The Sinn Fein party perpetrated a peculiarly atrocious murder on
Sunday at Bandon. Police Sergeant Mulhern had entered the Roman Catholic church to attend Mass, and was dipping his fingers in the holy water font when he was shot dead by two Sinn Feiners biding in the porch. This horrible sacrilege seems to have been too much for the local clergy, who put the murderers under an interdict. But it may be doubted whether the Roman Church in Ireland can now restrain the murderous gang whose outrages it has watched so long and so complacently. Several other policemen have been murdered during the week. Moreover, the Sinn Feiners have begun to attack the troops. A corporal of the Essex Regiment while on patrol duty at Bandon was assassinated on Tuesday. At Ennistymon last week two officers, while returning to barracks, were assaulted by a number of ruffians who tried to disarm them. The officers drew their revolvers, killed two of their assailants and dispersed the rest. Several coastguard stations, now held by Marines, have also been attacked. The Sam Feiners are really at war with us, though the Government will not admit it.
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