New Britain herald., 1922-03-24
IRISH RAIDERS IN
 BELFAST SHOOT '
 IN SINGLE FAMILY
Male Members Awakened From Sleep, Lined Up Against Wall
 and Shot Down
ULSTER C0NSTABLES AND
 SINN FEINERS IN BATTLE

No Serious Casualties Are Itcportcu on Either Sidc-City of Belfast Stirred By Latest and Most Hor- riblc Atrocity.
 Belfast, March 24, (By Associated Press) "A band of men forced their way into the home of owen Mac Ma hon, a saloon-keeper, early this morn- ing and shot seven members of the family, News of the raid has stirred the entire city.
 MacMahon and three of his sons were killed outright, another son died of his wounds, and two others are near death. The crime is thought to have been in reprisal for the shoot ing of a number of special constables in May street yesterday.
 Lined Up and Shot. At about 1:2o o'clock the raiders who are reported to have worn uni forms, smashed the door of the Mac Mahon home in the north end of the city and rushed downstairs where the occupants of the house were sleep ing. The male members of the fam fly were taken down to the living room, lined up against the wall and riddled with bullets.
 Find Seven in Bloody Pool.
 The shootings were heard by occu- pants by a nearby house who notified the Glenravel street barracks. Mrs MacMahon and her daughter rushed down to the living room when the at tackers departed and found the seven lying on the floor in pools of blood three of the bodies in a heap.
 When the police arrived they found the women in a state of collapse. Am balances took the victims to the hos pital where it was found that foul already were dead. The matTon o1 the hospital reports that the two wounded sons are very weak.
 One Son Escapes.
 Another son who was ordered into the room escaped hy throwing him self under a lounge and was unin iured although two shots were fret at him.
 An ambulance attendant collapsed after helping carry the bodies into tho hospital although hardened witl scenes of bloodshed
 The son who crawled under the lounge was a six year old child who was taken from his bed at the same time as the other members of the family.
 Mrs. MacMahon pleaded tearfully but in vain with the assassns to spare the family. Then she screamed from the window to a nursing home ad joining to summon help.
 The MacMahons are a Catholic family.
 Six Hour Fight
 A six hour running fight occurred between Ulster special constables ant Sim Feiners in the vicinity of Car rickmore, County Tyrone, yesterday The fighting started when 50 of the police in two motor lorries were am pushed outside the town. The am pushing party was concealed behind bank on the roadside and opened fir, at distance of 1000 yards.
 The police immediately jumped ou of their cars and engaged the attack ing band which retreated across tho hills, leaving a small party to hal the pursuit, which continued fol several hours nevertheless, with ire quent exchanges of shots.
 At least five Sim Feiners are be lieved to have been hit. One, witt a bullet in the leg, was found under bad in a house which was raidet during the chase. Bullets pierced the capes of several of the specials but none of them was wounded
 quantity of equipment dropped b, the ambushing party was captured.
 Three More Murders
 Three murders were reported toda, from Nthe Fermanagh- Tyrone border The victims were Frank Kelly, Ed ward Mclaughlin and William Gas sidy. All were found shot to death It is believed the murders were il rcprisa for the recent terrorism a Trillick, County Tyrone, in whicl Samuel Laird, an Ulster special con stable, was shot and killed and mum erous unionist houses were burned.
 The Y. M. C. A. hall here was com mandeered today for occupancy by { British regiment. Another British regiment which has just arrived i stationed at Clandeboye, near Bel fast.
 At a unionist meeting here last eve ring Lady Craig, wife of the premier announced that she had received { letter from a friend in London stat ing that in greater London there wer, already l5,000 men waiting to takt
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 Another Fatally.
 Joseph Campbell, al Belfast city of ficial. was shot and killed by a snipel in Newlodge Road this afternoon.