Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-25
FEVER|SH UNREST
! ST|RS ireland AS
MACSW|NEY DIES
News of Death in Brlxton
Causes Grief-Raids
Excite Dublin.
WIDOW STOICALLY FAILS
TO SHED A SINGLE TEAR
Another Hunger Striker Near End
in Cork-News Spreads
Rapidly.
Dy TIE Associated Press.

IN Cork-NeWS 0pIeduS
Rapidly.
By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, October 25.-A sergeant
and two constables were shot dead
and three constableS were wounded
this morning when 100 armed men
ambushed a police patrol between
Grange and Apamlish, County Shgo.
There were nine men in the am
bushed patrol.
LONDON, October 25.-Terence Mac
Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, died at
Brixton prison, this city, .at $40 O'Clock
this morning. His death followed hum
ger strike of more than seventy-three
days, eclipsing all others in the annals
of the medical world.
MacSwiney, who had been unconscious
for several days, did not recover his
faculties before he died Father Dominic,
his private chaplain, and his brother,
John MacSwiney, were with him wnen
the end came. Father Dominic was at
the prison all night and did not leave
until several hours after MacS"iheS
breathed his last
John MacSwiney and the chaplain,
who had been waiting downstairs in the
prison, were told by prison omclals at
4::5 o'clock that they should go to the
mayors bedside. as they tnouent oeae5
for the privilege of communicating with
other relatives who were not present, out
the officials, it is said. refused him the
use of telephone.
Not Allowed to Leave.
After the prisoners death his
brother and the chaplain were not
,permitted to leave Brixton prison un-
til. Sis o'clock. John 4acSwiney i'm
mediately conveyed word to the
widow Of the lord mayor, who was
staying alta West End hotel with MT.
and Mrs O'Brien, the former being the
London executive OF the irish SELL
Determination League.
Mrs MacSwiney eySaccompanied by her
parents and the Misses Annie and
Mary MacSwiney, sisters. of the lord
mayor. arrived at Brixton prison at
':Hp i. Is 1e,Dsss nnderstosa arrangements are
being made to take the body to Ire
land for burial. , - -
News of MacSwiney's death had not
become known In the district around
Brixtons prison until after o'clock.
The usual large contingent of police
was on duty inside the prison grounds
TO prevent any demonstration. but out
side and along the road leading to
the main highway. there were no un-
were waiting there. as they usually
did in the early days of the lord
mayors hunger strike.
Knots Move Toward Prison.
AS soon as the news of the lord
mayors death began to spread
through the city small knots Of people
began moving toward Brixton prison.
did allow
any one to move into the street lead
ing to the prison entrance, keeping
the people moving SO that a crowd
would not form. Fears had previously
been expressed that the lord mayors
death might cause a demonstration at
the prison.
The MacSwiney family arranged
during the morning for the removal of
the body from the prison to St
Georges Cathedral. in London. as soon
will lie in state there until it is taken
to Dublin. where it is planned to place
the body for day or two in the Man.
sion House.
Unconscious Thirty-Six Hours.
MacSwiney was unconscious for
thirty-six hours before his death oc-
Cured. it is stated. Father Dominic,
therefore, was unable to give him
communion. but he administered ex-
treme JUNCTION.
The cause of MacSwiney's death was
heart failure, according to state
ment issued at the home office.
This statement is considered an in
direct answer to the criticisms of DR..
Josiah Oldheld, the physician and
publicist, who had declared it was
wrong for the lord mayors doctors to
administer meat juice and brandy. He
said brandy was poison and that a
man at the point of death was very
susceptible to poison. DR.. Oldfield
added that when a man tasted a long
time the first food he could endure
was fruit juice.
When one of the officials was asked
today regarding Mrs. Macswiney's alb
sence from the bedside when death
occurred, he replied by saying the re-
strictions which were recently i'm
posed upon the visits of relatives
were urged by the attending physi-
clans as vital to the prisoners own
Terence Macswiney was forty years
old.
Grave Alongside MacCurtain.
MacSwiney's grave will be alongside e
that of his official predecessor, Lord
Mayor Thomas MacCurtain. who was
shot in his own home, in Cork, on
March 90. MacSwiney will be The
fourth to be buried in this plot. tn G
others being MacCurtain. Sheamus Nc
Guirke. who was taken out of bed ir
his Galway home and shot. and Jere-
Iniah McNesty. who participated in
the Easter rising in Dublin, in 1916
These arrangements are contingent
upon the possibility of governmental
interference, which, however, is re-
garded as unlikely. The progress of
the funeral party from Dublin to
Cork will be marked by a series of
services at all the populous centers
, en- route, Final obsequies will be held
in Cork Cathedral and interment will
be made in St Fin Bars cemetery, in
Cork. The grave in which MacSwiney
will be buried is known as republic
an plot" which has been reserved
for Irish. nationalist soldiers.
Wife Remains Stole.
A friend of the MacSwiney family
who accompanied Mrs MacSwiney
when she visited Brixton prison this
morning said the lord mayor,s teIe
gram .of October. Is to the Cork hum
ger strikers with reference To the
death Of the hunger striker. Michael
Fitzgerald, in Cork jail in which he
referred to Fitzgerald as having died
for his country and Joined the inn
mortals characterized the family's
attitude.
Mrs. MacSwiney and the lord
mayors sisters Annie and Mary. who
we're not present when the end came
entered the cell. kissed the mayors
cheek. knelt silently in prayer a few
moments and then left the friend
said. There was not a tear shed by
the mayorAss, who preserved the sans
atoirsl aelf- -DoSseSSion she bas obo,, /.