Prosecutive report + Buffalo clips · p.87

FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
U.S. Transfers
BEM
Irish Alien
To Canada
By MARGARET HAMMERSLEY
Bail of l0,000 was postedin
.Federal Court Tuesday for a Sinn
Fein magazine editor arrested Feb.
6 with four other Irish-born men at
the Whirlpool Bridge.
Edward Howel, 36, of Belfast
was handed over to the U.s. Immi-
gration and Naturalization Service
and transferred to Canadian fmmi-
gration authorities during the after-
noon..
Canadian authorities took Howell
fto a detention center in Hamilton,
Ont., where be was being held
today, because his Canadian visa
'expired on Feb. 16.
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The si0,o00 in cash was present-
:insurance broker from East Aurora,
and Eamionn and Pattie Byrneof
174 Lockwood Ave. They said many
persons had contributed.
Mr. Maguire said be had visited
Ireland several times and observed
the poverty of Catholics in Northern
.Ireland. The Byrnes are natives of
the Irish Republic. Mr. Byrne, a re
Stired truck‘driver,has become a
U.S. citizen, but 'Mrs. Byrne re-
pmains an Irish national. .
· Howell has been indicted by 'a
, federal grand jury on charges of
entering the United States by
.presenting a passport that belonged
to another man.
U.S: Magistrate Edmund F.
Maxwell directed that he return for
trial and 'warned that persons who
contributed to his bail will lose
.their money if he does not.
Howell's co-defendant, Desmond
Ellis,27,of Dublin,remains jailed
on the illegal-entry felony charge
and will not post bail. His attorney,
Robert M. Murphy, has said he will
seek political asylum for Ellis,de
scribedby theImmigration Seryice
as abail jumper wanted in Dublin
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