Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1920 — MAC SWINEY IS DYING [ARTICLE]

MAC SWINEY IS DYING

Last Moments at Hand—Critical, Home Office States. Cork Mayor's Sitters Barred From Brixton Prison Bedside—lnterfered With Nursing. London. Oct. 25.—Grave reports were in circulation regarding the condition of Terence MacSwiuey, lord mayor of Cork, on the seventy-sec-ond day of bis hunger strike in Brixton prison. A statement issued by the Exchange Telegraph company at that hour declared the lord mayor’s last moments were at hand. The bulletin of the Irish Self-Deter-mination league on the lord mayor’s condition, however, stated the league had been Informed that he was in about the same state as recently. He was unconscious, its information said. "However,” added the statement, “the home office has placed an embargo on the use of the telephone for communi< i atlng news to the outside nial of admission to the lord 'mayor’s sisters, Mary and Annie, to visit him.” The home official explained the denla lof admission to the lord mayor’s sisters as being due only to the belief that their visits Interfered with the careful nursing which the prisoner’s extremely delicate condition required.