South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-03
FOUR KILLED IN
GRIM REPRISALS.
ON. SINN FEINERS
Belfast Orgy of Shootings and
Assassinations Reaps
Heavy Toll.
ATROCITIES DENOUNCED
Protestant Bishop Calls Upon
People to LOathe Foul
Murders.

BELFAST, April -Four men
were shot and killed and three chill
dren were wounded Saturday night
in the Sim F'ein area near the old
Lodge road district. The ages of the
men ranged from 40 to %. The
children two. seven and 13 years
old.
It was another grim wound for
Belfast The shooting Of the men
is believed to have been in reprisal
for the Killing Saturday Of Constable
George Turner, who had been a reg
ular policeman for IA years. The
assassin fired at Turner from a va
cant house and made his escape.
The news Of the shooting Of the po-
liceman spread rapidly and despite
the curfew hour last night there
were scenes of excitement i'm the
streets.
Later heavy rife and revolver fir
ing punctuated with the shrieks Of
women and children, was heard and
shortly afterward the bodies Of the
four men were taken to a hospital
where the three wounded children
also were conveyed. The father OF
the children. Joseph Walsh. was one
Of the men who was shot and killed.
All the killings took place in the
homes Of the victims
Walsh was lying in bed with the
two younger children. and the bullet
which killed him. wounded them.
Two year old Bridget was shot
through the head.
Lost If Sons in War.
Frank Walsh, a son of Joseph
Walsh, was stopping with his grand
mother few doors distant from
the Walsh home. The grandmothers
house was also raided The intrud-
ers rushed upstairs, seized Frank
who was trying to make his escape
through a window and pitched him
downstairs. His injuries were not
serious The grandmother said after
the raid that Joseph Walsh had
served five years in the war on the
western front and had returned
home unscathed. She had l3 sons
and nephews in the war, only two
OF whom returned.
And this is my reward on their
return" the old lady sobbed. In the
home Of a relative of the Walsh
family this morning a bullet passed
through the arm Of a neighbor hold
ing a baby and piercing its stomach,
wounded il fatally.
The body Of a young man was
found lying in the road at midnight
last night three miles from Newry.
There were two bullet wounds IN
his head and a bicycle lay beside
the body. Papers in the mans peck
cts bore The name of Garvey
Burn Orange Hall.
Orange Hall, near Newry and
close to the scene Of the recent train
burning. was destroyed early sun
day morning Armed men ordered
out the woman caretaker and her
four children. threw out the furn.-
ture and set fire to the building The
woman and he- children were left
i'm the darkness on the bleak noun
tainside until they were befrieuded
by neighbors.
At Waterford Sunday Protestant
Bishop Nilar OF Cashel. speaking
on the terrible events in North Ire
land said he had consulted with
the clergy and men prominent I'm ali
denominations who had voiced the
opinion thai "the names of Catholics
and Protestants are being used in
connection with some Of the foules
deeds that have ever disgraced a
country.
"All Christians" the preiate add
ed ARE ca led upon 10 s8y they
luathe and abh0r such actions, by
whomsoever murders are committed
and 10 regard such men as The d.
rect eulissariee Of satan"