The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-10-27
MCSSAYNINEY SuCCUNBS
IN BRIXTON PRISON
Death of Lord Mayor of Cork Ends
Long Hunger Strike.
HAD REFUSED FOOD
FOR SEVENTY DAYS
Death Not Unexpected as Prisoner
Had Suffered Relapse Several
Days Before and since That
Time Had Been Un-
conscious.

conscious.
Cork, Oct 25.-(By the Associated
: Press. Joseph Murphy, one of the
hunger strikers in Cork Jail, died to-
night.
The death of Murphy occurred at
1886 p. m. He was rs years of age
and unmarried.
Murphy was member of the Irish
Volunteers and was we'll known as an
athlete.
London, Oct. 25 (By the Associated
Press. .)-Terence, MacSwiney, lord
mayor Of Cork, the most prominent
of the Irish hunger strikers and said
to have been the brains of the re-
publican army in Ireland, died early
, today in Brixton prison.
The end was not unexpected, for
the lord mayor had been unconscious
for several days. He was entering
upon the 74th day of his hunger
strike as protest against SEN
tence Of two years. Imprisonment on
several charges, including one Of
having seditious documents in his
possession.
"Only his brother, John Mac
Swiney, and his private chaplain,
Father Dominic, were with him when
he died. Mrs. MacSwiney and the
prisoners two sisters, Annie and
Maris, were at nearby hotel.
The lord mayor, who was terribly
emaciated as result of long absti-
nence from food, had been delirious
for many hours and was unconscious
when death came.
1t was several hours after the lord
mayor died before his brother was
permitted to tell Mrs. MacSwiney the
sad news. She Immediately went to
the prison, accompanied by her pa
rents and the Misses MacSwiney and
the family group, stoical and dry
eyed, prayed over the body as it lay
on the cot.
There were no untoWard demon
stratons outside the prison after the
news of MacSwiney's death became
generally known. A large force of
police had been concentrated to put
down any disorders that might oc-
cur. 1t was said at the prison that
the reasons for withholding permis-
sion to John MacSwiney to inform the
dying mans relatives of his condition
was that it was in the prisoners in
terest.
- Just before MacSwiney died Father
( Dominic end John MacSwiney knelt
at the bedside and offered mp prayers
The priest administered the rites of
extreme JUNCTION.
1t is well within the possibilities
that the body will be taken to Cork
secretly in order to avoid unpleas-
ant results from whatever demon
'tarations might be arranged in Eng
land and Ireland along the route
traversed by the train bearing the
body. There is no intimation that
any official advocates refusal to send
it to Cork.
The home office in charge Of pris-
Ons, which would control the move
ment Of the body in England, said
that no plan for the removal Of the
body had been officially considered
At the Irish office it was declared
that no plan had been formulated for
the transfer Of the body to Ireland.
( and that final decision on this point
would rest solely with Dublin Castle
1t is within the power Of the home
Office to give up the body of pris-
oner in whatever way is deemed most
4 ,sexpedient 1t is pointed out that it
could legally transfer the body in
secret to some out Of the way port
and later to a government vessel and
deliver it at Cork.
New York, Oct. 25.-lrish sympa-
thzers, numbering more than 10000
attended mass meetings here to-
4 night, protesting against what they
termed the murder by the imperial
4 istic government of Great Britain"
&, of Lord Mayor Terence MacSwney
q, Cork
S1dley Field Malone farmer labor
candidate for governor of New
Walter E. Hollaway of Phia-
and several Irish women
laking to y great crowd in Colum-