One of the assassins , Vinny Byrne , wrote an account of the murders : '' As I opened the folding-doors , the officer , who was in bed , was in the act of going for his gun under his pillow . Doyle and myself dashed into the room , at the same time ordering him to put up his hands , which he did . Doyle dashed around by the side of the bed , and pulled a Colt .45 from beneath the pillow . Right behind us came Frank Saurin and he started collecting from papers etc. , which was his job . I remember looking into a drawer and seeing a Sinn Fein tie there and , if I am not mistaken , photographs of the 1916 leaders . I ordered the British officer to get out of bed . He asked me what was going to happen and I replied : ' Ah , nothing . ' I then ordered him to march in front of me ... I marched my officer down to the back room where the other officer was . He was standing up in the bed , facing the wall . I ordered mine to do likewise . When the two of them were together I thought to myself ' The Lord have mercy on your souls ! ' I then opened fire with my Peter . They both fell dead . '' The report delivered to the House of Lords on the murders of Bloody Sunday described the events at 38 Upper Mount as well : '' This house was entered at 9.10 a.m. by twenty armed , unmasked men who were let in by a servant , Catherine Farrell , who unwillingly and under constraint pointed out the rooms occupied by Lieutenant Aimes , of the Grenadier Guards , and Lieutenant Bennett , of the R.A.S.C. , Motor Transport . The maid rushed upstairs and warned an officer who was sleeping on the upper floor , and another male lodger , that murder was being done downstairs . A fusilade of shots was heard . When they came down-stairs they found two bodies in a pool of blood in Aimes 's bedroom . Bennett had evidently been dragged from the bedroom in his bedclothes into his brother officer 's room where both were shot together , their bodies lying side by side . '' Peter Ashmun Ames was engaged to marry Millicent Orr-Ewing , a niece of the Duke of Roxburghe and a close friend of Barbara Cartland , at the time of his death . Their engagement was announced in '' The New York Times '' the same day that Ames was assassinated . Ames ' brother , Joseph Bushnell Ames , was a prolific novelist , and his aunt , Alice Alden Bushnell , married a son of the lawyer George Goelet Kip . The philanthropist Mary Warden Harkness , wife of Charles W. Harkness , was the first cousin of Ames ' mother Eleanor
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1920)
Peter Ashmun Ames