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Show I HUNGER STRIKER'S FUNERAL DRAMATIC TROOPS ON HID TO STOP ANY DEMONSTRATION " Death of Fitzqerald Has Bad Effect on the Other Fasters DONOVAN AND KENNY SUFFER COLLAPSE MacSwiney Dictates Letter to Survivors in Jail at Cork CORK, Oct. ID. The condition of j the Irish hunger strikers in Cork jail ( has, become worse as th result of de-"presslorj de-"presslorj caused by the death Sunday of Michael Fitzgerald, first of the , eleven to succumb. Severe collapses were suffered by two of the strikers, Donovan and Kenny, early this morning. To prevent Irish volunteers from marching in the funeral procession of, Fitzgerald w hen his body was re- I moved this afternoon from the church here to Fermov. a large force of military mili-tary surrounded the church and six lorry loads of soldiers and an arm- ' ored car fell in behind the mourners' carriages following th.. . offin. Great indignation wu, i vpi ssed among the people lilt M I K si I A dramatic scene was enacted In the Church just before the removal of Fitzgerald's body. The requiem mass was being celebrated when an army officer with drawn revolver, accompanied ac-companied by four soldiers with rifles, forced B way through the throng in the entrance, marched up to the ultat rail and presented the officiating priest with a typewritten communication from great headquarters stating that the number of persons in the funeral, procession must bo limited to tOO, ! none of Whom would be allowed to inarch In military formation. ROMANCE l NCOVER1 D With (tie announcement of the death of Fitzgerald there came to light a romance which would have resulted in the marriage of Fitzgerald on his death-bed if permission could havi been obtained to hold the ceremony A constant attendant on Fitzgerald since he began his hunger strike was Miss Condon of Fermoy. She was supposed to have been his sister, but as it turns out she was his fiancee. Miss Condon nursed the prisoner de-VOtedlj de-VOtedlj night and day. A week ago Fitzgerald expressed a desire that he be married to Miss Condon Con-don before he died. Ho said he felt that death was near. .Miss Condon consented but permission was refused lo the prison chaplain to perform the ceremony. PliAN is DROPPED. The bishop of Cork was appealed to. and he Ks said to havP authorized another priest to perform the marriage mar-riage ceremony. H Is asserted that When the prison authorities learned of Ibis plan they issued a warning that if it was carried out all visitors would KCluded from the jail in the fu- nire Accordingly the plan was dropped. ITltagerald had served fifteen months in prison. For three months he had been in the same jail in which he died, lnaoltary confinement Ho had been out of the prison only a fortnight Wh( n he was re-arrested. Me is said to have be. n the commandant of the First battalion of the Second Cork1 brigade of Irish volunteers. The condition of Joseph Murphy caused much anxiety, the jail physicians physi-cians saying he was at death's door. , AWFUL EMACIATION. At 1 o'clock the relatives of Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald sent for the physicians who had observed his critical condition the: night before but were not permitted to attend him. The doctors were also requested to see Murphy, who was fully conscious. Murphy showed re luctance to accept treatment, but fin-1 fin-1 ally agreed to take medicine in order , to relieve the acute pain from which he was sut'lering. i The treatment of Murphv gave the I physicians their first opportunity to make a thorough examination of anv of the hunger strikers. "The emacla-! emacla-! tion of Murphy Is simply aw ful." they said. "He is literally nothing but ,skin and bones. Jlls abdomen is so I sunken that it is only a hollow. "He whispered that he wanted to die to escape the pain," naid the doctors. doc-tors. LETTER FROM MAYOR. I LONDON! et. IS. Lord Mayor M icBwlney In Brixton prison today ; dictated the following telegram to the ; hunger strikers in Cork: "No tears, but joy for our comrade I who was ready to meet his Qod and die for his country He has Joined the immortals and will be rememgored forev. r. We do not know who is to be the second to slep in the path of immortality but by offering unre-ser.d unre-ser.d sacrifice we ..re safeguarding the destinies of Ireland " The Evening .Vows says todav it understands MiuSwiney j,a., reached l a point where a critical collapse is j likely to occur. The newspaper quotes) a prison official as saying: "Stimulants can not do much for, him, and should he collapse It would be difficult to apply restoratives, asi in the ease of a normally healthy person. per-son. 1 think this week will sue a great ohange tor the worse In his eon ditioiu'.' |