WITNESS STATEMENT NO.76 (EXCERPT)
STATEMENT OF SEAMUS HICKEY, MAIN STREET, MILLSTREET, CO. CORK PERIOD: 1913 TO MAY, 1916. UNIT: MILLSTREET COMPANY, I.V.
We had purchased the single shot .303 rifles in 1914 for 50/- each from Dan Dennehy, Rathmore. He had got 14 of them for sale. I had made a mould for manufacturing slugs in 1915. This had gone round to four Companies; a number of slugs were made and some cartridges loaded with them.
SIGNED: SEAMUS O h-IOCADHE
DATE: 10-12-47
WITNESS: FLORENCE O’DONOGHUE
