Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1916-08-03

LONDON AUG. 2. 2.~tl0:47 y. M,
Sir Roger Easement will be executed
in the Pentonville prison At 3 o'clock
tomorrow for high treason Lord
Robert Cecil, minister Of war trade.
today made known to the Associated
Press that IT was the British govern.
ment's determination not to reprievu
Sir Roger.
Beyond the statement OF Lord
Roberts. which was in defense OF tho
governments determination, no for.
nal announcement to the effect that
the execution will be carried out 10.
morrow has been made public. Off.
cials intimated to the Associated
Press. however, that this was quite
the usual procedure, ny sentence
on convict carries with 1t the natur.
al supposition OF execution, the only
occasion for an official announcement
being the granting Of reprieye or \
communication OF sentence.
While the government maintained
silence as to the final efforts made
oil behalf of Sir Roger, It IL known
that petitions were received az late
AZ today. The foreign sffice says no
communication has been received
from the state department at Wash.
ington requesting a reprieve.
The whole subject surrounding Sir
Rogers case has been seriously con.
sidered by the cabinet and the deter
mination to let the law take its course
proved unalterabe. The decision OF
the government will cause some sur
prise, ns the opinion had become
widespread that the sentence OF Sir
Roger would be cOmmuted at the
last moment to life Imprisonment.
Honored with knighthood n title
since taken from him by King Georges
order-@for his many years or service
for Great Britain AS consul and consul
general, Roger Easement assumed
leadership, at Il period of his country's
! crisis, In the recent Irish rebellion. the
plans for which were laid while Case
ment was in Berlin, where he was re-
ported to have negotiated an under
standing with the German imperial au-
thorities.
British naval supremacy brought al
abortive close to Easements plans.
The German tramp steamship on
which there was transported an armed
expedition from Germany nearly to
the west coast OF ireland in April Of
this year was blown up by its own
crew when the latter foresaw that ii
was inevitable that the bockadins
English warships would capure 1t. The
crew were made prisoners. The tramp
had been conveyed from Kiel by a
German submarine. from which Case
ment and u companion landed on Irish
soil, where they were taken into GUS
tody before their plans matured.
| In May, Easement was given pre-
liminary hearing and was committed
for trial on the charge Of high treason.
Late in June the trial was begun, Case
ment pleading not guilty and uttering
denial that he had worked in Ger
many's inerests and that he had ac-
| NCpica German gold as a brihc.
The courts verdict was guilty, and
the sentence OF death by hanging was,
after appeal by his counsel, confirmed
by the court of criminal appeal, late
in July.
The London press generally ap-
proved the fate legally fixed for Case
ment but in America persistent efforts
we're made to save the noted prisoner
from death.
In Washington resolution was
adopted in the senate requesting Pres
ident Wilson to transmit to the British
government an expression of hope that
it would exercise clemency in the case
OF all the Irish political prisoners.
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