New Britain herald., 1916-08-03
UNMOVED AS HE
 WALKS TO FAI
Touching Scene As Gatf| ing of Men and Worl from Ireland Drop to TE| Knees When Single Str| of Bell Announces Lea
 Has Expiated His Offei

London, Aug. 3, 1O:O7 a. mi # Easement, former British knight consul, was hanged at 9 o'clock in Pentonville jail, for W treason. Easement was convicte conspiring to cause an armed rev Ireland and with having sought # man aid to that end.
 Two hours before the executi crowd of men, women and chiM M gathered before the prison M Twenty minutes before Case8 mounted the scaffold the great p bell commenced to toll. The was greeted with cheers from M crowd, mingled with some gr# At o'clock the crowd had swx to such proportions that it exte for two blocks from the prison % At one minute ofter nine a az stroke of the big bell announced the trap had been sprung. It wak signal for a mocking, jeering yell K tke crowd which suddenly died in dead silence.
 Easement met his death with courage, according to eye witnS Early in the morning two priesH the Roman Catholic church adnS tered the last rites in the cell oH condemned man and shortly aftera a little procession headed by clergymen with Easement followiH warden on either side, procd toward the execution shed, onlyI yards away. The priests recited litany of the dying, Easement resI5 ing in low tones: Lord have na on my soul"
 As the party reached the where the gallows was erectetd3 special executioner, a hair dr5 named Ellis, approached Casea and quickly pinioned him. TheH chaplains, the under-sheriff of don and the under-sheriff of Mi H sex then took up their position front of the scaffold. Case mounted the gaIlows steps firmly commended his spirit to God "A stepped on the trap. A mom later the lever was pulled.
 Immediately after the trap N sprung the prison surgeon & physician descended into the K where, after the application of usual tests, Easement was pronou dead at 9:O9 o'clock. Accordin# the custom in tho case Of prlsd hanged far crimes similar to tn Easement, his body will be burte e quick lime in the prison yard, probably no decision as to the will be made until after the inq&
 Men and Women Knccl in Pray
 An affecting incident took outside the prison wall as the ez ticn was in progress. At the pad the prison. a little distance from 7eering crowd about the gates, eroup of about thirty Irish men woman. When the dull clang o1 orison bell announced that doomed man had paid the last pei this little group fell on their and with bowed heads remained some moments silently praying fo repose of the soul of their # .ellow ceuntryman.
  hree notices were posted on prison door. The first, signed by2 of London, the gove if the prison and Father James Tarrell, Easements confessor, re8
 Judgment of death was this executed on Roger David Casemer lis majesty's prison of Pentonvil ,ur presence"
 A similar notice was signed by & of Middlesex cou The third bore the name of Iander, the prison surgeon, who E. flied that he had examined the N nd found Easement dead. 3
 Ellis, the eXecutioner, arrived in # prison early last evening and imn@ @ tely made his preparations xamined the trap door in the ex H ion shed and tested it thoroughly M
 bag exactly the same weight N 'asement Ellis remained in rison all night. M
 Easement showed not the sligI s oncern over his fate. He ate nd chatted freely and cheerily wo warders in his condemned M After a hearty late supper he dive# .imself for the last time of his con lothes and went to bed He M ctified that he would be allowed year his own civilian clothes for # xecution though he would not be & litted to wear a collar. M
 Died for His Country.
 All the members of Caseme&