The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-14
ALTAR SET UP
OUTSIDE DOOR:
CANDLES BURN
Hundreds Knelt in Road
way and Prayed Until
Forced to Rise When
Armed Car Moved Back
and Forth-Ireland Pro-
foundIy Stirred BY Exc
cutiOn.

Dublin, March l4.-Six prisoners
convicted of completely in the killing
of British intelligence officers and mem-
hers of the crown forces in Ireland,
were executed in Mount Joy prison to-
dav. They we're hanged in pairs at IN
tervals of an hour
Twenty thousand people gathered
outside the prison during the execu-
tions. All work in the city stopped un-
iii II o'clock. Even the postoffice was
closed and telegraph and wireless teie-
graph service was suspended.
The crowd began assembling in front
of the prison at dawn and by o'clock
the prison gard was packed, An hour
later the crowd had filled the roadway
leading to the prison and all the abut-
ting streets. An altar had been impro-
Iyised near the prison doors and on the
walls and trees in the prison yard
sacred images and pictures had been
placed.
Everywhere candles were burned,
scores of persons in the heart OF the
dense tfrong holding them aloft
throughout the long vigil. Here and
.4here priests or women led in prayers
or hymns in which everyone joined
earnestly. Hundreds kneeling in the
roadway were forced to rise when an
.armored car made its way through the
crowd. From ) O'Clock this morning it
had moved back and forth in fronts of
,lthe prison. On the roof of the Jail over
looking the entrance. a cast iron SEN
try box had been erected over night
from which soldier kept watch on
1.-THE crowd.
Two Of the men executed, Patrick
Moran and Thomas Whelan, were
charged with completely in the killing
Iof intelligence officers in Dublin on
November 81 last. Whelan's two broth
,ers are in the United States. one of
them in the American army. The other
-four, Frank Flood, Bernard Ryan,
Thomas Ryan and Patrick Doyle. were
accused Of participating in an ambush
near here in January, in which one
member Of the attacking party was
killed
Not since the executions following
the 1916 uprisings. with the possible
Excepting on the hanging of keven
lRarrv in November lastsfor an attack
ON a military escort. has Ireland been
more profoundly stirred. Although q
O'Clock had been fixed for the execution
of the first pair IL was not until s:2O
that the crowd knew the fate Of the
prisoners At that time the following
notice was posted outside the jail
gates;
"The sentence Of the Law passed on
Thomas Whelan and Patrick Moran,
found guilty Of murder. and on Thomas
Byran, Patrick Doyle. Frank Flood and
Bernard Ryan, found guilty Of high
treason in levying war. has been carried
linto execution.
No hint reached the watching multi
sude Of the grim proceedings going on
in a distant wing Of the big prison, but
hourly. beginning al 6 o'clock. the ros
.ary was recited. But for a hum Of rev
erent voices aud the occasional sob Of
a woman. profound silence was main
sained-
shortly after posting of the notice
that the executions had been carried
ont. the vast gathering dispersed silent
" many later attending the funeral
of Patrick Doyles twin baby Mrs
nevie with the other twin in her arm
visited her husband yesterday to say
good bve. Mrs Bryan. who was taken
suddenly IN before her husbands sen
feu-e was confirmed was not told until
Yesterday that be was 20 b. executed.
She aas conveyed 90 the prison yester-
day afternoon for a farewell visit. Ev-
cry church was crowded az masses cele-
lHated after the executions Tor the re
1u-e of the mems souls.
The atmosphere 81 the city VAS RTE
with anxiety about developments after
fhe hauEinEs EKcepi for = few lorTy-
lasds 81 military on the alert vita ~
a.. 81 thc ready thtre was q con
sFienous absence 81 crown forces On
sha streets today and not an uuarmcd