New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-17

people stood in line around Bow Street
police station waiting for the resump-
ton Of the trial.
The little courtroom was crowded
within five minutes after the doors
were opened, and many hundreds OF
men and women were unable TO obtain
admission. Superintendent Quinn OF
Scotland Yard. who is in charge Of the
police arrangements. voiced the popu-
lar feeling about the hearing when he
said:
81 have followed every notable case
that Bow Street has known in many
wears, but the court has never been the
scene of an examination so full OF
dramatic interest as the present one.
The tense state of public feeling due TO
the war has, of course, been a factor,
but the case in itself has features
which raise il far above the level OF
any criminal hearing in my memory.
The first witness was Mary German,
a typical Irish girl, who was the hrst
10 identify Easement as one of the men
who landed from the German subma-
rine at Tralee. She testified she saw
early Good Friday morning.
She was asked by A. H. Bodkin, for
the prosecution, whether she could
identify any of the three men. She re-
Piled, ayes, sir" and pointed to Case
ment. The prisoner bowed his head
and scrubbed more diligently than ever
on the pad Of paper.
Find Arms on Shore
John Mccarthy, farmer, of Curra-
hane, County Kerry, told Of finding the
collapsible boat in which Easement,
Bailey and a man named Montieth, who
is still at large, landed at Tralee. Nc
Carthy said he pulled it ashore and
found a dagger and tin box. On has
way home he met his children, who
were playing with three revolvers they
had found close 10 the shore.
Other witnesses from the same dis
trict told Of having seen signal lights
at sea on the evening before Good
Friday.
A touch Of humor was added when
Mary German told her story Of meet
ing Easement and his two companions
leaving the beach. She talked in a
brogue so broad that il was found
necessary TO ask her TO write the words
before they could be understood. Al
ter identifying Easement she told how
she had seen him later in the day in
the custody of a constable. She did
not recognize Bailey.
At this point the Attorney General,
Sir Frederick Smith, took hand In the
proceedings. He conducted the exam
Ination OF Sergeant John Hearne, of
the Royal Irish Constabulary, who was
summoned by Mccarthy when he found
the boat. 1t was Sergeant Hearne who
arrested Easement near Tralee.
The sergeant said that, accompanied
BY Sergeant Riley, he searched the
country round, and at length found in
the old fort "a man, the prisoner in the
dock-the tall man, Easement" The
sergeant continued:
az asked him who he was. He said
his name was Richard Morton, that his
home was at Denham Bucks, that he
was an author, and that he had written
book on the life of St. Brendan."
Hearne asked the prisoner whence he
had come. and he replied Dublin. To
further question he said he had no
passport.
Boy Tells Of Landing.
Artemus Jones, Of counsel for the
defence, asked Hesrne whether he had
seen Sergeant Riley take from Case
ment document giving an account OF
his movements in Germany. Hesrne
replied: mo, but there was a small
paper, written in a foreign language,
that was taken from Easement"
In the cross-examination of Hesrne
Il was disclosed that Easement had OBJ
jected strongly to being questioned,
and did not submit until one of the
eonstables leveled rife at him. On
the way 10 a station he dropped roll
of papers, which the police recovered.
The star witness, from the stand
point OF human interest, was Martin
Collins, a farmers lad Of twelve years.
Martin, handsome little chap, with
rich Irish brogue, told with evident
pride how he had driven Easement and
q constable for several miles when the
prisoner was being taken to headquar-
ters. Much Of the time he was testify
ing the boy kept his eyes on Case
ment, and there was no hesitation on
his part as he declared the man in the
dock was the one ne had driven in his
cart