Important Capture in Mayo. Prisoners, Munitions, and Dispatches Taken.

Galway Observer, 11th November, 1922

An important capture of prisoners, munitions of war and dispatches disclosing movements and plans, was made on Monday morning by National troops from Ballinrobe.

Two of the National soldiers had motored from Ballinrobe to Anfield to attend a wedding in that village.

It was feared that they had been taken prisoners and a strong force of troops set out for the village in motors and a Crossley tender

They left their cars in charge of a small party about a mile from the village and proceeded through the fields to the house where the wedding festivities were taking place.

They found the house had been attacked and damaged, the owner's daughter wounded and that the motor in which the two soldiers had travelled on had been seized.

The troops followed the track of the car as far as Scardaune, and there, in their houses, which they surrounded, they captured 17 men, including T. Powell, a teacher — Mallett, — and Dr Curran, of Irishtown, as well as several Mausers, Lee—Enfields, a mine, bombs, automatic pistols, despatches from Kilroy disclosing plans of attack on a garrison town in the county. The prisoners were removed to Claremorris under a strong escort.