MURPHY FOLLOWS LORD MAYOR TO GRAVE / IRELAND AND ENGLAND ARE STIRRED FOLLOWING DEATH OF IRISH LEADER; MURPHY THIRD OF STRIKERS DEAD

# MURPHY FOLLOWS LORD MAYOR TO GRAVE ## IRELAND AND ENGLAND ARE STIRRED FOLLOWING DEATH OF IRISH LEADER; MURPHY THIRD OF STRIKERS DEAD *The Butte Miner, Tuesday morning, October 26, 1920, p. 1, cols. 6-7 (Home Edition; the top banner spans all seven columns, the second headline and the lead paragraphs columns 6-7, the rest column 7). The printed date under the masthead is torn and covered by a pencilled "Oct 26"; every dateline in the story reads "Oct. 25".* By Associated Press. Cork, Oct. 25.—Joseph Murphy, one of the hunger strikers in Cork jail, died tonight. The death of Murphy occurred at 8:35 p. m. He was 25 years old and unmarried. Murphy was a member of the Irish volunteersIreland: movements, law & landIrish Volunteersfounded 1913The nationalist militia formed in Dublin in November 1913 in answer to the Ulster Volunteers. A minority of it carried out the 1916 Rising; it became the Irish Republican Army.More in Key terms → and was well known as an athlete. London, Oct. 25.—Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, most prominent of the Irish hunger strikers and said to have been the brains of the republican army, died early today in Brixton prison. The end was not unexpected, for the mayor had been unconscious several days. He was entering the seventy-fourth day of his hunger strike as a protest against a sentence of two years' imprisonment on several charges, including one of possessing seditious documents. ### Wife Not Present. Only his brother, John MacSwiney, and his private chaplain, Father Dominic, were with him. Mrs. MacSwiney and the prisoner's two sisters, Annie and Mary, were at a nearby hotel. The lord mayor, who was terribly emaciated, as a result of his long abstinence from food, had been delirious many hours, and was unconscious when death came. It was several hours after the lord mayor died before his brother was permitted to tell Mrs. MacSwiney the sad news. She immediately went to the prison, accompanied by her parents, and the Misses MacSwiney, and the family group, stoical and dry-eyed, prayed over the body. There were no untoward demonstrations outside the prison after the news became generally known. A large force of police had been concentrated to put down any disorder that might occur. ### Plans Undecided. It is well within the possibilities that the body will be taken to Cork secretly to avoid unpleasant results from whatever demonstrations might be arranged in England and Ireland along the route traversed by the train bearing the body. There is no intimation that any official advocates refusal to send it to Cork. The home office, in charge of the prisoners, which would control the movement of the body in England, said no plans for its removal had been officially considered. At the Irish office, it was declared no plan had been formulated for the transfer of the body to Ireland, and that final decision would rest with Dublin Castle. It is within the powers of the home office to give up the body of a prisoner in whatever way deemed most expedient. It is pointed out that it could legally transfer the body in secret to some out-of-the-way port and later to a government vessel and deliver it at Cork. ### Cause of Death. The cause of MacSwiney's death was heart failure, according to a statement by the home office. This statement is considered an indirect answer to the criticisms of Dr. Josiah Oldfield, the physican [sic] and publicist, who had declared it was wrong for the lord mayor's doctors to administer meat juice and brandy. He said brandy was a poison, and that a man at the point of death was very susceptible to poison. Dr. Oldfield added that when a man fasted a long time the first food he could endure was fruit juice. When one of the officials was asked today regarding Mrs. MacSwiney's absence from the bedside when death occurred, he repield [sic] that the restrictions which were recently imposed upon the visits of relatives were urged by the attending physicians as vital to the prisoner's own interests. ### ACTION AT CORK. Cork, Oct. 25.—The news of Lord Mayor MacSwiney's death, received in private telegrams to his friends, traveled quickly throughout the city. A meeting of the city council to discuss the situation arising from the lord mayor's death was called for today. The deputy lord mayor announced that he and several other municipal officers would proceed to the Brixton prison today. He stated that plans for TURN TO UAGE [sic] THREE—COLUMN 1. [continued on p. 3, col. 1; not in the archive] *[Text checked against the page scan at 3x, 21 Oct 2026, starting from the tile-by-tile page reading of 20-21 Oct 2026. The page's own other items (not part of this article) include the second banner BOMB EXPLOSION WRECKS HOME OF SEATTLE RAILROAD OFFICIAL (F. R. Shong in the lead, F. B. Shong in the body), DEMONSTRATION ON IRISH CAUSE HELD IN GOTHAM (Dudley Field Malone, Walter E. Holloway; "Premier Lloyd George and Government Criticized"), the photograph DEATH ENDS MAYOR'S STRIKE, "DRYS" VICTORIOUS IN CANADIAN STATE and CHAMPION VAG LEFT $60,000 IN WILL; all are in the page record.]*