IRISH AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1923, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION. O’BRIEN’S ARREST. (Received this day at 9.45 u.m.) LONDON, May 17 O’Brien had six minutes’ freedom. When discharged, he kissed his sister and shook hands with tho Governor of Brixton Gaol. O’Brien told a pressman that he wanted to go into the country to see his mother and have a long tost. Meanwhile the police shouldered a way for O’Brien and his sister through the crowd. - Congratulatory friends, some of whom were women, tried to kiss O’Brien. Another seized his hand and pressed it to her lips. Finally O’Brien and his sister reached a motor car. As they did so the signal was given to a number of plain clothes detectives, who ran towards the car. As it began to move, a detective jumped on hoard, opened the car door and disappeared inside. Two others called on the driver to stop. The driver, taken by surprise, was unable to make up his mind. Meanwhile inside, O’Brien indignantly remonstrated with the detective. The sister sat back dazed. The driver was persuaded to go to Bow Street, where the iron gate again closed on O’Brien. In Court counsel for the Crown said some serious evidence would be brought against O’Brien which had been discovered in documents in O’Brien’s possession, when arrested for deportation. Counsel added it was,highly probable to-day’s proceedings would have been taken before, if O’Brien had not been deported.