Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-03
Calm and Cheerful AS He
Walks to Scaffold, Attend
ed By Priests.
IMMENSE CROWD
MOCKS AND CHEERS
Easement Pronounced Dead Nine
Minutes After Trap Was spruns-T
Die For My Country" Last Words
Preceding Praysr-Request of ReIa-
tivss That Body be Turned Over
to Them Refused.

Loadon. Aug. 3.-The body of Roger
David Easement, former knight and
consul of the British empire, later
leader in the Irish revolt, tried and
convicted OF high treason, and hanged
at a. m. today, may be buried in
quick lime in the Pentonville prison
yard, near the spot where other con-
victed traitors similarly were inferred.
Probably no decision as to burial will
be made until after the inquest, but
it was believed that the custom Of
quick lime burial. accorded the bodies
Of plotters against the GROWN, would
hold in the case Of the man, who up
honors both by his king and his fell
low subjects.
Notice Of Death Posted.
Immediately after the execution
three notices were posted on the prison
door. The first. signed by the under
sheriff of London. the governor Of the
prison and Father James McCarrell.
Easements confessor, read:
Judgment of death was this day ex-
ecuted on Roger David Easement IN his
majesty's prison OF Pentonville, in our
presence = ~
t "A. similar notice was signed by the
sheriff OF Middlesex county. The third
bore the name OF p. R. Mander the
prison surgeon, who certified that he
had examined the body and found
Easement dead.
Cheerful to Last.
Easement showed not the slightest
concern over his fate. He was cheerful
to the last.
TWO hours before the execution a
crowd of men, women and children
gathered before the prison gates.
Twenty minutes before Easement
mounted the scaffold, the great prison
bell began to toll. The sound was
greeted with cheers from the crowd.
mingled with some groans.
At 9 o'clozf the crowd extended two
blocks from the prison front. At one
minute after 9 a single stroke of tho
big bell announced that the trap had
been spruneS 1t was the signal for the
crowd to mdrk and cheer which sud-
denly died away to solemn silence.
~ rWCSSo SSUstt vvtsn SOuTdS0s
Easement met his death with calm
courage. Early in the morning two
priests administered the rites to the
condemned man. Shortly after little
procession, headed by the clergymen,
with Easement following, q warden
on either side. proceeded toward the
execution shed, only five yards away.
The priests recited the litany Of the
dying, Easement responding in low
tones:
Lord have mercy on my SOUL"
Immediately the trap was sprung,
the prison engineer and physician de-
seended into the pit. where Easement
was pronounced dead at nine minutes
after 3.
An Affecting Incident.
An affecting incident took place out
side the prison wall as the execution
was in progress. At the back Of the
prison, little distance from the jeer-
ing crowd, was a group Of about thir-
ty Irishmen and women. When the
dull clang Of the prison bell announced
that the doomed man had paid the
penalty this little group fell on their
knees and with bowed heads prayed
for the repose of the soul of their dead
countryman.
All the members Of Easements fam
lily were protestants but he was con-
verted to Roman Catholicism within
the last few weeks. He received his
this morning when he assisted at
mass in his cell. One of the attend
ants said his overpowering love for
Nd To- ~
Die For My Country"
According to this attendant the last
words OF the condemned man, apart
from his prayers, were:
Il die for my country"
Father McCarrell said that he found
Easement to be beautiful character.
The morning papers mostly deal in
the briefest and matter of fact way
with the execution. The only editorial
reference is in the News, which says:
I'VE can not but reaffirm our con-
yiction that the government showed
great usswisdom in exacting the death
penalty. The hanging gives the disaf-
fected section of Ireland another
martyr, embitters the feeling thruout
the island, alieniates large and inn
portant body of American opinion and
Enables Germany to play off the death
of Easement against the death Of
F'ryatt.'
Reiativss' Request Refused.
A coroner's jury found that the sem
tence HAD sess ssesss carried cut e
ance with the law and in humane
manner Gavin Duffy, Easements so-
licitor who appeared in behalf of rela-
r q