The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-26
BASEMENT JURY
 BOX IS FILLED
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points that returned against Colonel Arthur Lynch, who fought agianst~ the British in the Boer. When asked II he was guilty or not guilty, Sir Roger bowed and murmured inaud1bIy. Ills chief counsel, Alexander Sullivan, or Dublin, arose and argued that the 1n- dictment set forth was "no offense known to the law'' and that none of the acts specified was alleged to have taken place in any territory over which the King has any Jurisdiction. After consultation the court ruled that any exceptions to the indictment in a case of such importance could be taken after the hearing without pre- judice to the prisoner. Then Sir Roger made a formal plea of not guilty, speaking in firm tones.
 Jurors from the panel were called forward. The prisoners counsel ob- jected to the first who wore on his coat sleeve the khaki band of men at- tested for the army and waiting to be called up.
 Several peremptory challenges were made by both sides. Another tales~ man with a. khaki band was excused because he had been called to the army for July 8.
 After Il jurors had been seated in the box there was great difficulty in dnding the twelfth. The defense cha1- lenged flor cause' more than a dozen in succession. At 11:10 o'cIockF the jury was completed. Each juror took the oath separately ''to true deliver ance make between our Sovereign Lord, the King, and the prisoner at the bar.''
 The jury is practically composed of midd1e-aged men, apparently of the small merchant and clerk class. Sam uel Saunders, being a Jew, took the oath with hit hat on, but had to re- T@ H., -o1<7 1 his left hand instead of his right. The jury was sworn three-quarters of an hour after the court sat.
 The court was cleared of talesmen and the attorney general, Sir Freder- ick Smith, made the opening address offense of high treason and said the jury would have to decide whether there were any extenuating circum- stances or whether the offense was an aggravated one against the sovereign he formerly served and the country against which he struck"
 Reviewing the public career Of Sir Roger, the attorney general said he was "an able,, cultivated man, not, as others had been, lifelong rebel against England and that for which she stands It would be necessary to
 refer to Sir Rogers pension, which
 had been earned honestly, the attor- ney general said, except for the sinis- ter activities the prisoner thought compatible with the receipt of a pen
 sion from this country.
 Sir Roger Easement has been in iaiI | since April 25. when he was captured 1 on the west coast of Ireland after 1 having been landed from German
 steamer which was attempting to land a cargo of arms in Ireland for the projected revolution. The steamer was blown up by it's crew when they found that it's capture by British patrol boat was inevitable.
 Up to a year before the war broke 1 out, Easement had been in the British consular service in which he served g total of eighteen years. He attained | wide celebrity for his exposure o1 l the atrocities in the rubber fields o1 Brazil and the Congo. Shortly afte1 | the outbreak of the war, Easement ! went to Berlin, where he opened ne. gotiations for aid for an Irish re. 1 bellion. On his arraignment before l a magistrate following his capture
 Irish prisoners of war who had beer exchanged, offered to persuade cap tured soldiers to join a revolutionary
 force which was to be dispatched tc 1 Ireland.
 The Sim Fein revolt broke out 1T Dublin the day before the capture O.
 fighting, principally in Dublin ir
 which several hundred people were killed and a large portion of the bus mess section of the Irish capital wa. reduced to ashes by artillery. Nearl, | 8. score of ring leaders were summar
 fly executed by courtmartial fouowinf
 the crushing of the revolt. More thar
 one thousand of the rank and file O. 1 the rebels were transported to Eng | fish jails, where large numbers ar, still held, many under long term sen | tences.