Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-19
UNDRESS WOMAN
TO her KNOCKERS
when IN PRISON
Countess MarkieWicz, Irish
Member of Parliament, Re-
Iates Her Experiences as
Martyr for Ireland.
BY COUNTESS MARKIEWICZ.

ny A0ON Eos MANhlEW1NL.
tMember Of Parliament, Heroine Of the
1915 Easter Rebellion, just released
from prison. written expressly for Uni
versal Scrvice.)
LONDON. Oct l8.-After sentence
had been imposed on me on a
trumpet up charge, | was taken to
'ail, and there. despite the fact that |
was political prisoner, six viragoes
took charge Of me and stripped me
until all stood in was knickers. l
refused to allow them to take them
off and fought for half an hour-not
scratching, but hafimering and beat
ing away at them. In the end they
had to give in.
Barbed wire entanglements sur
rounded my CELL In addition, a
regiment of soldiers guarded it day
md night, but one night stampeded
the wnole lot by throwing a rotten
apple out of the window OF my cell.
Stricken with fright, four sentries
cleared off and an officer turned out
the guard. l heard him reprimand
the sentry for running away. They
said people were throwing bombs
into the prison.
The guards then were doubled and
after a while | threw out three
Jumps of sugar. Immediately there
was fusilade of rife and revolver
shots, and shouts of there they
are!" They pointed to the chimney
and banged away into the air. Ex-
element prevailed for hours. l en-
joyed it thoroughly until ! got tired
and went to bed. The shooting con-
tinued till daybreak at the supposed
bomb thrcwers.
OF Frequent Occurrence.
Things like this happened in Ire
land frequently. The other night. at
the artillery barracks in Ballincollig,
three old cows ran into the barbed
wire entanglements. Alarm for an
attack was given and 800 soldiers
turned cut to defend the place. They
banged away with guns and re-
volvers and bombs at the beasts and
scored great victory. Casualties
Three bovines killed The grand af-
fair lasted two hours. Searchlights
and all were going in full swing.
| am going to Dublin imme date
1y. l am again in the fighting lines.
We are winning i'll Ireland, and |
suggest that Universal Service tell
the people of America that we have
our ccnturies-old enemies and OPP
prcssors oil tile run.
| have not made up my mind yet
whether I shall go to America. Much
work remains for me to be done
here.
The whole charge on which l
served four months i'm prison was
framed up. The police committed
a bare-faced perjury. They accused
me of advocating boycott against
them and their children. Chief
Secretary MACPHERSON declared that
the shooting of Police Inspector
Hunt was due to an melting speech
by me.
Wanted Police Avoided.
What | said was that the police
should be avoided; that girls should
not keep company with them. The
authorities framed it that l said
every pOuCcIldH Sllouiu OS Siio@'
Never word like that left my lips
mot that l condemn shooting po-
lice spies in this country.
When war is on, spies have to put
up with the consequences, and Eng
land did not condemn the shooting
of German spies. I would advocate
it if thought it right, but I didn't
consider it a wise policy at the
moment.
Many Of the alleged outrages
about which one hears nowadays
are Just pure inventions. Recently
in Clare, two policemen were re-
ported as having been fred on from
behind a hedge. Later Is great coat;
were found at the police. One can
not imagine IS Clare men going ou'
with great coats on fine summers
night to shoot couple OF police
men.
Another instance is that Of pc.
liceman who could not sell his turf
so he set FIRE to it himself and go'
a levy on the district for damages
though everybody knew the affair
was concocted.