Word: mccartan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...systematic terror began in October 1972, when Hamilton's nephew, James Patrick McCartan, a Catholic, was dragged from a wedding party by members of a still legal Protestant vigilante force, the Ulster Defense Association. A pathologist's report and the confession of his killer indicate that McCartan was taken to a U.D.A. where he was battered in the face with pick handles, stabbed repeatedly, then hoisted by his ankles to a roof beam and dropped head first to the floor below -all in an apparent effort to gain information. McCartan, his killer said, groaned out the names...
...March Hospital Guard David Glennon, 45, a Catholic cousin of Mrs. Hamilton, was found shot in the head. On New Year's Day, another Catholic cousin, John Whyte, 24, a laundry presser, was shot dead by a sniper. Lily Hamilton was saying good night to her brother, Noel McCartan, 26, a laborer, when a gunman fired two quick bursts and Noel fell dying in front...