the Republic: for one to two years after his disappearance Ewins had continued to ask various people around Q to provide him unofficially with references to enable him to get a job. Obviously, Ewins knew that his official reference from QU was unlikely to be impressive. Trimble said that in many ways Ewins had been too obvious a suspect to be suspected in the murder attempts on the Lord Chief Justice and Inspector Fulton: LORD CHIEF JUSTICE - it was known" in“idvance that Lowry was coming to give a lecture to the students in the law faculty at 2pm. However, what was not widely known was that Lowry was going to have funch at Ipm at the Staff Common Room which was quite a distance from the lecture venue. Lowry had actually been invited to lunch by. the four lecturers in criminal law - including Ewins. Only those four, plus the dean of the faculty and his secretary, knew of this arrangement. Indeed. Trimble had bumped into the four lecturers standing around in the SCR near Ipm. He had asked them what they were doing, but they had refused to tell him. The gunman Jater opencd up from a disused house facing the SCR INSPECTOR FULTON - was one of Ewins’ students. However, it was known around the faculty - certainly among lecturers, and also among a few students - that Fulton was in the RUC. Bwins was actually invigilating in the cxam room at the time Fulton was shot: "Some of us thought that Ewins might have been involved, but we dismissed the idea. The connection was too obvious. Surely he would not allow himself to be present at a murder he had set up? It just did not seem possible Trimbie suggested two other people I could speak to: Professor Wallace, who was around at the time and is still in the Jaw faculty (he is also a member of the Police Authority) and Sylvia Paisley (who is now Lady Hermon - the wife of the former RUC chief!). Apparently. she was present at Edgar Graham's debate in the Students’ Union. He said also that it might be worthwhile having an off-the-record chat (hm barrister am Seme of the QU IRA cell. Apparcot ly, ((URMREREBEB Or refed Trimble - as a friend - about this cel} because many of them were still walking freely around the campus, possibly with less than wholesome intentions towards Trimble.