Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-08-04
y Mocking, Jeering Yell % Greets Announcement of
 Patriots Death.
IRISH PRAY AS
 TRAP IS SPRUNG
Government Refuses Request of Rela. ta
 stiyCs for Body, Which Is Buried in Quick Lime im pentonyiIle
 Prison Yard.

former British knight and consul, was hanged at 9 o'clock this morning in Pentonville jail for high treason. He was convicted of conspiring to cause an armed revolt in Ireland and with having sought German aid to that end.
 Two hours before the execution a crowd of men and children gathered before the prison gates. Twenty min utes before Easement mounted the scaffold the great prison bell com menced to toll. The toll was greeted with cheers, mingled with some groans. At 9 o'clock the crowd had swollen to such proportions that it ex- tended for two blocks from the prison front. At one minute after 9 o'clock a single stroke of the big bell an- nounced that the trap had been sprung. It was the signal for mock ing, jeering yell from the crowd, which suddenly died away into dead silence.
 Meets Death Courageously.
 Easement met his death with calm courage, according to eyewitnesses Earlier in the morning two priests. of the Roman Catholic church admin condemned man and shortly afterward
 
 clergymen, with Easement following, wander on either side, proceeded to- ward the execution platform, only seven yards away The priests recited the litany of the dying, Easement re- spending in low tones, "Lord, have mercy on my soul"
 As the party reached the spot where the gallows was erected the special executioner, hair dresser named Ellis, approached resolutely and quick ly pinioned him. The two chaplains, the under-sheriff of London and un- der-sheriff of MiddleseX, then took up their positions in front of the scaf fold. Easement mounted the gallows steps firmly and commended his spirit to God as he stepped on the trap. A moment later the lever was pulled.
 Body Buried in Lime.
 Immediately the trap was sprung the prison engineer and physician descended into the pit, where, after the application of the usual tests, Easement was pronounced dead at nine minutes after nine. According to the custom in the case of prisoners hanged for crimes similar to that of Easement, his body will be buried in quicklime in the prison yard.
 An affecting incident took place outside the prison wall as the execu. tion was in progress. At the back of the prison little distance from the jeering crowd at the gates was a group of about 30 Irish men and wom- en. When the dull clang of the prison bell announced that the doomed man had paid the last penalty this group fell on their knees and with bowed Ie fS silently praying for the repose of the
 Post Notices of Execution.
 Immediately after the execution three notices were posted on the prison door. The first, signed by the under sheriff of London, the governor of the prison and Father James McCarrell, . Easements >confessor, read:
 Sl Judgment of death was this day executed on Roger David Easement in His Majesty's prison of Pentonville in our presence"
 A similar notice was signed by the under-sheriff of Middlesex county and the third bore the signature of P. k. Mander, the prison surgeon, who certl- fled that he had examined the body and found Easement dead.
 Ellis, the executioner, arrived in the prison early last evening and imme diately made his preparations. He eex- amined the trap door in the execution shed and tested it thoroughly with bag exactly the same weight. as Case, ment. Ellis remained in the prison all night.
 Showed No Concern.
 Easement showed not the slightest concern over his fate. He ate we'll and --chatted freely and cheerily with two ,warders in his condemned cell. After a hearty late supper he divested him self for the last time of his convict clothes and went to bed. He was notl- fled that he would be allowed to wear his own civilian clothes for the execu- tion, though he would not be per nitted to wear collar.
 All the members of Easements fam fly were Protestants, and he was brought up in that faith, but he be-
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