On one occasion , Hardy was shadowed on a visit to England , but evaded his would-be assassin at Euston station by quickly transferring from his train to a waiting taxi before he could be ambushed . On another occasion , a group of assassins was waiting for him on the dockside on his return to Ireland , but aborted their attempt when an armoured car arrived to pick him up . Hardy was on a list of intelligence agents to be assassinated in the morning hours of 21 November 1920 . The IRA 's attempt to destroy British intelligence in Ireland resulting in 13 deaths . This would come to be known as " Bloody Sunday " . Hardy escaped death because he was not at his residence when the would-be assassins arrived . The previous evening , Hardy had taken part in a series of raids that led to the capture of prominent republicans Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy , who had done much of the planning around " Bloody Sunday " . Hardy later prevented Clancy from escaping by slipping into a group of prisoners being transferred out of Dublin Castle and both prisoners were later killed in disputed circumstances by the auxiliaries guarding them . Between 13 and 15 February 1921 , Captain William L King would be tried by court-martial and cleared of the allegation of the extrajudicial killing of two other IRA members in what would become known as the " Drumcondra Affair " . Dublin Castle 's Under Secretary Sir Alfred Cope later speculated that Hardy may have influenced other witnesses in the inquiry
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1920)
Jocelyn Lee Hardy