The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16
Irish Lad on Stand Tells of Driving Easement Through Country As. Prisoner Defendant. Weeps As He Pens Statement During the Boys Testimony.
Arrested at Point of. Rifle, Testifies Soldier. Another ThrOng Jams Little COurtrOO1nI in LOndOn-BaiIey isl Calm During Court Ordeal.

Ordeal.
 London, May 16-Sir Roger Easement wept in court todayj during the second session of hisI trial for high treason.
 As a ruddy-faced Irish lad, Martin Collins, aged 12 years, told with pride of driving Case-i ment prisoner through the4 countryside, the defendant bel gan writing a statement. What he wrote was not known, butt he wept quietly as his peni scratched over the paper.
 The morning session was de- voted to the examination of witnesses who identified Case-i ment as the man arrested5 near Tralee after the Iandingf of the German submarine.
 Large crowds of people were in line early around Bow street police station, waiting for the re-opening of the trial The little courtroom was crowded within five minutes after the doors were opened and many hun dreds of men and women were unabIe, to obtain adnisslon. S6p perintender Quinn. of Scotland Yard, who is in charge of the police arran gem ents, voiced the popular feeling about the hearing when he said:
 "I have followed every notable case that Bow street has known in many
 
 the scene of any examination so full of dramatic interest as the present one The tense state of public feel ing due to the war has, of courses been a factor, but the case in itself has features which raise it far above the level of any criminal hearing tDl my memory
 There was some speculation today as to whether Easements lawyers would place him on the stand at this preliminary hearing. It is generally believed that this will not be done. His lawyers refuse to state whether they will consider such a step or not. ]
 The first witness of the day was Mary German, a typical Irish girl, 1 who was the first witness to identify { Easement as one of the men who l landed from the German submarine at Tra1ee. She testified she saw three 1 men passing a farmyard gate early Good Friday morning.
 She was asked by A. H. Bodkins for the prosecution, whether she could identify any of the three men, l She replied:
 .sYes, sir.' and pointed to Case me11t The prisoner bowed his head and scrtbbled diligently on a pad of paper.
 Among the spectators were Michael F1avin, Nationalist member of the House of Commons, whose home is at TraIee, and number of friends of Easement, including several women Easement appeared to be entirely at ease and smiled cneerfully Rs he took his place in the dock. Daniel J. Bailey, who is accused jointly with Easement, apparently, was more com l posed than he was yesterday
 As the first witness took the stand, ] Easement began to make voluninous notes. The testimony in the early part of today's session had to do with 1 events which the two prisoners are ! charged with having played a part after their landing at Tralee, whereas the evidence given yesterday dealt all most entirely with operations of Case ment and Bailey in Germany
 Miss German told the story of meet ing Easement and his two companions on the beach after they landed from i the submarine B
 She talked in a brogue so broad that it was found necessary to ask her to write the words before they could be understood : This she did srnil- ingly. After identifying Easement, 1 she told how she had seen him later in the day in the custody of a con stable She did not recognize Bailey.
 At this point the attorney general, Sir Frederick Smith, took a hand in the proceedings. He conducted the examination of Sergeant J ohm Hearne, of the Royal Irish constabulary, who was summoned by Mccarthy when he found the boat. It was Sergeant Hearne who arrested Easement near Tralee.
 The sergeant said, that, accompa- uied by Sergeant Reilly he searched | the country round and at length found in the old fort "a man, the prisoner ! In the dock-the tall man, Casement-'' % | The sergeant continued:
 ''I asked him who he was. Ho said his name was Richard Morton, that his home was at Denham Bucks that he was an author and that he had written a book on the life of Saint Brendan."
 Hearne asked the prisoner whence he had come and he replied Dublin. To further question he said he had
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