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...Mountjoy with seedy sinners...
...Quare Fellow, a Manhattan-bound three-act play that won critical applause in London last year, Irish Puppeteer Behan performs a farcical jig on the trap in the Hanging and Flogging wing of a prison remarkably like Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill...
Civil Servant. In Mountjoy, Ont., Wilf Perreault, fed up, resigned from his job as the town's police chief, fire warden, dogcatcher, tax collector, poundkeeper, building inspector, liquor inspector, fence viewer, cemetery inspector, weight inspector and school attendance officer...
Raiding the home of Mrs. Kathleen Brugha, detectives found Parachutist Marschner. He had been hiding there since March, when the I.R.A. helped him to escape from Mountjoy Prison. They did not arrest Mrs. Brugha, widow of General Cathal Brugha, onetime De Valera defense minister who died a hero's death in 1922. But they did arrest Mrs. Brugha's pretty daughter, Noinin. And they picked up enough evidence on McGuinness to put him away for seven years...
South of the border the world's most belligerently neutral censorship produced an atmosphere "like an aquarium in which the water is never changed." When German Parachutist Hans Marchner skipped Mountjoy jail, although rewards for capture were posted, newspapers were not allowed to publish picture or description...