The Bismarck tribune., 1922-06-22
SINN FEINERS
ACCUSED OF
LATEST MURDER
British Official Had Taken Hand
In Irish Affairs During ,
Rebellion .
ASSAILANTS ARRESTED
Victim Formerly Was Chief OF
The General Staff of
,..., British Army


>... British Army
n, (By the Associated Press)
London, June %. ~ Field Marshal
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was shot
and killed outside his house on Eton
Square, London, this afternoon. ~
The assailants OF the field marshal
were arrested.
The field marshal delivered speech
at the Liverpool Street station in the
city this morning in connection with
the unwilling of war memorial. Ap-
parently he had just returned home
when the tragedy occurred.
While the choice of Field Marshal
Wilson as organizer OF pacification
measures was favorably received in
Ulster, it had a contrary reception in
Southern Ireland. The former British
chief of staff was regarded there with
more or less the same feeling as Sir
Edwarn Carson, the former Ulster
leader, and predictions were freely
voiced in the South that he would be
strongly in sympathy with the Orange
side of the feud between the two
factions. .J
Later reports stated that Field
Marshal Wilson was not killed out
right but that his wounds were ex
pected to prove fatal.
A few minutes after this, however,
it was reported he had died.
A policeman who was near him at
the time of the shooting was wounded.
Military Adviser
A few months ago Field Marshal
Wilson accepted an appointment as
military, adviser to the Ulster gov
ernment and made frequent visits to
Ulster. He spent most of his time
in London, however, attending the
house of commons.
The death of Field Marshal Wilson
was announced in the house of COM
mons by, Austen Chamberlain, the
government leader who moved the adj
journment Of the house as a mark OF
mourning. 49,.
Mr.. Chamberlain stated that the
field marshal's house had been broken
into by two men who carried firearms
and were now in custody and that he
had been shot dead.
The Central News account of the
tragedy says, Field Marshal Wilson
was stepping from his automobile q
few minutes after three o'clock this
afternoon when two men suddenly ap-
peared and opened fire upon him with
revolvers. He was struck by three
shots, the account adds, and died al
most immediately.
An eye witness account of thc
shooting says one of the assailants Of
. the field marshal attempted suicide,
D. shooting himself when capture seemed
near, inflieting serious injury.
= ''>"" Turn Weapons on Police
An eye witness who described the
shooting to the Central News says
that when the field marshal alighted
from his car and was crossing tho
pavement the first shot was fired. The
victim staggered and nearly fell. He
was reeling when the second and third
shots were tired. ~ Four policemen
'h rushed up and the assassins turned
their weapons on the officers. Two
were seriously wounded.
Policemen were actually at the door
of his residence when his assailants
approached and opened fire.
The names of the two men arrested
were given as Connolly and McBrien
Field Marshal Wilson had beer
under police protection for some time
as the authorities had reason to SITS
pect an attempt on his life. ".
The news of the assassination o!
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughe:
Wilson created sensation in Belfast
where, it is feared, it will provoke
reprisals. The Sim Feiners are pop.
ularly blamed for it.
With the Wilson assassination a.
their immediate incentive, the "dit
hard" conservatives will move the ad
journment of the house of commons
tomorrow to obtain statement from
the government as to what steps i
is taking to preserve life in 1relan(
and in England.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughe'
Wilson was formerly chief of the i'm
perial general staff of the British
army. He retired from this post earl:
. in the present year and stood for tn
imperial parliament as Unionist can
didate for North Down, Ireland. Il
was elected member for this Ulste
district on February 81 and shortl
afterwards was appointed by Premie
Craig as listers prime agent for til
restoration Of order.
The field marshal went to Belfas
from England early in March wit
plans for restoring order which n
submitted to the premier.
Two men fired upon the field maj
shall as he was alighting from an al
tomobile after attending war men
orial unveiling where he delivered
speech. Struck by two bullets, he staf
gered and fell. He was carried int
his home where he died before tt
arrival of physicians.
The two assassins fled, closely pu
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