Drown All the Dogs by Thomas Adcock

Author:Thomas Adcock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 2019-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

GAVAN FITZGERALD FOUND HANGED, ONE-TIME CHIEF OF DUBLIN GARDA

—Investigators Suspect ‘Peep o’Day Boys’—

by Patsy Converse

[14 October 1937]

Lord Gavan Fitzgerald, the prominent barrister and chief of the Dublin Garda during the last three years of the republic’s British rule, is the apparent victim of a bold political assassination. His disemboweled body was discovered early yesterday morning, hanged by the heels from a scrub tree in the rubbish alley that runs back of his home in fashionable Bloor Street.

“A real coup de grâce it was,” said Detective Kerry Devlin, attached to the Lucan station house. “The killers cut out his heart in his bed, dragged out the body and hanged it, and draped the Union Jack around the body, along with an evil sign, lettered in what we believe to be Lord Fitzgerald’s own blood.”

The sign read, “We wish to grow peaceful crops, but we must dig our furrows with the sword.”

Detective Devlin said further, “It’s the work of the Peep o’Day Boys, I’d wager. It’s all according to their violent style. We get the anonymous telephone call at dawn telling us about a dead man in a Bloor Street alley, and we find what we find.”

The barrister Fitzgerald, a loyalist to the Parliament at West-minster throughout the …

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