Times, Co. Tipperary, Ireland - 1918
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The Times

1918

January 7 1918

The Nenagh Murder.

At the Inquest in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, on GEORGE
SHEEHAN, who was killed in his own house while trying to
prevent three masked and armed men from stealing a rifle
belonging to his son, a soldier, home on leave from
France. Mrs SHEEHAN aged 70, stated that while she and
her husband were in the house after her son had gone out
three masked men entered. Her husband grappled with one
of them, and shots were fired. Her husband cried out
that he was wounded. The men then left with her son's
rifle. Sergeant DAUGHTON, of the Royal Irish
Constabulary, said that the old man, who was 76 years of
age, told him that he had his assailant under him on the
ground, when the latter shot him in the stomach with a
revolver. He continued to hold him by the throat, and
the man then shot him in the wrist and disabled him. The
Police and Military are searching for the stolen rifle.

January 12 1918

Three arrests have been made of men alleged to have been
concerned in the murder of the old army pensioner GEORGE
SHEEHAN, at his home near Nenagh, a short time ago.
SHEEHAN lost his life while trying to prevent three
masked and armed men from stealing a rifle belonging to
his son, a soldier home on leave from the front. The men
arrested are three brothers named O'BRIEN, the sons of a
woman who was postmistress in the Silvermines district,
of Tipperary, up to a few weeks ago. Two of them are
National School Teachers, and the third who was a
postman for a time, is a Captain in the Sinn Fein
Volunteers, Their Father who is dead, was a Policeman.
The accused men, who are in Limerick gaol, have been
remanded for 8 days.