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The Murder of Patrick Howard: A Case Study of Police Crime in the War of Independence by D. M. Leeson is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Murder of Patrick Howard: A Case Study of Police Crime in the War of Independence about?
On the evening of 12 February 1921, at about 8:45 pm, a woman named Elizabeth Dillon heard someone calling outside her home in the village of Balscadden, Co. Dublin. She went to the front door but saw no one. She then went to the back door, where she heard a man say, "Let me in" and "Send for the priest-I am dying." When she asked who it was, the voice replied: "Pat Howard." Opening the door, Dillon helped the injured man into her kitchen, where he lay down on the floor in great pain. She then went for Patrick's brother-in-law, who sent for the priest. The brother-in-law and two other men came to Dillon's house and took Howard home. 1 Sometime after 9 pm the local medical officer, Dr. William Fullam, went to Howard's home and examined him. He had been shot-once in the abdomen and twice in the right arm. Dr. Fullam rendered first aid and sent him to Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin. 2 The wounded man arrived at the hospital around midnight, when he was 1. Deposition of Elizabeth Dillon, 3 Mar. 1921 (National Archives of the United Kingdom [hereafter cited as TNA], PRO, HO 351/83). 2. Deposition of William Fullam, 3 Mar. 1921 (ibid.).
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- Author
- D. M. Leeson
- Publisher
- Project MUSE; Irish American Cultural Institute (ISSN 1550-5162)
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences