Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-06-26
SIR ROGER GOES.
TO TRIAL, CHARGE.
4AT Of TRAITOR
6Og0oL LuDvne CHAPTER OF HssT0RC
OF inlsm REVOLT EXPECTED TO
BE WRITTEN IN TRIAL.
ENGLISH COURT FOR FIRST TIME IN
moOERm HISTORY CALLED ON TO
TINY TREASON CASE.

(By Associat.c rreasS
LONDON, June 26.-Sir Roger Case
ment chief conspirator in the Sinn Fcin
revolt. went to trial for his pie on .
chsrre Of high treason in the high co"r'
of ;usttp II was not known WHAT the
defense will be. The Easement family
has retained Francis r. N"sle of Phii-
adclphia, as counsel.
The prisoner was pale ~ 'n'er'hI
court Sir Roger bowed to n" Jns'iee
and Lord Reading CHIEF justice. return
e1 the sa,utation with c'l"al forma'iN'
The prisoncr stnod leaning on the iron
railing with foIslsm arms while the c'erh
read the long Indictment
when asked IL 10 was guilty ne
priso,,cr muriIturcd scm"fh''g '';'"'''-
HE His counsel then arc'"i ma '''
Indictment set forth mo .'"''.>c ''"wh
- laws and thai non. AZ the ac'> ~
:crrl tool. Place Ia IN f.;'' ~ VI
n. l NO had iurisslic1-'" '"' ""'''
~ ,,.: exceptions must H. u a''c ai'cr u
tsa ing. without prc;i''~c 10 80
prisoner.
Sir Roger then in firm. tnncs, eh'r'ed
n formal plea of not "a'ii:.
LONDON. June 26.-The writing q "ia,
Is expccted to the concluding chapter 81
the history Of the Inflated Sinn rem e'' 'e.
he,l;on was begun in the High Court "i
f,~t;cc today when Sir Roger Easement
kniyhtcd in 1911 for serviees 70 the br'ts'
c,vrrment. was arraigned for trial on IN
chnrge of high treason. ...
Rarely .u modern times has courf con i
yened in England to try So rrave crme
As kiTlI treason This. c6H1hcd with the
nromina,ca.of lhe. sccnsed apd tn sensaT
t;onnl ckcnfS tading up 10 his Indictment
haa served to rivet the attention Of the en-
tir. nation On the solemn court proceed
inrs that .mnx lead TO- his copsic'aon and
sentence 10 death. .safgH M
Baron Reading, the Lord Chief Justice,
- 10 direct the crown's ease against Sir
Roger. "a galaxy y Of emincn' attorneys
has been retained io look after the inter.
csts of the defense The list = headed by
Michal Francis DOYLE of Philadelphia.
Other legal lights retained to assist IN the
defense Of the accused barouct are Alex
nudcr Sullivan of Dublin and Prof y. "
Morgnn. who assisted at the preliminary
hearing
Easements astounding career follows:
In time when the commonplaces OF
che dav's news are sensational. an event
has to he unusually dramatic to ~tartIc 'hc
news reading world. But that world was
startled. on the morning of April %. by
the news that Sir Roger Easement. man
hearing the order az British knighthocd.
who had distinguished himself bv two sc-
markable humanitarian cxpioits of modern
times. had been capturcd from 4 German
blockade runner. off the Irish coast. ia
The attempt to join an uprising IN ireland.
Roger Easement was born ~ Dublin. in
1854. and came of patriotic I,iSh rarcn-
sagc. III schooling was received in Ire
land and England. In 1854 he went to
Africa. which was 10 5c the scene Of hi
first great labor. and spent five years IN
the Congo, hunting and shooting and help
inc tc lay the foundations OF the Congo
State. Il was in 1902 that he finally en-
tered the British Office service in The
Niger Coast Protcctoratc. where he re-
maiaed until 1895. ETe was then appoint
ID consul at Dclnria Bay. in Southeastern
Africa. and filled that posi- until 1898. IT.
that seAr he was appointed consul TO shs
E"ngo Free State. where he remained unit
1ool
u WAS during his erviceS ~ consul that
Easement undertook a personal invcsfiya-
t'on Of the atrocities allc.ed tn he prac-
used on the antive~ bv the Belgian com
pan'es rnesecd in exploiting the natural
wealth ef The Congo. II. srcnf several
morths iovrnrv;~~ ,hnssi The Congo rcrior
IN bis task. His report to the British
Goverrmmh asou<al storm Of indiyra-
hon shrpyRteso sthp civilized world. Ths