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Members of the Bar and
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The following contribution to
THE HONGKO
IRELAND'S TRAGEDY.
How Michael Callins Met His End.
Under dåte Ang, 23, the Dublin
the city, he was warned that a Įparty of men had been told oil to
shoot him.
Michael Collins took a revolver. with him and kept a sharp look- out for the would-be assassins, and going round a ture, be sam of the Daily four men in a orouching position a London daily bas some interest correspondent here having regard to a recent Chronicle thus describes the tragic against the opposite wall.
Ho, daabed up to them with Ordinance, but one rather eurend of General Michael Collins, mises that "Eldon Junior," the Commander-in-Chief of the Irish drawn revolver, and ordered them to put their hands up, acting so author of the article, is "quizzing:"Free State Army:
General Michael Collins, Com-suddenly that the men were com I have long ceased to affect
Addressing the leader, whose surprise at any suggestion thrown mander-in-Chief of the Irish Free pletely taken aback. out in these hurrying and reck-State Army, was killed last night less times. Public and private in an ambush near his birthplace name he had learned, Collins said: lite alike are liable to these (Clonakilty) in County Cork. irruptions from persons singular-
I am told you want-me; wall
"I did Lot want you at all,” give a full account of what hapnswered the man in a trembling pened.
voice.
Vers
well," said Collins, right about face, march, and
Those who were present when I am here now, what do you ly insensitive to the traditions of he was killed are so overwrought want me for?' the past and the necessities of that they have not yet been able to order in the present.
Our public arrangements are peculiarly open to these incur- sions. A certain faultiness may be detected at intervals bul, in the main, these arrangements have stood successfully the test of years. At any rate, if any changs be required (and I am so far out of the fashion, as to think that little if any change is needed), then the alteration should be undertaken with t coming respect.
It is bad enough to interfere with practices sanctioned by the wisdom of our forbears. To be rushed into them, by a sort of fox trot, is intolerable.
I am moved to this protest by some strange proceedings at recent meeting of the La
Society.
It was complained that, on occasion, counsel was not avail able in the bigh Court when a case
The Commander-in-Chief was with Major-General Dalton, the
Ha watched them out of sight. officer in charge of the troops in clear." Cork: Commandant Dolan, Mili- tary Governor of Mountjoy Pri-and afterwards remarked, "That beyond doubt," but he refused to json; and a sergeant-major named quarterte intended to do for me
Conway.
allow any further action to ba taken in the matter.
General Colline and his party were in an open touring car, and were accompanied by a guard.
They were returning from Ban- don to Macroon, baving been on a tour of inspection, and had just Passed through a little village called Bealnablath, when they ran into the ambush.
A large parts of Irregulate, taking advantage of the hilly and wooded country, bad concealed the criselves near the road, and as General Collins's car approached they opened fire without giving any warning.
ABOUT TO BE MARRIED. General Collios was to have been married within the peri week or fortnight
He had been engaged for
Kiernan, of Granard, Co. Long- several months to Miss Killy ford, and the wedding was at first fixed to take place at the begin ning of this meath.
Urgent pressure of duties, which constantly took him to various parts of the country, caused its postponement.
General Collins had arranged Nobody was hit by the first volley, and the Commander-in-10 return in time for the opening was resched. In these circum-Chief and his companions jumped of Parliament, fixed for Saturday. stances, it was actually suggested out of their car and returned the MESSAGE TO THE FREE STATE
ARMY. that the solicitor in the causete. should be empowered to conduct Heavy exchanges took place the case in counsel's absence.
for about half an hour, and when it was thought that the attackers had been beaten off. General! Collins, who bad fought all the time fell mortally wounded.
It was even contended that this arrangement would bring satis faction to the lay client. But the outrageousness of the proposal pales before the reception it was accorded. By a strange aberra tioc, the Law Society adopted the idea.
He was hit by a bullet in the bead at the back of the ear.
The following message WAS issued to the Free State Army by G.H.Q-
"Stand calmly by your posts. Bend bravely and undaunted to your work. Let no cruel act of your bright reprisal blemish bonou:
"Every dark hour that Michael Collins met since 1916 reemed but to steel that bright strength of his and temper bis gay bravery.
"You are left. each, inheritors of that strength and that bravery. To each of you falls bis unfinish- |
No darkness in the hour, no
He only survived a short time." but a moment or two before he However painful the subject died he said "Forgive them."
The tight continued, and shortly may be to those who have not lost the respect due to ancient afterwards General Dalton was things, this monstrosity must be slightly wounded. One of the motor dricers was bit. and a taken into consideration.
The evil sought to be cured is cyclist who accompanied the ed work. a serious one. The absence of party was wounded in the neck. counsel from their duties infti- quently as it occurs) presents an important difficulty, but the wie dom of our ancestors has provid- ed an adequate remedy. The an- cient order of "devils" is still in being, although its recruitment is not satisfactory.
The indisposition: of young gentlemen in these days to work
The ambushers then retrested, and the party of soldiers returned sadly to Cork with the body of the Commander-in-Chief.
NATIONAL IDOL. No event in Ireland has stirred the people more deeply.
Michael Collins was something more than a national hero. He was the idol of his country, a
for nothing is really startling. fromantie, picturesque figure, who The honour of acting gratuitous bad come to be regarded almost
manhood.
15 in the place of another who as a symbol of Ireland's young' has been bandsomely paid is not regarded as it used to be. The absence of that other on business
At early morn to-day, when the news of his death was passed
in
for which he has also been amply round the military centres remunerated does not (as it once Dublin, soldiers were nearly in
did) improve the situation. The tears.
chance of succeeding. in due
course, to these opportunities has
PLOT AGAINST HIS LIFE
General Collins knew that his
lost much of its old attraction. life was in danger, but he per-
This is much to be deplored.istently disregarded his
Not only are such reversions to safety.
be cultivated for their own sake,
own
He refused to travel about in
but the prospects of advancement an armoured
C&T with a big
in a noble profession they hold escort, although he was told there out should be eagerly sought by was a plot against his life. young barristers.
Even when his car was sm-
WAS
I can assure them (as one who pushed on Friday, and it has done it) that the opportunities obvious that his enemies were of being paid for work one has determined on his death, he still not performed are rapidly dimin-declined to shield himself.
"If they want to kill me, they ishing- Indeed in no other direction than the Bar are such must," he remarked with a abrug admirable chances to be gained. of his broad shoulders.
"He didn't care: he had abso- The "devils should combine to save the ramparts of the lawlutely no fear, no thought for from the corroding breaches of himself." an old friend of his said!
to me to-day. time.
All Ireland is stunned by the Such is the true cure for the Bituation the Law Society, in its news of his sad end. precipitation, rushed to inflame.DUBLIN FLAGS AT HALF MAST. Every Bag in Dublin is at ha!!! The solicitor, by some strange indisposition of Providence, in mast and the city is stricken variably is wacting in respect for with grief.
That he should have been killed the barrister. Unlike bis fathers before him, he fails to realise thelia so crual a form of warfare, which often gives the attacked
special talents the barrister brings
i
to his work and the awe thereby no chance, has aroused fierce Bet up in the client's mind.
au-
military anger, but the thorities have warned the troops against indulging in reprisals.
The remains of the dead com- mander-in chief were placed on a steamer in Cork harbour.
But the deficiencies of the olicitor fally weighed as they ja in the Temple are beside the mak. We cannot tolerate these tionary ideas in the sacred
It is expected that the boat will: territe of the law. For if the Yar is to maintain their ancient arrive in Dublin late to-night. way, no enormity C&D ba resisted
HY HUSTLERS.
LYING-IN-STATE.
General Collins is to be given & national funeral with fall military bououts.
There will be a ring-in-state Morton Fwkins, & millionaire in Dublin, and afterwards his of Portland (Ind) and Miss remains will be interred at Glas- Fannie Many, the 17-year-old nevin Cemetery, where Parnell is daughter of a millionaire banker buried, and where Arthur Griffith of Atlanta, he established & was laid to rest a week ago. record in matribonial adventure. Some months ago there was an A fortnight afte they first met attempt made on his life while he County Cork, but they were marria). At the end was, in
of two weeks of vedded "bliss" he did not allow the incident to the girl wife brought a suit for be published at the time. divorce, which is bo "fought As he was starting out to visit. to a finish."
a sister living on the outskirts of
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