The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-04

Wants Bailey Defended.
easement. recipient 81 k~righthood ard
& entities. n gentleman nv birth ami breed
ing, immediately iutsrp"sed on behalf
of the private soldier Bailey.
NE Is innocent" he declared. II
th'nk the indictment against him Is
wrongly drawn. want him defended
rs ably as myself II am permitted
and he hasn't the necessary means for
defence 7 viii provide them"
There We're many IN court who felt
that the hearing aud trial 10 come were
"A waste ~ public money. that Case
mant should hay. been court-martiallcd
and shot in Ireland without having been
hrough, to England. Who nevertheless
felt that they Mould rather he Easement
than tho pink checked. blue owed in
former Bailey.
Gable dispatches have outlined Tho
scope of the testimony. hut ink and rcn
can never do Justice to tho simple. dra.
matte manner In which tho Crown as
semhlcd its evidence
There was not the slightest fuss. not
the slightes, ruffle Piece by piece the
case WAS huilt W un'il when the hearing
closed and the prisoners we're committed
for trial II was impossible for the lay
mind 10 discern n single missing stone
III tue 'bTlplttt'l ''lllt'a l b'liIlN I''1'l-
ing more dramatic has ever been Wit
messed I'm any cour, than To see Irish
soldier after Irish soldier. exchanged ~
unfit from German prisons. toll of Case
ment's activities In the camp Al Linn
burg. where with speeches and eShortn-
lions he urged his imprisoned compa-
triots TO join the Irish brigade and strike
against the enemy. England
As II tina, were not enough in the way NJ
dramatic value the testimony Of Farmer
Mccarthy, wandering on the sands
Of Ardferi. stronger than a mile from
his house as he strikingly phrascd II.
found floating n collapsihle boat with a
dagger IN II. Then came n touch that
outdcfoed Defoe three sets Of foot
prints Of his quarry, boxes buried in the
sand. his little daughter OF playing
with three huge loaded Mauser pistols,
his rush FOR the police. Mary German,
the buXom blue eyed colleen, Identify
ing Easement as one OF three mon she
saw pass through the yard AT 30 on
Good Friday morning the dramatic ar
rest OF easement, hiding In the under
growth OF McKenna's fort, al tho point
Of n carbine the smart handsome Collins
boy OF IL seeing Easement throwing
away n paper which the boy afterward
recovered and turned over TO the police
and which proved to he the secret code
20 be used in some not yet disclosed
manner,
Every Move Traced.
most languid. dispa .eionate manner
Step by step the case against Easement
was erected. Then attention would he
turned to Bailey. and the deadly chronol-
ogy of facts, Of activities In Germany. of
movements In Ireland again came into
play. Every movement OF Easement was
traced from the time he was arrested
until he was safely lodged In the Tower,
The same was true Of Bailey,
Care was taken TO send a diver
down forty fathoms and briug up from
the bottom OF tho sea rifles and car
tridg~', and then n Russian Colonel
identified the rife and clip as Russian
while n Lieutcnant-Colonel from ia,
War office testified 10 maps found IN
the bags AT Ardfert as being similar ,c
those used by the German War office
To complete the tale there was found IN
one OF the oNercoats a sleeping ear ticket
from Berlin to Wilhelmshaven while 4
sedate official from the Foreign Dffic,
produced that dramatic letter OF thanks
from Easement to Sir Edward Grey "x'
pressing his humble duty to the King
for the honor OF knighthood
Everything was o In n quiet. or,
derby manner, From the opening Of the
Acknowledgement, Sir +, f.. Smith. Il. G..
! NJ. T.. TO the final commitment for trial
there was no grit In the machinery
Smiths indictment Of Easement wa
wonderful I'm its dispassion, lack o.
rhetoric or defamation. yet every wore
was weighed and counted.
Some three weeks from now casemen'
and Bailey will take their places in tn
dock OF the Kings Bench Court and tn.
real trial will he marked with that cere
mony and costume that England know,
so we'll how to arrange in her judicia
dramas.