The Dublin Riots. " Further Evidence as to Baton Charges."
 
The inquiry into the conduet of the Dublin police on the on the occasion of the August riots was resumed yesterday, when further police evidence was given.
Constable Power stated that before the baton charge the rush of the crowd was such as nearly to sweep the whole body of police off their feet. It was necessary for the police, he said, to usetheir batons, and he used his. The rougher element in the crowd forced respectable people against the police. Mrs Bristowe, wife of the manager of the Northern Bank, Sackville Street, described how she was caught in the rush of the crowd in Sackville Street, and was, with her husband, escorted by a policeman to a place of safety. She saw anold lady with her arms about a policeman, who apparently did not know what to do with her. Two or three persons were batoned in her presence: One man put his head under her husband's arm as if to shield himself.
  Detective Revell, a police note-taker, read excerpts from Larkin's speeches. In one of them, delivered a few days before the date of the pro-claimed meeting, Larkin said " I am going into O'Connell Street alive or dead on Sunday, and i will depend on you to take me out if i am dead." It was at this meeting that the Castle proclamation was burned.
 
Policeman Wounded.

The riots in the Corn Market were described by several police witnesses. In one instance it was stated a crowd of 300 attacked seven policemen who were guarding a tram. Stones and bottles were used by the crowd, and every one of the police was wounded.
    Wm, F.O' Donnell, a civilian, detailed particulars of the baton charge in Princes Street, of  which he was a victim. He got four baton blows on his head and body. At this time there was, he said, a forest of batons about him. He produced the clothing he wore at the time, every article of which was thickly covered with blood. He was last out of the street, and was afraid he would bleed to death," At any rate," said witness, "I said i would die game. I repeated the Confiteor and an act of contrition" Witness said he was still suffering from hysterical fits.
  The inquiry was adjourned till Monday. 

Ref :- Newcastle Journal - Saturday 10th January 1914.