Part 39 - Executions of Edward Foley, Patrick Maher, and William Mitchell

1 p.; clipping

A clipping of a report on the executions in Mountjoy Jail of Edward Foley and Patrick Maher, who were convicted of having shot an RIC sergeant, Patrick Wallace, during an ambush in Knocklong in May 1919. Reference is also made to the execution of Constable William Mitchell, who was convicted of the murder of Robert Dixon, a magistrate who was killed during a robbery at his home in Dunlavin in County Wicklow. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (7 June 1921).