A number of men escaped death, through a variey of circumstances.
Peel (barracaded himself in his room, and shots through the door missed him).
Caldow (brother in law of MacLean, and survived his wounds, MacLean died),
Captain Keenlyside (shot & wounded, but survived), Murray (wounded and survived) ,
Col Jennings and Major Hardy (not in their rooms when assassins burst into their rooms), Harry Curran and Dom Rossally were assigned to this murder
Major Carew( an intelligence officer on the hit list who had moved to an appartment over the road)
Peel at 22 Lower Mount Street where Angliss was murdered.
Hansard report says The maid opened the door, twenty men rushed in (the IRA say 11 men), and demanded to know the bedrooms of Mr. Mahon (Angliss) and Mr. Peel. Mr. Mahon's room was pointed out. They entered, and five shots were fired immediately at a few inches range. Mr. Mahon was killed. At the same time others attempted to enter Mr. Peel's room. The door was locked. Seventeen shots were fired through the panels. Mr. Peel escaped uninjured. Meanwhile another servant, hearing the shots, shouted from an upper window to a party of officers of the Auxiliary Division who had left Beggars Bush Barracks to catch an early train southward for dut
His brother in law, Donald Lewis MacLean, was another victim in the same house. John Caldow had gone to Ireland with a view to securing employment with the police force.
At 117 Morehampton Road, Donnybrook, not far from the scene of the first shootings, another member of the Cairo Gang, Lieutenant Donald Lewis MacLean, along with suspected informer T. H. Smith and MacLean's brother-in-law, John Caldow, were taken into the hallway and about to be shot, when MacLean asked that they not be shot in front of his wife. The three were taken to the roof, where they were shot by Vinnie Byrne and Seán Doyle. Caldow survived his wounds and fled to his home in Scotland.
28, Upper Pembroke-street Captain Kenlyside, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, whose wife most gallantly struggled with the murderers and thereby frustrated their purpose, was wounded in the arm.
28, Upper Pembroke-street. Colonel Keenlyside was fired at as he came downstairs. He appeared to have taken unawares the raiders who were in the hall. Colonel Keenlyside belongs to the Lancashire Fusiliers.
The operation began at 9:00 am, when members of the Squad entered 28 Pembroke Street. The first British agents to die were Major Dowling and Captain Leonard Price. Three more members of the Gang were shot in the same house: Captain Keenlyside, Colonel Woodcock, and Colonel Montgomery. As Keenlyside was about to be shot, a struggle ensued between his wife and Mick O'Hanlon. The leader of the unit, Mick Flanagan, arrived, pushed Mrs. Keenlyside out of the way and shot her husband.
He was not killed
28, Upper Pembroke-street A sixth officer, Mr. Murray, of the Royal Scots, was also wounded as he descended the stairs. A lady resident in the house went from room to room seeking help and in every room found only dead, dying, or wounded men.
CL II.—17th June 1920. Lt. B. G. Murray, 5th B. Scots, T.F.
Captain Crawford narrowly escaped death after the IRA entered a guesthouse in Fitzwilliam Square where he was staying, looking for a Major Callaghan. On not finding their target, they debated whether or not to shoot Crawford. They decided not to shoot him as he was not on the hit list; instead they gave him 24 hours to leave Ireland, which he promptly did. Callaghan had reportedly spent the night with a prostitute.
In the Eastwood Hotel the IRA failed to find their target, a Colonel Jennings. Other targets who escaped were a Major Hardy, as well as a "Major King, a colleague of Hardy [who] was missing when he [assassin Joe Dolan] burst into his [King's] room that he [Dolan] took revenge by giving his [King's] half-naked mistress 'a right scourging with a sword scabbard', and setting fire to the room afterwards." Harry Curran and Dom Rossally probably assigned to the murder
Major Carew, an intelligence officer who with Captain Price had cornered IRA gunman Sean Treacy the month before was on the hit list but when the IRA came calling for him, he had moved to an apartment across the street. He heard the gunfire at his former lodging and began firing his own revolver at an IRA sentry outside. The sentry was hit and took cover inside the house. Carew's action prompted the IRA gang to clear out.
Other men not at home when death came calling were Col Jennings, Maj King and Maj Hardy. Joe Dolan was so put out at finding his target (King) missing that he thrashed his mistress instead.
Major Hardy
Other men not at home when death came calling were Col Jennings, Maj King and Maj Hardy.