The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
Government Orders Coffin Sent To Cork
 Instead Of Dublin
When Mrs. MacSwiney and MacSwiney's Sis ters Protest Against the Change They Are Forcibly Torn From the Coffin-Reported sThat the Women Were Knocked Down-Body Sent to Cork.

Holyhead Wales, Oct. 2s. (By the A. P)-When day broke this morn ing over the Irish Sea the steamer Baltimore, bearing the body of the late Terence MacSwiney was steam ing southward off the Welsh head lands on it's way to Cork. At the same hour, the relative sof Mac Swlney, who refused to board the special steamer provided to take thsm and tn lord mayors body to Cork were on their~way to Dublin, almost airectly ar 1 across the narrow strait which divides Albion from Erin. Shipment of MacSwiney's body direct to Cork was precede dby a violent scene in which blows were struck and
 members of the lord mayors family
 were dragged from their railway
 coach at the Ho1yhead railway sta
 t1on. They refused to consent to the governments plan to take the body
 to Cork instead of Dublin and it was
 only after they had been placed un-
 der virtual temporary arrest that the
 body was taken from the train and
 hauled to the dock where the Rath-
 more was waiting.
 At Crewe, just outside of London
 the superintendent of the London
 Metropolitan police in charge of
 three coaches filled with constables
 aceeompanying con the party, was handed
 wood, Secretary for Ireland and ad-
 dressed to the widow of the late lord
 mayor. It read:
 I. Mad Madame; me I en am advised that the
 mayor in Dublin may lead to a demonstration of a political nature. l regret therefore the Irish govern
 ment cannot allow the disembarka- tion of his remains at any other port in Ireland except his native city of Cork. In order to save you every inconvenience the government has directed the London and Northwest ern Railway company to provide a suitable steamer to the m iy,ez
 direct to Cork from Ho1yhead. This
 steamer will also carry you and
 twenty of yours friends, if you so desire.''
 Sir Hamar's letter was handed to
 John MacSwiney, who remarked that the lady mayoress was not on board the train.
 When the train arrived here about midnight MT. O'Brien, London execu- tive of the Irish Self-Determination League, who represented the family on tn funeral train, demanded that the station master fulfill the contract to carry the body to Cork by way Of Kingston, port near Dublin. That official was arraging for the transfer l of the body and mourners by way of Kingston when he was told the superintendent of police wanted to speak with him.
 When the station master returned he said:
 "My orders are that the body must | De placed on board the ESath m ore for shipment to Cork and they will be obeyed."
 Deputy Mayor O'Callghan of Cork, shaking his finger in the station | masters face said:
 You and your government are body | snatchers. You are going to seize a | dead body, and we refuse to accom-
 pany you and your nefarious expedi- 1 tion." i The station master went to the bag gage car where the mourners were grouped around the 1ower-decked box containing the coffin, and ordered the box removed to the steamer. When they heard his order, Annie and Mary MacSwiney, sisters of the dead hun ger striker, cried def1nantly: You have murdered our brother and you are not going to arrest his body.''
 The mourners refused to allow the porters to touch the casket and were 1 ordered to leave the car. They de- cIined and constables forcibIy dragged
 some of the male mourners from the | car. They struck at the police, who
 drew their truncheons while women
 in the party shrieked:
 Body snatchers! Shame!'' | (Continued on Page 6.)