The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-23
MARSHAL WILSON
 KILLED IN LONDON
 BY TWO ASSASSINS
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 hand and raised his head. He is dying, he Is dyingv she cried fran tically to a group of laborers near by
 Lay In Pool of Blood
 The field marshal lay in pool of blood, with no sign of life. Servants carried him into the house. His but Ter, former soldier, felt the pulse and announced that he was dead.
 Lady Wilson knelt beside him and kissing him. exclaimed:
 Well. they have done their cruel work at last. But you have died like a soldier. God will be merciful to yout"
 Meanwhile, outside the house, the assassins were trying desperately to escape. A workman had wit messed the shooting struck one of the sunmen over the head with a milk bottle, but he struggled to his feet and made off with his companion.
 The crowd gathered quickly, and the assassins attempted to board motor car but were frustrated. They then ran down the street. A dozen policemen joined in the chase. and they were reinforced by not less than 2oQ civilians, who rounded up the two men, The police attacked them with their truncheons. The infuriated crowd of men, women and children tried to tear one who aimed his re- volver at an officer. to pieces He was hit on the head with a shovel a ct k. fell with blood streaming from his forehead. The police had difficulty in preventing him from being kicked and trampled to death.
 Surrenders Quietly
 The other murderer, a slim youth of medium height. and apparently lame. was surrounded blythe police and surrendered quietly. Both were taken to the Gerald road police sta- ton, a hundred yards away. Arriv- ing there. the taller of the two, who apparently was the leader, lay on the floor because of his injuries
 A civilian asked: Who are your" and he replied:
 T am an Irishman. l could have got more of you ~chaps if l hadn't been afraid of hitting the Kids"
 The civilian said:
 You are dirty blackguard"
 T was only firing blank shots at the last" But the revolver when ex- amined was found to contain lead bullets.
 Constable March was shot in the abdomen in the course of the pursuit and was taken to a hospital, where his condition is considered grave.
 All London Mortified
 All London was horrified by the tragedy. The house of commons ad- journed after sympathetic speeches by H. H. Asquith and Austin Cham berlain. The king cancelled tomor- rows birthday dinner for the Prince of Wales.
 England for more than a century has been particularly free from po- litical assassinations Apart from the shock of the untimely death of a popular soldier and a member of the commons in the prime of life, all discussion turned to the political as- poets of the affair.
 The sinister methods of the Irish factional strife had not been inn ported to England before, despite threats which necesstated special police protection for the premier and OtHtT tdklHB part in Irish affairs. The newspapers de- mand measures to keep England free of Irish gunmen and their ter rorism. Field Marshal Wilson hav- ing been shining mark for the hat rcd of the republicans because soon after his election as member of the house of commons for County Down he accepted an invitation from Sir James Craig to visit Ulster and ad- dress the northern government on the best measures for military de- fense against the south
 Supported Orange Faction
 By birth northern Irish man. Field Marshal Wilson had been a life long supporter of the Orange faction, and whatever definite effect his death may have. there seer-s no possibility that 1t will have other than to Intensity the bitterness per- vading the Irish situation, which seemed on the eve of quieting Gown after the recent elections.
 The field marshal created politi- cal sensation early In the year by his attacks on Premier Lloyd George. with whom during the war he was on terms of cordial intimacy. In let ter to Sir James Craig he declared 1t was due to the action of Premier Lloyd George and his government that south and west Ireland were reduced to . welter of chaos and