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Show I Unmolested on Street, Scores of Irishmen "on the Run" Fear Night Arrests DUBLIN, May 17. Scores of men 'in. ' this city are "on the run" which, in the parlance of the land, means that the police or military hold warrants war-rants for their arrest, yet they go about the streets unmolested by policemen. po-licemen. Sinn Feiners here, and Incidentally few men will admit they are members of that organization, say that the po-I po-I lice are afraid to arrest one of their I members on the streets because a crowd collects, often shots are fired nnd usually the prisoner is rescued. It is at night and at home that they P aro in danger of arrest The police do W not admit they are afraid to make an i Pf it? arrest in public but say they dislike ' we to create a scene -vhere many people irV may gather quickly. , "; One of the "runners" confided some of, his troubles to a newspaper man. He Is 3S years of age, has a Wife nnd children and has" served several terms us a political prisoner. Ho said: "My wife and the kiddies are getting rather tired of the suspense of not knowing whether I am coming homo or going to jail. X have four places where I sleep. It is only at infrequent nnd ; Irregular intervals that I go home and then never to sleep in a bed. I roll up in a blanket on a couch or floor partly dressed. If they come for me, which they have several times, I get J j out of the house and they find no evi-,i evi-,i j denco that I have been there. I do ii not have to lay out along a hedge or I hide behind a tree as long as I might I if they knew I had been there and in-I in-I j , r stlgaie a thorough search. Ifi . "This 13 only an outline of the sort -A of life many of us .ire leading these M i ' daa- W all follow about tho same 2 1 system in which much is left to chance m , "Jut it really has kept many of us out 1L "I v 'of jailfor intervals at least." Ml H s3 Tnis inforrnant said nothing would I l'," suit him but an Irish republic and he I ft would fight for it as long as he lived. m 1 oo |