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Worried police officers telephoned word of the posters to Dublin. Not only were the Orangemen gathering, but the "Irish Republican Army", that die-hard minority which has never accepted the Free State government of President Cosgrave, was taking a hand...
Things looked so serious to Dublin that a detachment of grey-green Free State troops was sent to Cootehill. Speaking nothing but Gaelic, they were considered safe from the propaganda of Orangemen and Republicans both. General Owen O'Duffy, head of the Irish Army and Chief Commissioner of the Civic Guard, rushed north to take charge at Cootehill in person...
Morning after the baton charge, the General telegraphed Dublin: EASIER ALTHOUGH A TENSE FEELING PREVAILS...
David O'Shea, a farm boy from Knock Naloman, County Cork, walked to the scaffold in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin at dawn last week. Outside the gates a morbid crowd cursed the Irish police that hanged him. It was not that they thought David O'Shea innocent, but to the Irish mind he had been caught by unfair means. Irishmen expect sportsmanship in their policemen...
Farmer Cronin roundly declared his innocence, swore that his bicycle had been stolen the night before. Irish detectives went to work. Suspicion veered toward young David O'Shea, another of Dairymaid Ellen's suitors. A Dublin sleuth slipped into David's little whitewashed hut and hid under a bed for many hours. There he overheard a whispered conversation between David O'Shea and his sister. Sister O'Shea went out of the cabin with a bucket containing one yellow woolen sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth...