ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 ...

4.it looks like as if they are looking for you". I got up,put on my clothes and went out. I called the other ladsthat were near me, the Lynch's, who were also Volunteers.We got out into a back field and we remained there. Thenext thing we saw was the house being surrounded. We werejust outside the cordon and we watched the performanceuntil it was all over. The Lynch's went into another houseand I went into the house of a schoolteacher bythe name ofBuckley and slept with him that night. Next day there was afair in a place called Ballybruid, about two miles away.When the people were going home from the fair in the morning,there was a man by the name of Tom Watters, a brother ofDickie's, who was up to lately an army dental officer.Tom was a farmer. I sat up on the car with him and hedropped me at his own house. I got up on another car at hishouse and I went on towards Limerick. Just as we were passingthe Creamery at Beary's Gross, I hopped off the car and wentinto the Creamery. while I was inside speaking to theManager, I saw my brother and he cycling like hell down theroad. The next thing I saw was four policemen and theycycling after him. He went on to a place called Killonan,where he went into the railway station there and thenturned back. The police went searching around the stationfor him. When he came back to where I was, I met him onthe road and said, "What's up?". "Oh!", he said, "Theyare looking for you". I left him and he went away backhome. I went across the fields and got away. So that wasthe first experience I had with the police. It would beabout June, 1918.Having got away from the police that day, I lay lowfor a while then. I used go back at night and. train theVolunteers. I had to go to Castleconnell and the otherCompanies, on account of being Adjutant of the 3rd