The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-15

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 Not in many years has so much popular interest been manifested in a case before the courts. This is due not only to the prominence of Case ment and to speculation as to his ul- tinaate fate. but also because it has been expected evidence would be pro
 dtlced which would lay bare a wide spread plot resulting in the revolt
 Long before the hour set for the hearing, crowds began to gather out side the Bow street court hoping to gain adrnittance or at least to have a glimpse of the man alleged to have been the moving spirit in the con spiracy.
 There was an unexpected number of applications for seats in the little courtroom, but admission was restrict ed to about 100 persons, including representatives of the press Among the earliest arrivals in the court was Sir Horace Plunkett, of theA depart ment of agriculture in Ireland He took a seat near the magistrate. It was understood Sir Horace was
 merely a spectator and would take no part in the days proceedings
 number of relatives and fr1enos of Easement, including several hand soaneIy gowned women, also reached court at an early hour and were pro vfded with seats well to the front The 6fAJZE was led into the court Sir John Dick snson. who presided, the lawyers and tFe witnesses all having taken their places beforeS Easement arrived at 1O:40 o'clock and entered the dock. There was hush of expectancy as ne entered the room and every lace was turned in his direction.
 The few spectators who were per 1nitted to enter the famous old police court were considerably surprised when the seond prisoner. Bailey was ulaeed beside Easement in the dock- Tailev a. private soldier whose horne is at Wembley, a village near London, was arrested near Frailee, Ireland, on lADriT 12 He was jointly charged with Easement with high treason but ms exact connection with the sim Feln- ers has mot. so far, been made public. T-, tl,es 4orrnaI charge, Easement is de- scribed as of no occupation ana no fixed abode The charge against both defendants reads:
 Tor that they did between the first day of November, 1914, and on ofvers other occasions between that day and the 21st of April, 1916, unlawfuny, ma liciously and traitorous1y commit h1gn treason within and without the realm of England in contempt of our soVer- efen lord and king and his laws, to the evil example of others n hke case and contrary to the duty and alle- iefance of the defendants.''
 Easement is alleged to have made a. long statement to the authorities and fit is believed that this statement will considerably shorten the hearing be- hearing is merely a preliminary to the real trial which will take place later before a panel of the judges Of the high court of justice
 Attorney General Sir Frederick E. smith. A. H. Bodkin and Travers Humphreys appeared for the prosecu- ton and J. H. Morgan and Artem11s Ward for the defendants.
 Sir John Dickinson presided. Short 1y after the magistrate had taken his seat Easement and his Fellow prison CTS were shown into the dock Case Inent's appearance was vastly differ ent from that of the man who gained fame by his exposure of the cruelties practiced on natives in Putumayo by a British rubber company. He sat in the dock, resting his chin on his hand and occasionally looking towards the magistrate.
 When the attorney general. in open ing the case for the prosecution, men toned the conferring of the order of 'knigthood on Basement, the prisoner dropped his head. The attorney gen- eraI then outlined the prisoners ca -reer
 In opening the case for the Crown the attorney-genera1 charged that Easement had cOnQucted a sySIennaIic campaign among the Irish prisoners in Germany with the purpose of se- ducing them from their allegiance. Bailey, he said, had been seduced in this manner and had made state ment explaining Easements actions in detail. According to the attorney general. Bailey was born in Dublin and joined the Royal Irish Rifles in 1904. He served with his regiment in India and was honorab1y discharged. On the outbreak of the European war Bailey was called out a reservist and sailed with the original expedi- tionary force to France. He was taken prisoner in September, e14.
 The attorney-genera1 said that Bailey had detailed how a large num- Der of Irish prisoners had been, col 7ected from, various prisons in Ger many and placed in large camp at L.imburg- Here they heard addresses by Csement. who tried to inf1ame their | minds against the British government l and persuade them to break their 1 oaths of allegiance and support him | Ca his projected expedition to Ireland. |
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