Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-29 | Page 3 | Sinn Fein Leader's Death Complicates

51 FEIN LEADER'S DEATH COMPLICATES Opinion Among Members of Faction Seriously , j Inflamed." DUBLIN, Sept. 28. The body of j Thomas Ashe, a Sinn Fein leader, who died in prison Wednesday while on a ; hunger strike, now is in the city hall, ! where it will lie in state until Sunday. ! On that day the public funeral will ; take plaee and interment will be at; (ilasnevin cemetery. It is expected j that tho procession will be the largest since the funeral of t'harles Parnell, with many contingents present from . the provinces. j LONDON, Sept. 28. The death v ; Dublin on Wednesday of Thomas Ashe, a Sinn l-'eiu lender, reported to have I loon due to voluntary starvation, ac-I c.rdinu to a. dispati-h to the Daily Mail ' from Dublin, has accentuated painfully the difficulties underlying the RurLacj j of Irish polities, and Sinn Fein opinion i is inflamed seriously. Ashe's body, dressed in the uniform -of the Irish volunteers, vol-unteers, lies in state in a Dubl'ii hospital, hos-pital, and there may he a public t'r.nernl on Sunday. It is said that oth r Sinn! I Kein leaders in the hospital prison . j where Ashe died are in a dangerous condition. con-dition. At t lie inquest Thursday into the d ath of Ashe, Professor Me Moon ey testified tes-tified that the post mortem examination, examina-tion, at which several other doctors were present, showed that Ashe did not J die oi hunger. The body was not j emai Kited and there was an abundant"1 ' of looo. in the stomach. Death, he said, : was uue to syncope, arising partly from heart trouble and partly from m in tense congestion of the lungs. Asne 's heart, ho added, was abnormal and he would be apt to succumb to any sudden shock or prolonged struggle. Dr. Mckonna. a hospital surgeon, testified tes-tified that Aho told him after he had been fed forciblv on Tuesday that he had eollupscd from a fit of coughing.