Editing Bloody Sunday (1920) (section)

== 22 Lower Mount Street trial ==
The trial for the Lower Mount Street killings was held as a Field General Court-martial at [[City Hall, Dublin|City Hall]] in Dublin, on Tuesday 25 January 1921. The four accused men were [[William Conway (Irish republican)|William Conway]], Daniel Healy, Edward Potter, and [[Frank Teeling]]. Daniel Healy was excused by the prosecution and given a separate trial after a petition by counsel that the evidence against the other prisoners would embarrass his client. The trial of the three other prisoners proceeded. They were charged with the murder of Lieutenant H. Angliss of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, otherwise known as Mr McMahon of 22 Lower Mount Street. The whole of Ireland was enthralled by the trial, with most Irish newspapers and international newspapers reporting it.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tuesday 25th January 1921 Lancashire Evening Post |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000711/19210125/080/0003 |date=25 January 1921 |website=British Newspaper Archive |access-date=27 March 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wednesday 26th January Yorkshire Post |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19210126/197/0008 |date=26 January 1921 |access-date=27 March 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Thursday 27th January Londonderry Sentinel |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001480/19210127/031/0003 |date=27 January 1921 |access-date=27 March 2018 }}</ref>

The prosecution opened with an account of the start of the incident:
{{quote|At about 9 o'clock two men came to the front door, one of whom asked for Mr. McMahon and the second for Mr. B. The men dashed upstairs and one of them, the prisoner Conway, went to Mr. B.'s room. The other man went to Mr. McMahon's door. The men knocked at the doors, and more men with revolvers came into the house and ran up the stairs. The servant called out to warn Mr. McMahon, and she saw Teeling enter the room followed by others. He called out "Hands up," and Mr. McMahon and a companion occupying the same room were covered with revolvers by five men, two of whom would be identified as Teeling and Potter. Mr B. barricaded his door, and Conway fired shots through it&nbsp;... Mr. McMahon's companion got under the bed while Mr. McMahon was being shot, and the men left. It was then found that Mr. McMahon was dead, having been wounded in four parts of the body.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dublin Murder Trials Begun |work=The Times |date=26 January 1921}}</ref>}}

Mr "C"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cairogang.com/escaped/connolly/connolly.html|title=Lt John Connolly Leinster Regiment – Mr 'C' trial witness|work=The Cairo Gang| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130407081142/https://www.cairogang.com/escaped/connolly/connolly.html | archive-date = 7 April 2013 }}</ref> was brought forward as a witness on 28 January and was identified as the man sleeping in the same bed who escaped by jumping out the window when the attackers came into the room. Mr "C" was identified as Lieutenant John Joseph Connolly.

Mr "B"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cairogang.com/escaped/peel/peel.html|title=Lt Charles R. Peel Lab. Corps. – Mr 'B' trail witness|work =The Cairo Gang | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130407081147/https://www.cairogang.com/escaped/peel/peel.html | archive-date = 7 April 2013 }}</ref> was another trial witness, and he was later identified as Lt Charles R. Peel. His description of the incident during the trial was reported in Hansard:
{{quote|The maid opened the door, twenty men rushed in [the IRA say 11 men], and demanded to know the bedrooms of Mr. Mahon [sic] ... and Mr. Peel. Mr. Mahon [sic]'s room was pointed out. They entered, and five shots were fired immediately at a few inches range. Mr. Mahon [sic] was killed. At the same time others attempted to enter Mr. Peel's room. The door was locked. Seventeen shots were fired through the panels. Mr. Peel escaped uninjured. Meanwhile another servant, hearing the shots, shouted from an upper window to a party of officers of the Auxiliary Division who had left Beggars Bush Barracks to catch an early train southward for duty.}}

The ''[[Irish Independent]]'' (26 January 1921) reported that "Cross examined by a witness at the house, Mr. Bewley said 'he did not see Teeling in the house.' He saw him being carried out from the yard. One witness stated that he took the first witness Nellie Stapleton to Wellington Barracks on 17 December. She was put into a corridor in which there 3 or 4 windows covered with brown paper. Eight prisoners were brought out and the lady pointed out Potter. The man who shared McMahons room, Mr. 'C' also identified Potter."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/01/29/103541049.pdf|title=New York Times Report 29th January 1921|date=29 January 1921|website=New York Times Archive|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-date=24 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224225245/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/01/29/103541049.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

Frank Teeling managed to escape from Kilmainham in a daring raid organised by Collins.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Teeling Escape |url=https://6generationsdublin.weebly.com/frank-teeling.html |work=Generations Dublin |access-date=27 March 2018 |archive-date=28 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328164608/https://6generationsdublin.weebly.com/frank-teeling.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[The Irish Times]]'' reported that on 6 March 1921, the death sentences of Conway and Potter were commuted by the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland|Viceroy of Ireland]] to penal servitude. Daniel Healy was eventually acquitted.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/premium/loginpage?destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnewspaper%2Farchive%2F1921%2F0307%2FPg005.html#Ar00504:8D011B90112D8242B183B2C683C2B18572C6|title=The Irish Times – Page 5 Monday 7 March 1921|date=7 March 1921|website=The Irish Times Archive}} {{subscription required}}</ref>