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Show 1 POLICE IN IRELAND FEARFUL OF REPRISAL HUNGER STRIKE PROVES FATAL 1 ON MTU DA! I Mac Swiney Once Store Clerk, Later Poet. Playwright and Politician PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR FUNERAL PROCESSION Police Tnke Steps to Prevent I Demonstrtaion Near Brixton Prison LiiNluiN, e"ct. 2.V (By The A. SOP" j H elated Press.) Terence SlacSWlnt . H I the lord mayor of Cork, died at Blxton i I prison, this city, at Bi10 o'clock this : morning;, I Ills death occurred on the 74th day I of a hunger strike that eclipsed any I , in the annals of the medical world. I MacSwiney, Who had been uncon- I ! sclous 3U hours, did not recover fa- I Ctlltleel before h- died. Father Io- mlnlc, his private chaplain, and h.s I brother. John MacSWiney, were wirn ! him when the end aim-. T r nee MacSvvinev was forty years old and was one of the most promi-t)i promi-t)i nl Sinn Peine rs. He started life as 'a draper's assistant, but ie,:ume .1 , poet, author and a pi tyrighl bsfote , taking up politics seriously. Later he became violently anti-English. j PRISON ROM N l . ' W hile in Wakefield Jail, Yorkshire. j in 1216, he met Muriel Murphy, daugb-ter daugb-ter ot ., wealthy Cork disxllier. wlw visited the- Jail, and shortly after they .1 were married, despite much oppJDsi- MacSWiney was elected as a Sin'i I Fein member from Cork to the Brlt- I ish parliament in Hi 18, but never toojc his seat. He was elected lord mayo ;W Cork in 1920. For various political offenses he hi I been in jail, wltii brief Intervals of j liberty, since January. HOC, and In October, 1017. secured his release from DE 1 11 lPPRt ( MUS n John Mai-Swiney and the ehaplaia who had been waiting downstairs in the prison, were told b prison offl-Clals offl-Clals at 4:35 o'clock thai they should go to the mayor's bedside, as the thought death was approaching; The brother asked for the privilege of com-munlcatlog com-munlcatlog with other relatives wh'i were not present, but th officials, it ud refused him the use of tin telephone. After the prisoner's death, hn brother and the chaplain Were not I" rmitted to leave Brixton prison un-tl un-tl 6:16 a. rn. John MacSwiney im -mediate! conveyed word to thi wldo 1 I of the lord mayor who was staying at a West Knel hotel with Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien, the former being the- I cuidon executive if the Irish Ralf lieterrntnutlon league. Mrs. MacSwiney, accompanied by her parents and the Misses Ajiitle andB Mary MacSwiney, sisters of the lord I H mayor, arrived at Brixton lirison a' 9.30 o'clock. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS It Is understood arrangements r- be-iiiR made to take the body to Jrc-lanel Jrc-lanel for burial .Vews of MacSwiney s death had not become known in the district around Brixton prison until after 'J o'clock. I Is probabh the Inquest win be H held at the prison today, after which the body will be turned over to relfl LH MacSwiney was unconscious for 3ti hours before liis death occurred, U Is stated Father Dpgftlnlc, therefore. " ,s c: him comi,in,,i H but he administered extreme unction The cause- of MacSwiney's oeatri was h art failure according to a '-it ifl nient issued nt the home office el DOi TOR'S OPINION. This statement U- considered an in- ' IH djrect answer to Dr. Joseph Oldfiehl. the physician and publicist, who had declarer! It was wrong for the lurd mayor's doctors to administer meat Juice and brandy. He said brandy was s poison and that a man at lh' lioint of death was very susceptible to poison. Lr. Oldfield addiwl thnt . when a man fasted a long time the first food he could enduro was frtrt ll SVhen one uf the officials was asked regarding Mrs. MacSwiney's absence from lh- bodsidc when death occun ot. lie replied by saying the restriction: S which w.re recently Imposed upon the visits of relatives were urged by the .-ill-riding physicians as vital to S the prisoner's own Inte-resu PLACE OF lit RIAL. I MacSwiney's grave will be alony-side alony-side fh.it of his offici;il predecessor. i Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtuin. wlio I was shot In his own home In Cork on March 20. MacSwiney will be the fourth to be buried in this plot, the others bein: MacCurtaln; Bhearaus McQuirke. who was taken out of bed 1 in his Galway home and shot, and Jt remlah McNesty, who participated in the Faster rising In Dublin In 1916. These arrangements are contingent Upon the possibility of gOVl rnmenta! Interfensnoe, which, however, is n garded as unlikely. The progress of Ihe funeral jmrty from Dublin to Cork w ill be marked by a series of services at all the populous centnrs en route. Final obsequies will be eld in Cork r athedral and interment will be made In St. Fin Barr's cemetery In Cork. The grave in whiehMacSwincy will l, buried Is known as "republican plot," (Continued ou Page Tto.) Hunger Strike Proves Fatal on 74th Day M i.nfmued I mm Page OlIC.) which has been reserved for Irish Nationallat soldiers. f How DS ITIEBR As soon as the news of th lord mayor s death began tu spread through the cty small knotfe of people began moving toward Brixton prison. The police, however, did not allow any one to move Into the street leading to the pnron entrance Fears had previously been expressed that the Jr.t-d mayor's death might cause a demonstration demon-stration at the prison. The MacSwiney family after the Inquest Will take the hodv to St peorge a eailiedral In London, where 11 Will lie m stale mtll it g taken to Dublin, where il Is planned to place the body for a dj.y or two In the sjanalon house. a friend 01 the IfgcSwlnej family who accompanied Mrs. IfacSwlne) when sho HsRed Brixton prison thfi morning. Bald the lord mayor's tele gram of liclnliir in iu- , grr strikers With reference to the Jf.th oj tn. hunger-strlki , . Michael r itrerald, In Cork Jail, In which h I.ferreil i J. 'itzgerald as hiding die-1 for his oountry and joined tho immoi -tls characterized the family's attitude. atti-tude. WIFE HI "Alts DP "Mr.- MacSwiney and ihe lor mayors may-ors Msten Annh and .m.tv. who wer not nr. tent when the en.i can n- tr-red the COM, kissed the mayor-cheek, mayor-cheek, knelt silently In prayer a few inomenW, nj then left." tho frlemJ saJd There w.ls not a tear shed bi the may ore, . who preaeried the imi atolcal seirpoaseaafon she hu shown throughout the long nrde.il " Th,. d. ath of Lord Mayor Mac Swinej was he first of an Irish bun- gpr-StrUcer to occur In Kngland Jusi a Week ago. on ln occasion of th' death of .Michael Pitsgentld. one ol the clever, hunger strikers in the Colt Jail, the lord mayor telegraphed: We do not know who in to he tin SOI ond to step into the path i immor tallty but by offering nnreH-rv.d sacrifice sac-rifice we an safeguarding t. ,Jt .. tinles of Ireland. It became evident several days ago that Alaeswlnev nearing the end t'p to thut time ho had stca-Ji set! 1 re fuised nourishment, alihough temptlnl dlshea were brought to his bedaldi lall b the authoritie.v toth th. aU Iboritles und the lor.j mavor .. relative, fimnnatln'i M. - . . , ZltZ.ZZJl I nlca 'my nal not ad-m ad-m inietered food t.. the prisoner, notwithstanding not-withstanding rumors to the contrary !)! IVI MAVOR AtK : arter th mayor who had1 fuhed the stagi of eatreme emada-tlon, emada-tlon, had become periodically delirious, the officials began to givc him liquid I nourlsnment. n,is ,um; however, aa the mayor has been all but dead for many days. As the end approached the authorities authori-ties restricted the vlsiu of his relatives rela-tives declaring this was in the Interest Inter-est of the prisoner, who won said to be too wk for excitement. Lst evening even-ing his brother Sean (John) and Fathl Dominic staved In the prison in view of aventualttlea shoniv before sla o'clock this morning they were sum moncd to sen the lord mayor, who h..d taken a bad turn They found him Iv-Ing Iv-Ing motionless with his eyes op bu:1 unoonaeioua. , Father Uominlc whlsperod a , f ew prajora, but the dying ruan did not I seal recognize hint. Tho priest then re-! 'lted the prayers for Ihe d in while Sean, the nurse ajid the four doctors. Including the expert adviser of thel home office, stood bi father Iomlni and Scan then retired re-tired to allow the doctors to do wha' they could for the lord mayor. Ona i them Injected strychnine. Katin-r Uominlc and .-'can in the meantime were repeating rosaries In Gaelic ln another part of the ward. The physicians shortly notified them hat tho lord mayor was beyond human hu-man aid, niitl Kuther Dominic again id the prr for the dying Just us he finished the lord mayor breathed hia last-News last-News of hla death spread rapidly throughout the United Kingdom and lrerar-Htlons for a great funeral were Immediately iegun by th.' Blnn Fein J-Hmllar plana wer- made some time ago when it appeared that the lord muyor a.i about to die and It is V"nwii thai a, that tin. 'he government govern-ment took ateDfl to renrefj, what thev might consider in-- undue demonstration- 1 SBBBBBBBBBBBBBalBBBaBBBBBH |
