A number of armed ruffians of the Sinn Fein organization
attacked private houses in London, St. Albans, and Liverpool last Saturday night. Their apparent object was to wreak vengeance on the families of men belonging to the Royal Irish Constabulary. At St. Albans an ex-constable and his wife were shot and badly wounded. At Shepherd's Bush Mr. Horace McNeil, the father-in-law of a constable, was fatally shot in the body ; he died on Wednesday. At Catford an elderly man and his wife, who had no connexion with Irish affairs, were attacked and seriously injured. In other suburbs the Sinn Feiners tried to set fire to the houses which they entered. At Liverpool six houses were attacked ; the raiders bound and gagged the old men and the women who were at home, and then set the houses on fire with paraffin. All these cowardly miscreants escaped. The police have, however, begun to hunt down the Sinn Fein conspirators who have hitherto enjoyed immunity in England. Sixteen persons had been arrested in London up to Wednesday.
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