Duke Street Prison saw the biggest shootout ever seen in Scotland
where an IRA ambush claimed the life of a police officer.
Henry who lived with his mother in Govanhill had gone out for the night and met Helen White, a twenty-year-old sex worker in Renfield Street in the city centre. However, Duke Street resident Helen Elliott spotted the body and alerted the police who promptly arrested Newall who blamed her absent husband John for the boy's murder.
At noon on Wednesday May 4, 1921, a police van ferried the prisoner to Duke Street from the nearby Central Police Court in St Andrew's Square.Their worst fears were realised when a team of 12 IRA gunmen ambushed the van just a few yards from the prison gates.The detective fell out of the van where he collapsed on the ground.Meanwhile, the gunmen attempted to open the locked doors to the van carrying 24 year old Carty.
Moorhead used her shoe to smash three cell windows and knocked the prison governor's hat off his head She wrote a letter to the prison managers, claiming that she and other suffragette prisoners were not being treated as political prisoners, and both women went on hunger strike.
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