The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-24
QUICK WIT AND
QUICK ACTION
Clever Devices of Sim
Feiners to Evade
Prison.
HIDDEN WITH LATHER
How Bellek Police Barracks
We're Taken Without Even
Firing a Shot.
ny y. o'CoNNELL,

to Sin. Feiners in capturing Bell
mt County Fermanagh) police
h,rracIs without as much as firing
. shot brings to mind some of their
daring clever coups.
Al BrlIeck a party OF Irish repub-
,icsrs drove up to the police barr
rsrls which was fortified BY sand
tsrs and barbed wire, while the de-
t'nd,rs we're we'll provided with
bombs. rifles and ammunition. To
,ske such place by a frontal attack
might have been a long and costly
susir.s. for the raiders and so they
A decided ON trick. Disguised as
Nrldiers they Knocked at the door
and we're admitted as friends. The
audarity Of the manoeuvre was CONF
nletclv cuccesssul Inside the build
ing IL only required the twinkling OF
an eye 10 overpower the police, bind
Them and lock them in an outhouse.
All the rifles, bombs, revolvcrs and
ammunition were seized by the Sim
Feipers. who escaped in their wait
ms automobiles. The raid was per-
lectly timed, inasmuch as part Of the
nolicc garrison was out at mass at
the time, and as procaution
against their joining their comrades
the church doors were locked.
Fool English Detectives.
Another similar feat was carried
out the othet night in Dublin. A
number OF detectives were watching
a house where badly wanted Sim
Feiu member of parliament was
staying. There was no chance of
escape the place was watched from
all sides and II was only a matter
Of some hours when darkness set in
that party of soldiers would ar
rive TO make the arrest. a military
truck did arrive with khaki clad
soldiers in it, fully equipped with
tin hats and ALL but they were not
English soldiers. they were just Sim
Feiners sailing under strange colors.
The officer of the party asked one
Of the plain clothes men to accom-
pany him TO make the search and
capture This was actually done.
and without any hurry they put the
handouts on their man and shipped
him off In the auto. Before starting,
however, the officer gave instruc-
tons 10 the detectives to continue
AN'lA NdtNAl pii Nil' iibhENs 4 lAN iNsAi
arrestng party did arrive some time
later and the chagrin OF both mill
tary and police can be imagined
when they found their prey had
slipped through their fingers.
Barber Shop Trick.
J. J. Walsh, one of the Sim Fein |
members Of parliament, tells me two
amusing stories of how he evaded
capture on one occasion he was
in his shop in Dublin, where he runs
a tobacconist and barber business. |
The military had come for him and |
was at the door. To dash out into |
the street or attempt to climb along
the roof was out OF the question, so
Walsh slipped into the barber shop
az the rear of the place and got one
Of the assistants to slip a towel about
his neck and lather up. You can bet
soap was never put on so thick
as II was then. The police officers
and military actually entered the
place ana stood within few feet of
him and never guessed the truth.
They departed without making the
capture
Escapes From Prison.
Walsh had a run OF "A few months
After that before he was captured
Nrd eighteen months ago he was
ned by guurt-martial and a sentence
q six years il hanging over him.
The day following his trial he, with
twenty others, escaped from the fa-
nous MounUoy prison--a regular
o'd oastile Of a place--and since
then h. has been on the rum Today
ne was telling me of a "close shave"
ne mad when in the north of Ireland
last week in his auto-bike. The
authorities got wind he was in the
u'S'Ict and every road was watched.
." foriadOwn the police got him.
Uut Walsh decided to braZen IL out.
ne 'old them he knew the man they
we're after. but We're they not mis-
%Aeh lA taking him for j. j. Walsh
e produced his drivers license,
"hI'h was. Of course, in some other
uale. However, the officers had
nelr suspicious and marched him
W 'he barracks and hold him for
ouf hours. What really got him
sway was photo Of himself with
ts autograph which he had with
sn' The picture was SO unlike
HalShs face that the police when
sno"h THIS picture became con-
4 wcea ihoy had the wrong man and
" MIN 80. 1T was" said he, "six
''a'S Tor me only for that"
How dc Valera Escaped.
q, Hnsn DE Valera cleared out to
wy lnitde states very simple trick
~. 'he police or the scent. Plain.
.g'hes men shadowed him to the.
ampp.hE agents at Dublin when he
n" ahouIto cross to England 10 join
v' N'a' there for New York. De
S,.lA stood In the queue and when
40 turn came to purchase his ticket
y. presented twenty-pound note,
"e '''fk apologized for not having
'Ahs', but the Irish republican
"waaeF knowing that his conversa-
~ was being listened TO all the
SsNe' SAID "Oh, that's all right; I'll
oack on Thursday" That Thurs
~ Is long time coming, but II
K clear passage 10 America for
~ valera, The detectives took IL
:. W. granted that he was only going
england for a few DAYS and re-
A'u 'neir vigilance.
thousands OF other such cases
hIn Do quoted OF how Sim Teiuers
' me authorities. Tho simplest
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