A local Justice of the Peace (JP), J G Alcorn, was shot at by 3 masked men, as he and another man was driving to Mass this morning¹. He was wounded by pellets but was able to make it to the church in Correndulla. He  subsequently recovered. A local widow and her sons – tenants 0f the JP – had been served with eviction – their relatives were questioned in connection with the attack but released.

Connacht Tribune, Saturday, January 12th 1918, p2.