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Mon 09 Sep 1996TREATMENT OF 1916 LEADERS
Sir, - Referring to recent correspondence on this subject, an article by Ms. Anne Cahill in the Sunday Independent of November 28th, 1993, refers to a Mr. Joseph Sweeney who was present in the Rotunda Gardens where the Easter Week prisoners were held after the surrender. He identified the officer responsible for maltreating Thomas Clarke as Percival Lea Wilson, a 28 year old Englishman who was a captain in the RIC at the time.
Ms. Cahill quotes Joseph Sweeney relating how, in the bar of the Wicklow Hotel, he heard Michael Collins recounting the shooting dead of Lea Wilson on a road near Gorey, Co. Wexford (in 1919) and linking the event with the Rotunda Gardens surrender.
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