Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-26
Irish Prisoner Passes Away
at Brixton Prison Despite
| ForcibIe Feeding by His
/ Jailers

LONDON. Oct. Difference Mac
Swiney died in Brixton prison at
$40 a. m. today.
The Lord Mayor of Cork died with
but regaining consciousness at the
6awn of the seventy-fourth day Of
his hunger strike.
With MacSwiney as he died were
Father Dominic, his religious adyis-
Or, and his brother. John. John re-
5nained in the prison throughout the
hight and was not permitted to leave
Br1xtonf prison until 6:15 a. m. In
hat time he was not permitted to
communicate with other relatives.
MacSwiney began sinking at mid
hight last night. Officials refused
10 permit the priest to notify rela-
lives. according to a Sim Fein an
houncement.
The lady mayoress and Macswin-
key's sisters, Annie and Mary, visit
4d the prison at p. m. They stayed
fifteen minutes and left quietly.
The prisoners wife made her last
{isit to the bedside Saturday after
boon. but the two sisters had not
been allowed to see their brother
since Friday. They were denied adj
mission Saturday and remained in
! he prison waiting room all day
Without food. They finally were
Elected late at night by constables
MacSwiney's death was believed
hear Thursday when he became de-
5irious. His body was racked with
remors which continued even after
be regained consciousness.
Physicians gave him his first food
Is he lost control of himself. They
lave him beef extract and brandy.
The prisoner ragged when he recov-
bred and knew from the doors that
he had taken food. Thereafter he
! vas fed whenever he lost conscious
&ess. Although the food was retain
ID. physicians had little hope that he
you'd recover. His mental attitude
vas against it and he wore himself
but raging against being fed.
1t was at this stage that relatives
we're deprived of their usual freedom
visiting the prisoner. Physicians
protested that the process of feeding
aim made it advisable to bar them.
4 The last outsider to see him was
Art O'Brien, of the self-determina-
j ion league. O'Brien issued a state
nent saying that the feeding OF
NacSwiney was unnecessary Vlo-
&ence.
After lying in comparative comfort
or almost seventy days of his
$trike, MacSwiney's last days were
painful and narrowing.
Previously MacSwiney had lain on
lis bed, packed in hot water bottles,
ontentedly receiving visitors and
peacefully contemplating. the, effect
Bf his act on the cause OF ireland
Then came his delirium and his
5rst feeding. There were several de-
lirious spells during which MacSwin-
hey rayed and shouted of the Irish
Republican army, drilling imaginary
rSops and presiding over imaginary
irish courts.
He swung his arms in exhortation
Ind huskily recalled orders: Open
&ng his eyes he would ask his rela-
lives if the republic had been firmly
ssta blished and if ireland was func-
Mining as nation
IYhe lady mayoress apparently
lfew death was coming when she
Jaw her husband Saturday.
ITS too terrible, I cant talk ak
bout it any more" she said when
$he left the prison late in the after
boon. She was i'll Sunday as re-
built of the long and trying expert
$nce.
MacSwiney, said to be suffering
From lung trouble when arrested Au-
gust IL, went on a hunger strike i'm
&nediately. He was convicted August
6 by military court on charges OF
preparing and having in his posses
$ion seditious literature.
81 Eleven other Irish republicans ar
&ested at about the same time went
pn a hunger strike two days earlier
n the Cork Jail
When MacSwiney was deported to
England to be placed in Brixton jail
ehortly after sentence, he was sc
Spoard the steamer on a stretcher
was believed then that he would
Re within a few days.
The lord mayor lived, however
it'll only slight changes in his con-
#ition. He lived to see one of the
Fiber hunger strikers, Michael Fitz-
Gerald, die after sixty-eight days OF
Fasting.
4 DUBLIN, Oct. 25.-(United Press
THE Mansion house, residence OF
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, was raid