- The Unionist Irish Times. after re-
PARTING that the two men murdered in
'albriggan looked as if they had been
Killed, not By human beings, but by
aHimals, says;
Says Law Has Collapsed
Law has ceased to exist and pas
SION has been unoosed which threatens
70 become utterly uncomfortable" The
paper demands TO know how the govern
ment will deal with "the terrible affair
at balbriegan in the thick of the Irish
tragedy" and declares that "imm ediate
action is necessary to lreland's very
existence"
1t was learned to-day that an official
inquiry into outrages by the police
will be instituted. The English news
papers make strong editorial pro-
test against the outrages. The Man
chester Guardian says:
The latest bou. IN the murder and
counter murder in Ireland is the most
damaging of all TO our reputation
abroad: In Balbriggan, an inspector
Of police on a holiday excursion and
wearing plain clothes seems to have
got into public house row and to
nave been killed in shooting affray
nnsn followed. ANY English constab-
mary force would merely have put
mther more than the customary zeal
INTO the grateful task Of bringing to
justice the slayer Of their comrade.
Police Outrage Condemned
:. Instead Of this, the Royal Irish po-
Ecs committed far more serious
crime than that of the first criminals.
they spent the rest of the night in ar
afEy OF arson and lynching, two men
a. =. least being lynched, great part Of
sne town burned and a perfect handle
gTen every enemy Of ours who likes
% suggest that when we object TO
Me German methods Of keeping order
Belgium and the Turkish methods
@ keeping order in Armenia we arc
ssmougs who do the same as the Turks
" Germans if similarly tested"
Four Policemen Killed
LONDON, Sept % BY The Associ.
y s!ed Press).--A dispatch to the Central
Aews from Ennis, County Clare, re-
s'fts collision between police and
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