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Perhaps the most ghastly of all the long series of

ghastly murders in Belfast was committed in the early hours of Friday morning, March 24th. A Roman Catholic publican, Mr. Ow en McMahon, was visited by a band of armed men, and Mr. McMahon, his five sons and the manager of the public-house- were shot in the most brutal and cold-blooded way. The men were dragged out of their beds, taken into another room, and shot one by one. A small boy who crept under the sofa escaped. It is suggested that this brutal crime was a reprisal for the murder of two special constables the day before. But finding motives is only guessing. All that one can say with certainty is that this kind of horror is the result of the atmosphere of crime which has spread all over Ireland.

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