South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-16
Tell of Finding Sir Roger
Easements Boat With
Dagger and ReVOIVerS
on Coast April n.
ACCUSED KEEPS BUSY
TAKING NOTES OF TRIAL
Titled Defendant Appears
Still Calm When Crown
Begins PiIing Up
Evidence.
Intcrnatlonal News Service.


LONDON, May ia sturdy
Irish peasant named John Mccarthy
who was responsible for the cap
ture Of Sir Roger Easement. the
reputed master mind in the recent
Sim Fem uprising in Dublin. was
the first witness today at the second
session Of the hearing of Easement
and Daniel Julian Bailey on the
charge OF high treason.
IL was Mccarthy who found the
boat in which Sir Roger and Bailey
had made their way ashore from the
German submarine U-19, in which
they had travelled from Germany TO
Ireland.
Wearing The same suit of tweeds
% yesterday Sir Roger appeared in
the dock at Bow ST. police court
with a bullying pad under his arm.
His glance travelled swiftly over the
crowded court room i'm which there
were a number of fashionably gown
ej women and then ne settled down
10 take notes of the proceedings
Discovered Boat.
Mccarthy, palpably embarrassed
by the lmelight into which he bad
been suddenly thrown, said that ne
was a farmer and that ne lived at
CUrrahanebeu Currahane, in county
Kerry, on the Irish coast.
In reply 10 questions by counsel
for the crown. be told of being upon
the Kerry beach at 4 o'clock on the
morning of Good Friday April q.
ard of seeing q boat washed ashore
Ivy the tide.
There was a dagger in the bot
tom of the boat" said Mccarthy.
Il could see the footprints of
three men in the sand They led
away from the boat and i'm the di-
rection of my home
Nearby a hole had been dug in
the beach and there / found "a tin
box mound round with a cord.
The witness thereupon identified
the dagger which was put in as an
exhibit
Mccarthy spent some time prowI-
ing around in the sand and found
three revolvers which he turned
over TO the police
Saw Light ON sea.
The next witness "a as Michael
Hussy. a neighbor OF Mccarthy S.
who said that on the Thursday night
before Good Friday he saw "a dark
red light out ON the sea.
The next morning ] looked out to
sea and saw a boat where the light
had been" said Hussy
A typical Irish farm maid. buNom.
rCd-cheeked and blue-eyed. was the
next witness. She was Mary Cor
man She told of seeing three men
pass the farm gate OF her home
about 4 O'Clock on Good Friday
morning.
DO YOU see one of those men I'M
court now ?" the witness was asked
Yes" she replied. and then she
pointed a dramatic finger at Case
ment Sir Roger bent his head and
wrote industriously ON his pad.
The witness failed 90 identify
Bailey as one Of the three men.
Describes Capture.
The capture Of Easement was thus
described t- Sergt. Hearn of the
constabulary.
We came upon the prisoner in
the old fort tNcKinna's foru. We
asked him his name and ne replied
Richard Morton OF Denham Bucks
We asked him what his occupation
vas and ne answered I'm an au-
thor. I wrote the life of S. Bren-
dan Easements trousers we're wet
- though he had been i'm the water.
When he WAS searched papers
bearing writing in a foreign lam
guage were found"
Hearn then told Of opening the
TN box found by Mccarthy. Do con-
tained 600 rounds OF pistol amnuni-
tor which had been carried from
Germany 90 Ireland by submarine.
Constable Reilly. who vas one Of
TIE party who arrested Easement.
gave this account OF n.
81 searched The prisoner and the
articles that I found were turned
over 90 the police at Tralec. Case
ment was taken there from the fort.
charged with being concerned in ae
(CONTINIr SD tN pAfsE ErlTru