Caroline Street - March 1 1921

On the first day of March 1921 Lieutenant Hammond from Victoria Barracks was searching people outside the door of the General Post Office at 4pm on George Street (today Oliver Plunkett Street.) Hammond, who was an Inteligience Officer, noticed five men run past. He pursued the men up Caroline Street where he saw them run around the back of No. 13.

Hammond entered a building next to No.13 and got up to the roof from where he could spy the five men hiding in the yard next door. Hammond fired on the men who in turn fired back.

The five men then entered the back door of No.13 Caroline Street which was serving as a boarding house and Hammond continued shooting at them. One of those lodging there was 30 year old Daniel Casey, an unmarried man who worked as a docker. Casey came out of his room to see what all the commotion was and just as he did, a bullet from the gun of Hammond smashed through a window and hit Casey in his chest. The docker stumbled back into his room and from there he was taken to the North Infirmary where he died.

The landlady of No. 13 Caroline Street later recalled in a military inquiry that she heard gun fire and smashing of glass. She stated how she heard Casey shout out "I'm shot! I'm shot!!" She also claimed that she saw Casey's shooter, Hammond, on the roof of a store opposit the back yard of her house. The inquiry came to the conclusion that Casey's death was "as a result of misadventure."