Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-25

October, 1917, secured his release
from jail by hunger striking.
Demonstration Prevented.
As soon as the news Of the lord
mayors death began to spread thru
the city small knots Of people began
moving toward Brixton prison. The
police, however, did not allow any one
to move into the street leading to the
prison entrance.
Fears had previously been expe-
lrienced that the lord mayors death
might cause a demonstration at the
prison.
| The MacSwiney family arranged
during the morning for the removal
of 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
to Dublin, where it is planned to
place the body for a day or two in
the mansion house.
MacSwiney's grave will be along
side that Of his political predecessor,
Lord Mayor Thomas MacCurtain, who
was shot in his own home in Cork on
March 20.
Government May Upset Plans.
Macswiney will be the fourth to be
buried in this plot, the other being
MacCurtain: Sheamus McQuirke,
who was taken out of bed in his Gall
way hcme and shot: and jeremiah
McNesty, who participated in the
Easter rising in Dublin 1915.
These arrangements are contigent
upon the possibility Of governmental
| interference, which. however. is re-
garded as unlikely. The progress of
the funeral party from Dublin to
Cork will be marked by series Of
services at all popular centers en-
route Final obsequies will be held in
Cork catherdral and interment will
be made in st. Fin Barr's cemetery
| in Cork. The grave in which Mac
Swiney will be buried is known as
Republican Plot" which has been
reserved for Irish nationalist SOL
! Giors.
No Tears Shed by Widow. =
A friend Of the MacSwiney family
who accompanied Mrs. MacSwiney
When she visited Brixton prison this
morning said the lord mayors tele-
gram of Oct, Is to the Cork hunger
| strikers with reference to the death
Of the hunger striker. Michael Fitz-
gerald, in Cork Jail. in which he re-
ferred to Fitzgerald as having died
for his country and Joined the i'm
mortals, characterized the family's
attitude.
| Mrs. MacSwiney and the lord
MAYORS sisters. MARY and Anne, who
were not present when the end came.
entered the cell, kissed the mayors
cheek, knelt silently in prayer a few
moments, and then left" the friend
said. There was not tear shed by
the mayeress, who preserved the
| same stoical self-possession she has
shown thruout the long ordeal"
The death of Lord Mayor Mac
| Swiney was the first of an Irish
hunger striker to occur in England.
Just a week ago on the occasion Of
| the death Of Michael Fitzgerald. one
of the eleven hunger strikers in the
Cork Jail, the lord mayor telegraphed.
1--WE do not know who is to be the
second to step in the path of i'm
| sacrifice we are safeguarding the
| destinies of Ireland
Plan Great Funeral.
| The news OF the lord mayors death
| spread rapidly thruout the United
Kingdom and preparations for
great funeral Were Immediately begun
| by the Sim Fein. The plans, contin-
gent upon government approval.t in
clude the body lying in state in st.
5seorge's cathedral in London and
Mi. mansion house in Dublin, and a
Mr.. es Of services en- route from
!, ut In to Cork. Similar plans were
| l en- some time ago when it appear
q, cat the lord mayor was about to
die, and it is known that at that time
the government took steps to repress
what 1t might consider any undue
demonstration, Just what the attitude
of the government will be in the
present case Is not known. but it ap-
peared certain that no large demon