At thirty-five minutes past seven Francis Joseph McPhillip shot
himself dead while trying to escape from No. 44 Titt Street, his
father’s house. The house had been surrounded by Detective-Sergeant
McCartney and ten men. Hanging by his left hand from the sill of the
back-bedroom window on the second floor, McPhillip put two bullets
into McCartney’s left shoulder. While he was trying to fire again, his
left hand slipped and lost its hold. The pistol muzzle struck the edge
of the sill. The bullet shot upwards and entered McPhillip’s brain
through the right temple.
When they picked him out of the orange box in the back garden where he
fell, he was quite dead.