New Britain herald., 1920-10-25
MACSWINEY DIES;
 SORROW IN CORK
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to administer meat juice and brandy | He said brandy was a poison and that | a man at the point of death was very | susceptible to poison. pr. Oldfield add l ed that when a man lasted a long time the first food he could endure was fruit juice.
 When one of the officials was ask | ed today regarding Mrs. MacSwiney's | absence from the bedside when death occurred he replied by saying the re- strictions which were recently inn posed upon the visits of relatives were urged by the attending physicians as vital to the prisoners own interest. Fed Last week
 Within the past week when it be- gan to appear that the lord mayor was approaching the end he was given liquid nourishment by the prison doc
 tors during periods of unconscious
 ness. This fact appeared in statements
 by both the Irish self-determination
 ieague, which has been issuing regu-
 lar bulletins of MacSwiney's condition and by the home office. The leagues
 statement showed the lord mayor as
 becoming extremely indignant upon
 regaining consciousness ana reanzing that he had been fed.
 They tricked mo and I didn't know 1t" he exclaimed. The leagues bulle- tin on October 21 contained this state ment:
 Tt should be made clear that the meat extract given the lord mayor during his dilirium on the 6sth day of his fast was the first nourfshment which had passed his lips since his arrest on August 12."
 With regard to the theological as- poets of the lord mayors strike and that of the Irish prisoners in the Cork jail who began a similar absention from food shortly before MacSwineys fast started, 1t was stated in a Rome dispatch on October 1T that Pope Benedict had referred the problem of the status of the hunger striking prisoners to the Congregation of the Holy office.
 No Decision By Pope
 His Holiness had received many urgent appeals to make some pro- nouncement regarding these cases from persons of opposite view points, impIoring the Pontiff to reach diametrically opposed. decisions on the question whether the deaths of tho prisoners as a result of their hunger strike would make them suicides. He had found widely divergent opinions also. 1t was added, among learned cardinals and other prominent, figures in the church with whom he had dis crssed the situation and therefore had laid the problem before the Congrega- ton of the Holy OfHce which settles questions of faith and morals and judges heresy. There has been no in- dication as to when a decision might bc expected from this body.
 The first death among the hunger strikers occurred on Sunday. October | IF when Mitchaei Fitzgerald, one or tho II striking prisoners in the Cork jaii srccum bed to the results of his self imposed fast. He had lasted os days. Several other of the Cork pris- oners are tdeclared now to be in | critical state. .a+
 News Spreads Rapidly.
 As soon as the news of the lord | nayor's death began to spread through | Inc city small knots of people began | moving toward Brixton prison. The | police. however. did not allow anyone | Q move Into the street leading to the | prison entrance. keeping the people | moving so that a crowd would not | 'orm. Fears had previously been ex- pressed that the lord mayors death | night cause a demonstration at the | prison.
 The MacSwiney family arranged | turing the morning for the removal ] ,f the body from the prison to St. | Georges cathedral in London as soon | as the inquest was ended. The body | will lie in state there until it is taken | probably on board a special train, to | Dublin. where it is planned to place | Inc body for a day or two in the Man | sion House.
 Place Of Burial.
 Macsswiney's grave will be along | side that of his official predecessor, | Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtain. who | was shot in his home in Cork on | March 20. MacSwiney will be the | fourth to be buried in this plot, the | others being MacCurtain. Sheamus | who was taken out of bed | In his Galway home and shot, and Jeremiah McSesty, who participated | in tho Easter rising in Dublin. 1916. |
 These arrangements are contingent | upon the possibility of governmental | which, however, is re- | garded as unlikely. The progress of I the funeral party from Dublin to Cork | will be marked by a series of services at all the populous ccnters en route. ! Final obseQuies will be held in Cork ! and interment will be made | in St. Fin Bars cemetery in Cork. | The grave in which MacSwiney will be | buried is known as republican plot" | which has been reserved for Irish na- | tionalist soldiers.
 No Outbreaks Expected
 Cork. Ireland, Oct. 25.-(By the | PreasD-Feyerfah interest |