Lord Mayor of Cork Slain in His Home

1920

Six Men Rush Into His Bedroom and Shoot Him

LONDON, England -- The Lord Mayor of Cork, Thomas MacGurin, was shot dead in the middle of the night. The revolver was fired by masked persons whose names are unknown. They entered his residence and after firing the shot escaped in an automobile.

A half dozen men knocked at the door of the home of the Lord Mayor, Mrs. MacGurin opened the door and the men rushed in. Some of them held her while others ran upstairs to the mayor's bedroom. They took him to the landing and shot him in the chest. Then they fled.

Mrs. MacGurin telephoned immediately for a doctor and a priest. The mayor died soon after the arrival of the priest.

Mayor MacGurin, a prominent Sinn Feiner, was interned after the Eastern rebellion.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 2.