On this day, three members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation dedicated to the ending of British rule in Ireland, were hanged in front of a huge crowd outside the walls of Salford Gaol. The three men, William Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O’Brian were convicted of murdering a police officer while attempting to rescue two leaders of the Brotherhood who were being transported in a horse-drawn police van to Belle Vue Gaol. Unable to force the lock on the van, one of the rescuers placed his pistol at the keyhole of the van to blow the lock, just as the police officer looked through the keyhole to see what was happening outside. The bullet passed through his eye into his brain and killed him. Although none of the defendants was accused of firing the fatal shot, all three were convicted on the basis of joint enterprise for taking part in a criminal enterprise that ended in the killing. Ireland reacted with revulsion and anger to the executions and hailed the three men as political martyrs.
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