Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-04
Irish RingleGders Are
Being Tried With Rapidity;
Fighting in Some Districts
By Associated Press

Dublin, May 3.-Justice has been
swift in the case of the leaders of the
Sim Fein rebellion. Three of the
ringleaders, signatories of the procla-
nation of the short lived Irish repub-
lie, paid the supreme sacrifice this
morning. They were Patrick H.
Pearse, the scholarly president of the
provisional government; Thomas Mac
Donagh and Thomas j. Clark. Their
death sentences were pronounced by
the field general court-martial and
were duly confirmed by the highest
authorities. OF the other signatories,
James Connolly Is lying in prison
Eamonn Ceannt and Joseph Plunkett
are somewhere in Ireland, whether
free or captured is not publicly known
Justice is Swift
The other ringleaders in custody in
Ireland are now being tried. with great
rapidity by the central court-martial
while the local courts-martial are deal
ing with minor rebels in various dis
tricts. The Associated Press corre-
spondent saw a batch of the prisoners
leaving one of the courts after being
sentenced. Some of them spoke to the
members of their escort as they
marched away, and unless their CHEEKY
appearance was forced, they evidently
had escaped with more lenient punish
general public was not aware of the
execution of the ringleaders until late
this evening, and it was not possible to
observe the effect of their punishment
upon the citizens of Dublin, who, how
ever, for the vastly greater part, were
not in sympathy with the rebellion.
Further captures of isolated snipers
occurred to-day in the outlying quar-
ters of the capital and orders were
issued by Major Sir John
Maxwell that any rebels found with
arms should be severely dealt with.
Very few shots have been heard in the
city since Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock,
when a government boat passing down
the Liffey river was fired upon and
sharp salvos from machine guns in the
vicinity of Rathmines caused people in
the neighborhood to be alarmed.
Mcneil Has Disappeared
Everybody is asking what has be-
come of John Mcneil, the local organ
izer of the Sim Feiners, who appears
to have disappeared from Dublin with
the firing of the first shot. Another
man in whose fate great interest is
manifested is The O'Reilly. 1T is now
reported that his body was found
among the debris of the general post
office.
Confidence is rapidly returning
among the civilian population, and
resumed, many stores have been re-
opened. The government requisitioned
all the food supplies in stock on its
arrival at the quays and ample food
was furnished to the poor people at
three depots opened at the northwest
ern quay, the shell factory and Rath-
mines.
From these stores food was supplied
to the shops at prices prevailing before
the rebellion on condition that they be
sold at similar rates.
Trouble i'm South and. West
South and west of Ireland are at
present the only places where disturb
ances are rife. and these are being
sharply suppressed. Some further
casualties are reported among the
troops. Though the young soldiers are
performing their duty under the Sc
Verest conditions of warfare, many of
them having had only a few months
training, they are displaying the
utmost bravery, never hesitating to adj
vance under the hottest fire. In sew
eraI parts of Ireland the Sim Fein
organization did not take part in the
outbreak, but, as they possess huge
quantities of arms and ammunition,
they are being closely watched. Or
ders were issued to-day demanding
that they Immediately surrender all
their arms. and in case these bodies of
illegal semisoldiers do not comply with
the order very effective steps are to
be taken against them by the military
authorities. who are aware that for
two years past Ireland has been turned
into a gigantic arsenal by persons who
had no right to possess arms.