Black and Tans Murder Local Magistrate, Wicklow 1921

#OnThisDay 1921 During a robbery, local magistrate Robert Dixon was murdered by two Black and Tans, William Mitchell & Arthur Hardie in Dunlavin, Wicklow. Hardie took his own life the next day so Mitchell (pic) was charged and later hanged for this crime.

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