Burial
Relating the events six years after the killing, his widow Hanna told how the body
...had been put in a sack and buried in the barracks' yard. The remains were given to his father on condition that the funeral would be at early morn and that I be not notified. My husband's father consented unwillingly to do this on the assurance of General Maxwell that obedience would result in the trial and punishment of the murderer.
Re-interment took place on 8 May 1916 at Glasnevin Cemetery.
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