TWO JEWS were shot dead in Dublin in separate incidents in November 1923. The motives behind the attacks are unknown but the second murder was carried out unofficially by Free State Army officers. This contemporary report described the shooting.
NO MOTIVE has been found for the murder of Ernest Kahn and the wounding of David Miller at the corner of Stamer Street, South Circular Road, Dublin, at midnight on Wednesday last.
Ernest Kahn, a Jew, aged 24, resided at 36 Lennox Street, and David Miller, also a Jew, aged 21, resided at 25 Victoria Street, Dublin. Both were natives of the city. Mr. Kahn was employed as a clerk in the Department of Agriculture, Upper Merrion Street. The attack upon him and Mr. Miller, coming so soon after the murder of Mr. Goldberg in St. Stephen’s Green, has caused a good deal of uneasiness among the Jewish community.
Mr. Miller, in an interview yesterday, said that Mr. Kahn and he spent Wednesday evening at the Jewish Social Club, 3 Harrington Street. They left the club at 11.30 p.m., in company with another young man, who parted from them at the corner of Stamer Street. He and Kahn then went homeward. At the corner of Lennox Street two young men ordered them to halt. They did so, and the strangers advanced and demanded their names and addresses. The men then asked about their religion, and on hearing that they were Jews said, “Run for it”.
“I ran towards Florence Street, which leads to my home,” said Miller, “and Kahn ran back towards his home at 36 Lennox Street. I had only gone a few yards when I heard shots, and was struck in the shoulder and fell to the ground. Three shots, as well as I remember, were fired at Kahn. I looked back, saw Kahn lying on the road, and heard him moaning. He was not able to speak. The two men who halted us got into a taxi cab which was waiting in Lennox Place, with a driver, and drove quickly away towards Richmond Street. I then hailed a taxi cab which was returning to Wayte’s Garage, and with the help of the driver lifted Kahn into it, and took him to the Meath Hospital. He was dead when we got there. About 10 shots were fired. Three of these struck Kahn – one in the neck and other two in the body.”
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