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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...
After the trial. O'Shea's lawyer appealed to the British Privy Council for David. First such appeal to London since the formation of the Irish Free State, it was refused...
...last week David O'Shea sat in his cell without speaking, without moving. He never confessed. On the scaffold the trap was sprung by an executioner from England, a Mr. Pierpont...
...Boyle, c.f. 4 2 1 1 0 0 Herlihy, 2b. 4 2 2 3 2 0 O'Donnell, s.s. 4 2 1 1 2 0 Smith, l.f. 4 1 0 2 0 0 Anderson, 3b. 4 1 1 0 1 0 O'Shea, r.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Sheehan, 1b. 4 0 0 5 0 0 O'Connor, c. 4 1 0 13 0 0 Gilligan...