“Thunder & lightening & fearful rain last night. I had a cold somehow, I didn’t go out. The news of the murder of Alan Bell was in this day’s paper – the worst yet, of course, much worse than common policemen. It was the first piece of agreeable news for a long time. It is wonderful that it could be done so openly with no danger of interference.”
Week 122: (19th – 21st March 1920)
“I spent the afternoon reading The House of Fear, which was interesting most of the way through, but turned out very disappointingly in the end. I believe it was on Saturday that the news appeared of the murder of the mayor of Cork M’Curtain, the night before, by a party of men who broke into the home”