The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-10-26
LORD MAYOR OF CORK
DIES OF STARVATION
Body May Be Removed Sc
cretly to Cork to Avoid
Disorder

X,
national secretary Of the Friends OF IT.
ish Freedom. tonight telegraphed all
state and local branches OF the organ
ization calling for organized "manifes-
tations of indignation and sorrow, next
Sunday over the murder or LORD Ma?yor
MacSwiney. Of Cork" and Michael Fitz-
gerald, who died recently after a nun
ger strike in a Cork jail.
The demonstrations are to be UNIFORM
throughout the country. with @ @1unera1
services in cathedrals ana prilcipai
churches, and cortegeS.
Banners are to be draped on black.
No notices are to be carried. ana no
speeches made on that day, acc0ruIhs
10 the orders national executive decree
Lynch stated:
Funeral MASS in Ottawa
Ottawa, Ont. Oct. 25;-,High requier
mass for Lord Mayor MacSwiney, OF
Cork, who died today. in BrlNton Prls-
on London, will be held In st. Brlgide
church here next WEDNESDAY; SGrSIses Gs
will be under the auspices Of Ih9mas
Davis. Ottawa branch of the irish SELL
Determination league.
London, Oct. 25.-(By, the Associated
Press)-Terencc MacSwiney. loru may
or of Cork, the most prominent or the
Irish hunger strikers, and SAID TO nave
been the brains of the Republican army
i'm Ireland. died early today, IN BrlNloh
prison. 49,
lord mayor had been unconscious Tor
several days. He was entering upon
the seventy fourth day Of his munger
strike az a protest against sentence
of two years Imprisonment on severai
eharses nSIndi"E n Gns his p6 Ha
Only his brother. John MacSwiney'
and his private chaplain. father Domln-
ic' were with him when he died. Mrs.
MacSwiney and the prisoner Two si sb,,
ters, Annie and Mary, "cie ~ ~
hotel .o,-,h,,, on,-
ociated as result of his long aostth-
ence from food had been dellrlous LoI
many hours and was unco'is|'
ueTt' ~ was several hours after the lord
,ravnr died before his brother was per,
n,itted to tell Mrs. MacSwiney the sac
nnws She Immediately went 10 the
mrison. accompanied by her parents. ana
thc Misses MacSwincy. and the lamily
rroun, stoical and dry-eyed, prayed
over the body as 1t lay on me COT
WV Guard Against Disorder
Thera were no untoNard oemohSlra-
,,one outside the prison after the news
Of MacSwiney's death became generatny
known, A large force or pollce naS i
been concentrated to put down any a's .,
order that might occur. 1t was snLa a.
,ba nrison that the reason for withholo
in', tne =, omission to John MacSwiney to
~ form the diving mans relatives OF MS
nnn1ition was that it was in the prison.
ers interests. ,,.I L,,ber
lust before MacSwiney died fathet
DomInic and John MacSwin"y kneit a.
;bn bedside and offered up PRAYERS. Inc
hricst administered the rites OF extreme
junction.
II il we'll within the possibilities lnat
ha Cork
IN order TO avoid unpleasant results
from whatever dcmonstratlon% th!sht oe
arranged In England. and lrcihhu aioIs
the route travrrsed oy !ru,1 ne th.t ony
official advocate rclu9"' ~
Cork. i, ,cro of nrisops
which would control the movement OF
the body in England sa'd n, ihat baI no been BEEN
nrricinlly considered. At the irish orice
II was declared that no plans hah pech
formulated for the transfer OF the houy
10 ireland and that final decision on MS Lnns
noint would rest solely with Dublin
Castle. 49,, no,,a
orrice to give up the body Of prisoner
in whatever way II deemed most eXpe,
dent II Is pointed out that 1t could
legally transfer the body In secret TO
some out of the way port and later 10
government vessel and deliver 1t nj
Cork.
MacSwiney was forty-one years OLD
and was one Of the most prominent SIM
Fencrs He started life as a draper
assistant. hut became n poet, author and
n playwright before taking up politics
seriously Later he became violently
anti-English.
willis in wekencld jail. Yorkshire. In
1915, he met Mur'e! Murphy. daughter
Of a wealthy Cork d!stilier. who visited
the Jail and shortly after they were
married despite much oppnsitiont
member from Cork to the British par
h,,, took his scat.