The New York herald., 1921-05-17
Masked Men Stop Motor
Party of Five, Including
Two British Cavalry
Officers.
FOUR OF THEM KILLED
Body of Inspector Blake's
Wife Found Beside That
Of Husband and Two
Other Victims.
ATTACK ON CORK PRISON
Bomb Thrown at Military
Lorry i'm Crowded Dublin
Street-Constable Slain
Daniel O'Brien Executed.
Ru The Associated Press.

BIZ the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, May 16.-Reports Of am
buscades and other attacks on tho
military, police and civilians during
Saturday and Sunday show that there
were 33 deaths from violence, this be-
ing the highest number recorded for
such a period. s,,... \,
Four persons, one of them woman.
we're killed in County Galway last
night by men lying in ambush at
Ballyturn, a short distance from
Gort. M
Those killed were District Inspector
Blake and Mrs. Blake. Capt. Corn
wallis. son of Col. Fiennes Stanley
Cornwallis. in whose automobile the
party was riding, and Lieut.. Nc
Creery. The officers were attached to
the Seventeenth Lancers, the crack
cavalry regiment Of the British army.
A Mrs Gregory, the only other person
In the car. was not injured.
The party had been spending Sun
day afternoon playing tennis at the
residence OF Magistrate Bagot OF Bal
lyturn House and were returning TO
their homes at Gort. Reaching the
end of the avenue leading from Baily-
turn House and finding the gate
closed. Capt. Cornwallis got out to
open the gate. Shots Immediately
were fred from the adjacent shrub
berry and CORVALLIS fell dead.
Refused to Leave Husband.
Armed. masked men. said to have
numbered about forty, then sur
rounded the car and ordered tho
women to leave. Mrs. Blake refused
to do so, saying that she would die
by the side Of her husband. Mrs.
Gregory was led away. Shortly after
ward the four bodies were found ly-
ing near the gate.
After the shooting a number Of
men went to Ballyturn House and
handed In a notice threatening TO
burn the house II there we're any re-
rrisals. Military and police reinforce
ments sent to the scene were fired
upon, and one constable was seriously
wounded.
Lieut.. McCreery was only 19 years
old. Mrs. Gregory is daughter-in-
law of Lady Augusta Gregory, an
Irish playwright and well known in
America In connection with the Irish
players. E
Attacks on Police Contfnus.
Attacks on the police and military
occurred in several places last night
and to-day. tth.s.
geant and another constable were
wounded as they we're leaving a
church in Dansha. County Tipperary.
last night.
The body of an unknown man was
found near the Killiney golf links in
Dublin county with fve bullet wounds
in the head. sf
A bomb was thrown at a military
ibiAN III NApNutd FENdFElCh NNTftts IIlN
city. to-day. In the shooting which
followed four civilians were wounded
Military reports say that three pris-
oners attempted TO escape from an es-
cort Mt Carrantuchill, County Kerry
Sunday. Two of them were shot and
killed and the other was wounded
The escort was fired at from house.
which they bombed. The occupants
Of the house while running away were
fired at and the owner was killed.
! Owing to the fact that occupants OF
the houses were alleged to be ACTIVE
supporters or the republicans the mill
tary destroyed several residences In
the Tippe-ary and Cashel districts
one hour was permitted for the re-
moval of foodstuffs from the buildings.
The occupants OF the houses were not
permitted to take out the furniture.
since the attempted release OF Ar
thur Griffith from Mountjoy prison no
visitors are permitted there. Mrs.
MacNeill to-day was denied permission
to SEE her husband Prof John Mac
NELL, president Of the Sim Fein Vol
unteers, who Is incarcerated thera