New-York tribune., 1921-05-17
3 Officers and Woman
Die in Night Ambush
of Sinn Fein; 2 Mill
tary Prisoners Killed
Liverpool Raiders
Set Fire to Homes
Tie Victims Near Flames
and Flee; Cork Prison
Guard Repels Assault

DUBLIN, May IS (By The Associated
Press Reports of ambuscades and
othe rattacks on the military, police and
civilians during Saturday and Sunday
show that there were thirty three deaths
from violence, this being tho highest
number recorded for such a period.
Four persons, one a woman, we're
KILLED in County Galway last night by
men lying in ambush at Ballyeirn, u
short distance from Gort
Those killed were District Inspector
Blake and Mrs. Blake, Captain Corn
wallis, son of Colonel Fiennes Stanley
CORVALLIS, in whose automobile the
party was riding, and Lieutenant Nc
Creery. The officers were attached to
the 17th Lancers. A Mrs. Gregory, the
only other person in the car, was not
injured.
Fired on From shrubbery
The automobilists had been spending
Sunday afternoon playing tennis at the
residence of Magistrate Bagot, of Bal
lyearn House, and were returning to
their homes at Gort. Reaching the
tirn House and finding the gate closed.
Captain CORVALLIS got out to open
the gate. Shots Immediately were fired
from the adjacent shrubbery and Corn
wallis fell dead.
Armed masked men surrounded the
car and ordered the 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 afterward the four bodies
were found lying near the gate.
After the shooting number of men
went to Ballyearn House and handed in
notice threatening to burn the house
of there were any reprisals.
Lieutenant McCreery was only nine
teen years old. Mrs. Gregory is a
daughter-inlaw OF Lady Augusta Greg
ory, an Irish playwright.
Military reports say that three pris-
oners attempted to escape from an
escort at Carrantuchill, County Kerry,
Sunday. Two Of them were shot and
killed and the other was FOUNDED. The
escort was fired at from q house, which
it bombarded. The occupants of the
house, while running away, were fired
at and the owner was killed.
Owing to the fact that occupants of
houses were alleged to be active sup
porters Of the republicans the military
destroyed several residences in the
hour was permitted for the removal of
foodstuffs from the buildings. The oc-
cupants Of the houses were not per-
mitted to take out the furniture.
Since the attempted release of
Arthur Griffith from Mountjoy Prison
no visitors are permitted there. Mrs.
MacNeill to-day was refused permits
sion to see her husband, Professor
John MacNeill, president of the Sim
Fein volunteers, who is there.
Victims Bound, Left to Flames
LIVERPOOL, May 16.-Six houses
in widely separated parts of Che city
were raded and set on fire by parties
unknown last night. The occupants of
every house thus visited have relatives
serving in the Royal Irish Con-
stabulary. The tenants were In some
cases gagged and bound, the furniture
was drenched with kerosene and set on
FIRE, and in some instances the help
less people were left to the mercy Of
the flames by the raiders, who fed in
automobiles,
The raids we're in all ways similar to
those made in suburban districts Of
London and in this city Saturday
night.
One house that was raided was oc-
cupied by Mrs. Jennins, a widow. and
her daughter. The latter opened the
door when there was a knock, and she
was seized by the throat by the in
truder. She struggled and fed to her
mother, and then tainted. The women
were too terrified to raise an alarm.
In another house were three sisters
who were overawed by dozen men,
who displayed revolvers and threat
ened to shoot them If they stirred. The
men then ignited the furniture and
fled. A neighbor saw the flames and
upon going to the house found the
women's clothing in flames from fires
that have been in the bedding. Fire
men arrived in time to save the build
ing. Two men who tried to seize the
fleeing raiders were stabbed, but were
not seriously injured.
In another house q man seventy
years old was attacked and beaten
with poker. He was then gagged
and bound, and clothing and bedding
was piled on the floor and ignited. The,
mans aged wife collapsed, but he,
while bound, managed to struggle to
a police station and give an alarm.
A retired sailor named Wilson
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