The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-30
Verdict Is Returned After Deliberation of Less Than an Hour-Case to Be
 Appealed to Lords
KNIGHT RECEIVES SENTENCE WITH THE
 UTMOST COMPOSURE
Bailey Freed on Request of Government = Easement Pleads for Right to Be
 Tried by an Irish Jury

London, June 2s-viscount Reading, lord chief justice of England, with the black cloth, by tradition called a cap spread over his head, and his two assistants in scarlet gowns. likewise blackcapped, pronounced the sentence of death for high treason on the Irishman. o'clock this afternoon. half an hour after the foreman of the jury in speaking voice gave the verdict of guilty.
 Sir Roger was found guilty of high trea- son. The ending of the historic trial came shortly before o'clock this afternoon, when the jury which had been out less than an hour brought in it's verdict against the Irish knight.
 Today's session of the court was given over to arguments of counsel and the charge to the jury. Sir Rogers chief counsel, Alexander Sullivan, who col lapsed in court yesterday, was unable to appear today and his argument was taken up by Artemus Jones, assistant counsel for the defense.
 The attorney general, Sir Frederick smith, summed up the case for the prose- cution, after which the lord chief justice delivered his charge.
 BASEMENT READS STATEMENT
 After the verdict had been returned, Sir Roger began to read very long statement. Sir Roger received the sem tence with the utmost composure, smiling at his friends in the courtroom. His state ment was plea for the right to be tried by Irishmen and for Irish nationality. Bailey was discharged.
 It was announced later that the crown had withdrawn the charge against Bailey.
 The attorney general announced that Bailey had affirmed he joined the Irish brigade with the object of returning to his country and rejoining the army. Under the circumstances no evidence would be produced against him. Michael Francis Doyle of Philadelphia of counsel for Sir Roger, gave the follow ing statement tonight to the Associated Press
 'The verdict, though regrettable to us, was not surprise. We will take an inn mediate appeal to the criminal court of appeals and then to the House of Lords if necessary because we feel that the point of law involving a statute 800 years old under which Sir Roger was tried never has been legally tested.''
 READS FINAL STATEMENT Sir Roger Easement addressed the court reading his final statement with the explanation that he wished it might reach larger audience than the one before him, and particularly the people of America, from whom had come many messages of sympathy and whose own struggle for liberty, he said, always had k been an inspiration to Irishmen Sir Rogers auditors, among whom were tViscount Bryce and many other promi- nent men and women, listened in deep est silence, some moved to tears. 1 The prisoner declared he did not re- gard trial by Englishmen in an English court as a trial by his peers to which he was entitled He reviewed recent events in Ireland, particularly on the formation of the Ulster volunteers, and said: "We have seen the constitutional army refuse to obey the constitutional government and we were told the first
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