Henry Wilson
Coogan & Mackay have examined Tobin's involvement in the assassination of British Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson:
Wilson's public tirades about Michael Collins was evidence of mutual personal dislike between the two men. In May 1922 Collins told Tobin "We'll kill a member of that bunch" to the news of "bloody pogroms" in Belfast. Wilson had been intimately involved with the pro-Unionist cause including the Curragh Mutiny and the establishment of B Specials.
Just before the shooting, Coogan places Tobin in London. He met courier Peig Ni Braonain at Euston Station collecting a document that had been independently sent from Dublin to London. Returning to Dublin before the incident, Tobin was jubilant when he told defence minister, Richard Mulcahy about Wilson's death. Mulcahy was appalled and threatened to resign.
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