TWO MARYS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2775, 17 October 1923, Page 5

TWO MARYS.

HUSH DEPORTEE CLAIMS COMPENSATION. "KEPT JOLLY IN MOUNTJOY." [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, October 15. The compensation tribunal, consisting of Mr Justice Atkins, and King's Counsel Sir Hugh Fraser and Sir Francis Taylor, met in London to hear the claims of the Irish deportees. The fh-st claimant that a schoolmistress named Miss Kathleen Mary Brooks. The Attorney-General represented the Treasury.

Plaintiff's counsel said that she had not participated in the Irish movement. She lived with a sister named Nbrah Mary and five brothers. The genesis of the arrest apparently was the fact that letters addressed "Miss M. Brooks" were sent to her ho'use. The police called at one o'clock In the morning of March 11 and demanded to see Miss M. Brooks. When told that there were two sisters they entered a bedroom and awakened both, who gave their namss. The inspector said: One of you must come to the police station. I have a warrant for Miss M. Brooks. I must take one of you; I don't care a damn which." After the plaintiff had given evidence alleging ill-treatment at Mountjoy, the Attorney-General read a letter written by her a day after she was transferred to Holloway, complaining of her removal sayipg: "At Mountjoy we had classes, saw the whole crowd and kept jolly. "Smiling, the plaintiff explained that she only meant she did not like the loneliness at Holloway, The case was adjourned.