New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-08
Georgina Markievicz'S
Sentence COMMITTED TO
Life Servitude.
LENIENCY SHOWN
TO TWO PLUNkETTS
At Least 100 Civilians Known 10
Have Been Killed in the
Dublin Fighting.

Dublin, May 7.--Countess Georgina
Markieviez, one Of the prominent fig
ures in the Irish revolt, was sentenced
to death after her trial by court mar
tial, but the sentence has been com
muted 70 penal servitude for life, II
was officially announced this afternoon.
The death sentence on Henry O'Hanra-
han was also committed 10 life term.
Death sentences imposed on George
Plunkett and John Plunkett, brothers
of Joseph Plunkett. who was executed
last week. have been committed TO ten
years penal servitude.
It is reported here that Lewis Har-
court, First Commissioner Of Works,
has been appointed to succeed Angus
tine Birrell as Chief Secretary for
Ireland.
A party Of about 1000 prisoners left
Dublin last night for England. They
were mostly from country districts:
This is the last day under General
Maxwells order for the Sim Feiners
and Irish Volunteers TO hand IN their
arms and 6mmunlIOn. $500 d,
Rebels who are shot are blindfolded
when called upon TO face the firing
party. One or two, however. have de-
manded the privilege Of going to their
death with open eyes, and 1t is usdeT-
stood that the request has been granted
Yesterday was tho anniversary OF
the assassination Of Lord Frederick
Cavendish. Chief Secretary for Ireland,
and Thomas II. Burke, Under Secretary,
in Phnnix Park, on May 6. 1882.
No official figures have yet been is
sued on the deaths Of civilians in the
recent revolt, but 100 already have
been accounted for-ll2 men, twenty
women and twenty-eight unldentlhed.
The list is still incomplete, because II
is known that many Of the dead have
not been registered in any place open
TO public inspection.
Fiftv of the victims were buried in
p Glasnevin Cemetery yesterday and
thirty-one others in Mount Jerome
Cemetery. Certificates of death from
gunshot wounds in $50 cases have been
issued.
Owing 10 the shortage Of labor, the
bodies in many instances were buried
without collins. Pathetic scenes are wit
messed hourly at the cemeteries. At
Mount Jerome at times burials proceed
ed under a crossfre from soldiers at
Portobello Barracks and the rebels on
Rialto Bridge. -.
There Is still possibility of addi-
tional bodies lying under the debris OF
destroved buildings and other uneX-
SDored places, for reports OF persons person.
= missing are coming from every district.
The question of compensation Tor
losses sustained by traders during the
revolt is causing much heartburping
Under the British law the government
is not liable for such losses in Ireland
or Scotland, but a strong feeling pre-
walls that the government ought TO
make an exception in this case and
formulate q scheme Of compensation.
Call on Government to Pay.
The council Of the Dublin Chamber
Of Commerce adopted the following
resolution:
"The council desire TO place on rec
ord their considered opinion that out
breaks would have been impossible but
for the gross and objectionable laxlty,
long continued. Of the administration
of the Irish government. The council
therefore consider that the funds
necessary for restoring the buildlngs
and property Of unoffending citizens
destroyed IN the rebellion should be
0roNlQeQ bN lnt iHptAioi A'NNNN-'
without delay"
Meetings Of other business corpora
tions and municipal bodies have been
convened for a similar purpose.
Count Plunkett George Noble
Plunkett) and his wife have been ar
rested. Count Plulkett's title is papal
one. He has been for several years dl-
rector of the National Museum Of Sci
ence and Art in Dublin. His wife Is a
woman Of independent means. Both
have been prominent IN philanthropic
work. art and literature.
The Count, whose son. Joseph, was
executed last week, is also the father
OF George and John Plunkett. who were
condemned to death for connection with
the revolt. but whose sentences have
been committed TO ten years penal
servitude. He is vice-president Of the
American Irish Historical Society OF
New York; vce-president of the Ma
tional Literary Society Of Ireland, and
of the international Art Congress;
president of the Society for the Preser-
walton Of the Irish Language, and rep
resentative Of the Royal Irish Acad-
envy on the Nobel Prize Committee for