Word: mulgrew
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Papers made much of the fact that the first prisoner sentenced was a U.S. citizen, John Mulgrew. He went to the U. S. in 1923, became naturalized, returned to Ireland in 1930. Last week he was charged with being a member of the executive council of Communistic Saor Eire, a position to which he had confessed. U. S. Citizen Mulgrew swore that the confession was "twisted out of me by the third degree." Nevertheless he was sentenced to six months at hard labor to be followed by deportation...
Besides John Mulgrew, Free State authorities were worried about another U. S. importation last week. Government speakers had had to stand a barrage of interruptions from a device known as "the rubber razzberry," an inexpensive instrument of defamation popular with Hollywood comedians and Bronx hoodlums. Deplored the Dublin Irish Press...