wwwiipwf7ippwwiipw Www ,?(, jfcl &,5"; miw; '' i 1 J-'jr, . -V EVENING PUBLIC "(LEDGBRT'HHlA3teCPHM rMQjyPAYl AUGUST 2&1922 'W.SB ! WiJ Hi . Wt T YWijesa s ? THE ART S LAST KISS IS SOLEMN IRELAND'S MAN OF IR OS FOR "MICK" COLLINS, REQUIEM 'IN H 1 I Kll Sniper s Shet Put Tragic Final Chapter te Remance of Pretty Kitty Kiernan and Leader of Free State Army as They Awaited JVedding Day 'DEATH CAME ON FIRST DAY SET FOR CEREMONY, BUT POSTPONED FOR A MONTH i I JVill'0'-Wisp of Revolution, Who Laughed at Traps of Fees, Gave Werd of Betrothal in Retort te Slur at Princess Mary r- m &.W. iS f A COLLEEN weeps today in Ireland ever her heroic dead! There are doubtless ethers today who weep in Ireland, but none has been dealt with se ironically by death as she. Because she has come te be known everywhere, because she is identi fied with the leader of a great national movement, one thinks of her as aemething apart from life, apart from human tragic tears, his trunk. They did and he thanked them profusely. And they never knew that It was Michael Cellins himself they were helping. Cellins happened te be hiding In a friendly home one day which had just had a bereavement, in an upper room, n en of the family lay dead In his coffin. In one way or ether the English dis covered that he was hiding In that house. They pounded at the deer. "Micky" heard them, rushed te the upper fleer, took the corpse out of the celfin and lay down In It himself. Because It was the room of the dead, the constabulary only made a cursory examination of it. They left, and "Mick" lespectfully surrendered his plncc of concealment te the dead man, whose refuge by right it was. One night the heue In which he slept was raided. Cellins jumped out of bed, leaped through a window. climbed ever the reef. He was tn uis nightshirt, but carried hi clothes. In a dark alley lie pin en ins clothes und then lelstire'.y walked around te the front of the heue wheie he had been sleeping and enjoyed the remaining activity of the raiders. Arranged Teeling Escape Frem British Stronghold Terhaps his most spectacular feat was the escape of Francis Teeling from the Kllmainball .Intl. Cellins, whom the police were scouting for with eyes of hawks, niranged the entire scheme, lie cot three pretty little girls of the Camman Nainban. or Girl Kcetit. te In dispute, and his wit was trenchant and Incisive. He loved debating, and was overwhelming when he flashed his net very geed teeth, or whipped back the long lock of hair tbnt fell ever his forehead. Sparc moments, when he was net arguing he devoted te drill ing with the ether Londen Irish at Wormwood Scrubs. In 101i". at the age of twenty-five, he returned te Dublin. He hired him self out first as accountant, and then became secretary te the Sinn Fein leader, Count Plunkett. Frem April, 1010 en for n space, he wandered from one branch of the postal service te another. He fought in the rebellion of 1010, though at the time, he was simply an inconspicuous member of n large force of eung men us enthusiastic and as courageous as himself. He was cap tured during that rebellion and de ported te Wandsworth Prison and later sent te the Frongoch internment camp. It was in 1D1S. after months of guerrilla wnrfnrc that he whs elected a member of the Dail Kireann fren. his home district of Seuth Cerk. And here in this tumultuous council chamber, "Mlck" surprised all his friend. They knew he could handle an ar gument with tlie best of them, but they had net icallzed that he was a S3' But gene. t her heart s broken today, because "M ckv" Ce ins is dead and Uln with three Temmies who guarded . . .,,,. . ... ' ., ... . , '. . ... -.. ,!ie entrance te the prison. The merry Plain "Micky Cellins net the Minister of Finance of the Dan ,.jri, urP( tne soldiers Inte a neigh - Eircann. nor the commander-in-chief of the Irish National Army but ber's house. And there. Instead of the "Micky" Cellins, with his brogue, his flashing smile, his capricious ways. ffienT BJzl Inte the2 ceM muzzfe of Shet through the head en the day I 1 automatics. They were stripped of , nA Mt vittw k-im-nnr, nf with thp Tie VnleHstin ever the ouestlen i their clothes. Three of Cellins' men County Langford, had a year age j of the treaty, although no longer planned te be married. h10"I1'lffl b? the Britlh- h." n r" (,.,.. , ., , , , . the best of terms with thp irregulars. Shet through the head by men of his own country after he had eluded Forced te Fight for Life for half a decade the guns of the Against Fellow Countrymen forces of England, which had placed , 0 ApH1 17 h wag en h, wav t0 a bounty of 550,U0U en nis head, his home In Dublin, when n croup et ?mH nr nllvp I "regulars ten upon m punv. It doesn't much matter te anybody new what the politics and the sym pathies of "Micky" were. Today he Hp and the few men with him fired back, and thp ambusher fled. "We only shot n few round." he crlnned after that affair. "I don't be- I lleve In wasting ammunition." is a heroic figure who has passed f Twe day before he wa actually KU.eu lit juivstMi ussa-sumi I'm u, iuwi- esi cnance. ir was Known turn: up was away. The fate of a nation or na tiens may hang en his going, but what is that compared te the heart of a maid broken. Often Warned Cellins When Fees Were Near Many's the time has Kitty run through the darkness of the night te warn the man she loved that his ene- niei were close upon him Cellins as com mander of Irish Army dbO rasa ' HM m H "tV- m, mi ra Mm U-f, S trJL ? ,s,yv3 S-MkJ. S.l .... .li1V;0' &&K".yi ft- kt mzvi w ;jw. v $Wtti t3H KiP w; FTiimrifflMai rw. .y-sii s Wall ever Irelnn.1 Aat. l3 S!.,n'?nn 'mpasslened mlvecat 31 ?sr!ii!ym tlm nnf.: "'."f!. .nna IfOm thiii, jsSjssV'Bwe1 whele movement. A story is told of him durlnr tP, German-plot round-up of loin B red Un tn hia h- . tli. e.1"' Ittc . ..3 ":-""' " "is nivver m iiA:"y.uuCt?W.i"5? p?M:.: street from hi, hn, .."." K5T. ",crM . W ieh'"ta.M.AhiH.!!ffi K (,,r. fe "VLWA hUmachlie-inte the & 'anVwea i Dancers Put te Reut by Cellins Unthlnkinalu E& Jl0ZA!&?. .MP .Cladeidhfl -e . me urcsnnm Metel tn DuMl. i SfcS" ?nre"d n acenfer..?; J wuitu uin nnr pnn itntii mM.i.l. jt another hall of the hotel a ba f"i5 ' A correspondent, detailed te nuesHdi I Cellins about an event whiA hS i25-l only casually mentioned In publicatle? 5 arrived a monent. or , ..- Kl.V.?a1 !fij&-ri nni,,l.f ....--- "'"..yue C?m.' ..w.. .UCe,aB: m zoning ienM fe, ?lre.edy hl pajamas. S iUlCKV. aiwam nhllrln V.JTi?" I slipped en his well-known raincoat id1 follewwl thp boy downstairs. "m In the hall leading upon the brllllut dancehall, Micky, for semn imCS "own, stepped, and said he wealS',1 ...,..... v v..varuuuiii, j,ue corn, spendent came, and Cellins. .nttU , oblivious of his garb ana surrounding (f 1 Immediately lest himself In his mSm-H te tne correspenaent'a questions. In a moment he was vigorenily' swinging his arms. His raincoat flapwd open and the shirt of his nalnm. .u flapped out. Cellins had just begun te ; iiuuiiu uie ercui uiuuu ana pare CBMt when two young women approached, i xney were snecKed nt the slihtj unmindful of them. A short meminl niier einer women came 10 tne hau re be shocked. They were; finally tat matron of the hotel was summoned. The matron, indignant, approached the fleer waiter and complained. "But 'tis Himself," said the waiter. ' "I don't care who he may be," tie mm celnc te Gre.vstene. Ceuntv Wicklow But it happened that hi Kolls-Reyce. known te evprv one of his eiipmles. broke down. He changed cars. Hut a band of Irregular, unaware of the j change In machines, waited te ppet hi car at Stillergan. Thp broken car. towed along, rounded a corner of the read, and the Irregulars fired en it The dmer was wounded and the car wrecked. Had Cellins been in it he probably would have neen sl.iln then. ' Trw1n t!k a! emiv. jf n.Ai a U Mn,. .1" , ' .-" .....m,..Tj..,...-s u iuc lie """ J cuiinny nazarneu lite lie led. It Zm . " v-P if-f' ' X sSi Is small wendpr that "Mlck" had a prp prp prp monitlen of hi death. Certain it is be neer told Kltt, but her heart doubtless told her. Just before tne day of his death. , when he wa leaving a friend, the i hearty boyish soldier bid geed-by te a, friend. j "Geed-by," he said, with a slew, sad smile. "I will say goed-bv. be cause I don't expect I will be seel'n' jeu ' again." And he didn't, although It seemed then impeslbp te his friend that "Mick" would eer perish. His life seemed curleuslj guarded againit the tragedies that fall uren the usual life of a soldier He was something of a pixlp. hemethins of the strange elim inatien of humor and manic which iVl'-' &&& ''. ,VA w l & I the time has she saved him. But te day all that is ever. Today she has only her imme imme Bterial dreams. Today she can but raeall that dark night the Black and Tans were after her fiance. He was lying In a hut, catching a few hours' leap en the run. She heard the meter lorries of the nemy rumbling by her father's old tavern at Granard. Net an hour be fore she had left "Micky" with a brave smile. She rushed out of the deer, through the black night, Wrted hedges, jumped ditches and haunts the heroic tales of Dark Resa- wnKea iUicjty witn u iiysieiuai knocking at the deer. When the lor ries arrived "Micky" was gene. I Kitty Is a tall woman, a fit mate for a six-footer, with an indomitable will light brown hair and blue eye, with emethlng of the w a ward will e' the boy about her. Triumphant, glad in her heart that abe had saved the man whom a great nation feared, she returned te the tav rn and found It smoldering in ruins. Her parents had died when she was young and she had some money. She was wrapped up in love for her lana and devoted her efforts te the service el the Irish White O'res. the nurses' ' branch of the Sinn Fein. Taunt Frem Countess Brought Story of Wooing The world did net knew she was betrothed te Michael Cellins until fe ' day that negotiations were being maIe between Great Britain and Ireland frr the peace treaty. Durlnp the debate en the treaty in the Dail Kireann, CeKins took Countess Markiewicz te task for referring bumoreuMv te the probability' that Princess Mary's engagement te Lord Lascelles might be broken off "se he could marry Michael Cellins " Cellins In bis speech declared that th Countess' statement might caup pain "te the Princess or te the ladv who is betrothed te me I will net nllew t te pass without challenge or allow ar, deputy In thi asseinbh of my natimi i 'Milt any lady of this nation or any ether nation " And that was "Micky's" wnv. The pair were betrothed formally about a year age. The marriage was et for Tuesday, August 22 Hut Ar thur Griffith, president of the Irish nation, died en August 12 and thp wed ding was postponed for a month. It was en the night of August 22. however, that Cellins and eleven ether men were returning from an important meeting. They had reached Ilanden. County Cerk, when en a lonely read their machines were fired upon from behind bordering trees. About 250 men cemnrlsed the ambuscade. The driver of Cellins car wanted te "". H V fAI u K. -& : W W2"K tt& &?A &M .rPVvV- M lYA" '. t :...! .'' 7.v-: JR& X t-4l I "N ':i!l' -.i'- ' $&k. ti& ly h? tYv; & t&m a it ,!' " :&& fiW'i -!- s t JS. &' !tf $ M.ichael Cellins (left) and his fiancee, Kitty Kiernan m it 'lr2i . Wi Pi'Sti M .r.i- CTL iiV.v'A as a MfrS &J :&i n . j mv-. A r " .fr'. KKS HRH9R m A - fasw '" M mm ' v mmmM Vj , 'i '?.,' , v,? KJ sAK '0C,' J?M' Cellins' mother, grandmother and sister deen Paring, powerfully built, with denned the uniform and went sweg-j thinker. That Iip could talk with an e b"ih as active as his uncanny wit3, serine back te the jail. convince gentlemen with gentlemen' he nwherl tln-nnuh the sinister dnvs of A 'Iul" lntf'r thre" "Tnmmle ' weie siirech en Ills teiU'iie, ns well as will he rushed tl-reughtue sinister days et 6epj) strelnR , of the prUen uh thp reundPr into ,hlklnK Us way. Re the tight f r Inn liberty like some prlsenpr Teelins:. A car chugged up idea this, he ren Inced his neclntr nd emen a hip tight f r Inh liberty like some prlsenpr Teelins:. A car chugged up idea this, he ren Inced his neclnteR un. -.tenens elf. i te the gate of the prison. Teeling and that he wa an organizer a young man the "Temmies" bearded the ear and who found out facts knowing their laiuea te Ijieyu uvuryv ciiiiggeu away ine inner or tnnt car strength beyond nil oratory, a young tt-iti r..; .. ; IIr,rl "as pl"Hf' "Mickj," chuckling and man with an inepllrahle control ever Wltll t'rice OH lilS tieaa .triumphant. men It 1 -aid that he was a pi't master Collin -no thirty one years old I'rem the middle of 1018 en. he was nt dis"uiM Stories nie tnld that whpn the irregulai bullet ri ashed into organizer and adjutant of thp Irish durliiL-'the wn dm when EngllMi were his head. And bl thirty-one jears HeuliitlenaM Aimv. TbU was called combing the whe'i'e of Ireland for the ludged bv bl experience, were three ,nrleusly "the murder gang," "the man thev considered the met danger- "nes longer than mortal years. l,nnd of gunmen," ' the blackguards," there be was in ueikimii. unce, up wns porn in i.euniy i eru ann . ie me cukmmi. -..j .1,.. .,,, r'nlllnci --,l u ' . It 1 leperien, ne iuui IjIdju mii, -v-imjuii-u hi. luiitiniii , in-ur ii"viu- peed ahead, but Cellins ordered him te , ' ,lr, ',, ,; ' , nexer r.-fei:nize,i the ben. He wa the seu of humble ' Rhirlptl rirtrr Trnna I. . .. li. .. n.i.Hml .. ..I.n (nHlnAvf' n.iil ...Hn.ii... l.n ...m. ... Tlin blllll. MIUIIKi HClllilllV IlUlllim lllllll M IW ill, ,14f -, Ullli Ullirniui 11V r- in in' lalked'wltb him about the wtaiher. lower m-IioeI It is said that he un" l-n until flu. .lnv of the treat ncree. 'even tlien u mlM-nieveus lllil, getting bait. And in his open machine this man of adventure directed the defense against a force twenty times larger than hU own Set by British Fees A the '.5' . , , ., . ,, , , ,ii i,i, rni'lnn'il Ciilins um snuiH- iti tricks that npiinlled hU elder" Durng a lull In the fire. ( elllns spied ment witn i.iis,ianu. iinns wui mine n unirn'r moving along the ditch becide thing of n mten te een bis ..wn men. 'Mick dldn t llue school mucli. erSad He lWm hi ear S He dedl publ.clt, II- d.d nut pen.i.t and the lower grades proved suUi, I M.t ..it.... . .KH.fMrtin. lt ... .. . i. litu titi'iiirc til in1 LiiKt'ii ii ije-ii in- n ml rii'jiit i"i uiiti if liiiu i "n i "i" moment there wa. a sharn cracklni f e meVti, he enteird b the back wa . Ing in the pest.illi.-e nt Londen, a... 2,m nnrl "Mickv,j " smii areun 1 nn, ?r.wds uirel saw him. Half the hen he wns lifiee,, )elned her then KfrnhUd te the ereuml , HrltWi forces knew his appearance enl and beenme a sorter of malls. ' CIcdrJ,ntMIcKkrv'U.nhet!" c,.n,l J 1 a portrait which had been taken,. Before the World War broke out 1 MMy Ged 1 Micky's shot ! of his own men. had taken a reursp at King's Cellei and i(! trim one '."" ...,.." . ... i,u ilc wlien euiuH " ... ... ...vm... a i.l.l I.. TtLKIIn fliii pnn M "SLl.rfremgiVlng, ! MZaa'wPlWul.e'g,, Cellins I;onde effi.e of the Guaranty Trust i 3 ini he fifteen minutes that he 1Ium he who, theyhnd earned, was in tl.e city. ' ?F ennble 1 I h, aUne 3K ' huna ever the side of his car, pumping II. was described te the M.ldle s : , Uh e, mbled n . p'"--' WA .bullets into the brush where the Irregu- nther tall .veung man wmi .. . uunie - . ' ' ,.iffi .. -.r concealed. i flmnlln mustiichc. uuii i.ii.nnn. i finally he fell back and gasped "Fer- The police guard at the station were TeQf. lfc Other Side" .?J. i ' '.ml And let the Uiihlin nmirda esneclally cautioned te watih for Cel- ' " "- "w . . re tJarfry me with the bejsl" They veiv , litis In the middle of the day a ar fj0vcd a Debate ? ii kla l..f nnrili. I mil I And it was Ci.lllns' coolness and re source that made it possible fei him i te elude the Lnglisli. He was an in defatigable worker, sleeping when he J t eiilcl get his sleep liesides, he could i'lf en about ns little sleep as It U pfissibln for n n v man te lle en His I working days lasted usually fiem six in the morning te three the next morn t ru last words ilcky's ucat eiaecttd. even te hlra death was niVt entirely un- hen he broke ,eunfi. smooth faced priest entered the i Itntinn nnil sneke te the soldiers. He . asked then, te help him a moment with 'side' had entered the employ of the ' ing three hours' sleep apparently being lIHMIKll IU1 I,. in ...i... ... ,itl..jj( l.J.in l.ttja There is no doubt-hut what Cellins ciew In mental In emit h with his cause. He was originally net what lulglii be called (i schooled man. lie was Reed at arithmetic, but the ether blanches of learning didn't interest him ii.uch But he loved lusten. lie read i'ir) Patrick Cellins, a Chicago policeman, brother of dead leader Cellins in a debating mood protested. "It's disgraceful te hiw naked man "Sure, and Mick had mere clethd.l en mm than she had nt tliat, con- mented flip u-nlter. "If you don't de something," StM the woman, "I'll call the manager.' "Rut, ma'am, you don't understand. Can't you see that it de be 'Mick' Col Cel lins himself?" She gasped and fled. " ; T.nfcef rpnrtrtu Rtntn thnt Tem Hlld, who admits he Is responsible for the ambuscade which resulted In tne aeu of the Irish general, has since repu-, dlated the entire business. He W thrown down his arms and offered t join the national forces. Micky was dressed for burial 1 tne t)loeu-6taincu uniieriu which : ""'ii when the sniper's shot killed BUMl M -vs., rra ISSi y W c3 v Tem Halen, reported leader of nmhush party which killed Cellins -UjHi' U ing Street with Lloyd Geerge and ether Ministers, net se many mouths age, he was well able te held Ida own. On his leturn te Dublin, he was made head of the previsional govern ment, and when Arthur Griffith be came Its president Cellins wns madp commander-in-chief of the nrniy. Michael, who wrote his name in Gaelic Mlcenl OVellleatn with the liv t name pri noun, e.l ".Meelunvr few seconds. His hands were strong and his fingers these of a man used te heavy labor. He was usually smiling j but there were moments when his face went harder than Iren, ami the jaw of him bulged out like n crag. In these. iii'iiieuis ins Kiniiiy eyes burned te tlie Station and spoke te the soldiers. He , "Micky" G ex every nueawvu. a.ic naa umi ..---.... . .... ... u..- iU(lqn,tM wns n mnll n( iihriilt 1f)H niimulu 1T I illn. nf Lfanl n.,.l' .t.n.. ....... ... .:..... . i,.. i. ni.i fi.,,1 .. i..t,i, . '"' ",', .;:-;: .-...:" "i .'. r : " ",v " . .n--u-meu irum I lUUlt, no jl "- suv.... ...... ui, itirii WHS II IIJHC lllCUIIVU 10 blUUlHCSH, DUt I llln presence verr nuletlv. nervous as h cat. He never! Apparently be was an Ideal director In one position mere than a I of an army secretly organized, secretly Irish soldiers in Dublin drilled, of an atmy whose chief warfare was n haphazard kind of banditry. It was necessaiily be. of course, but It demanded u man of lightnlns wits and Immense fortitude Kv guide it. While organizing and conducting the activities of hl.-t se.ittered bumla he proved tp be the inett active officer In the organization which raided funds te support the wives and children of the men Imprisoned or executed. He tray Whl1 b. nines nt Ireland we 80MW' Ing lament, Kitty Kiernan leaned erl his bier, placed her gentle hand en twi black stnn and kissed her levM'l urenzeii iereueuu. vm It was u simple thing much siepl'J tl.r... tl.n nnmn mill IprflinOIlV 01 I f,..i..i ......., in.i v0t It aeema 1 1 ' the most bitterly pathetic moment Micky's tragedy. I 4 1 r I'Mj- &tyr&H.,ri-
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