The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-18
EASEMENT SOUGHT
TO RAISE TROOPS
AMONG
Promised Those Held By Ser
mans 70 lead Them u lre
land or Have Them Sen.
to United States.
PRISONER is ARRAlGNED
Private Soldier, Arrested With
Him After Submarine Trip
to Tralee, Also Held
For Treason.
PRISONER IS ARRAlGNED'

Ireland, was arraigned today In pualce
court and charged with high treason.
The few spectators who were per-
mitted to enter the famous old Bow
street police court, were considerably
surprised when a second prisoner was.
placed beside Easement m the dock
This man was Daniel Julian Bailey.
a private soldier whose home ~ at
Wembley, q village near London.
Bailey was arrested at Tralee, Ireland
April II. He was jointly charged with
Easement with high treason, but his
exac connection with the Sim Fefn-
ers has not SO far been made public.
Had No Occupations
In the formal charge Easement Is de-
scribed as of no occupation and no
fixed abode. The charge against both
defendants reads:
For that they did on the first a OF
November. 1914, and on divers otner
21st day OF April. 1916, unlaWfullys
maIictously and traitorousiy commit
high treason within and without the
realm of England in contempt OF u
sovereign lord and king and his laws
to the evil example Of others in k
case and contrary to the duty n ale
glance of the said defendants"
Easement is said to have made a long
statement to the authorities and IT IS
believed this statement will shorten the
hearing before the magistrate. h
police court hearing is merely a pre-
iiminary to the real trial which Will
take place later before a panel of The
judges of the high court of justice.
Easement Changed Man.
Sir John Dickinson presided. Short
ly after the magistrate had taken his
seat, Easement and his feilew prisoner
| were shown Into the dock. Easements
! appearance was vastly different from
that Of the man who gained fame in
1912 by his exposure Of the crueities
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a British rubber company. He sat In
the lock resting his chin on his hand
and occasionally looking toward the
magistrate.
When the attorney general, opening
the case for the prosecution, mentioned
the comforting Of the Order Of Knight
hood on Easement. the prisoner
| dropped his head. The attorney gem
eral then outlined the prisoners
career.
Worked Among Prisoners.
In the opening of the case for the
crown the attorney general charged
that Easement had conducted a syste-
matte campaign among the Irish pris-
oners in Germany with the purpose OF
seducing from them their allegiance.
Bailey. he said. had been seduced in
! this manner and had made a statement
explaining Caseman's actions in de-
tail.
According to the attorney general,
Bailey was BORN in Dublin and joined
the Royal Irish rifles in 1904. He
served with his regiment in India and
was honorably discharged. At the out
break Of the European war. Bailey was
called out as a reservist and sailed
with the original expedfttonary force
to France. He was taken prisoner in
September, 1914. #
The attorney general said Bailey had
related how a large number Of Irish
prisoners had been collected from va
rious prisons In Germany and placed
In a large camp at Limburg. There he
heard addresses by Easement, whc
tried to inflame their minds against
the British government and persuade
them to break their oatlls of allegiance
and support him in his projected ex-
petition to ireland.
Hoped to Land Troops.
The attorney general said Easement
described himself as the organizer OF
the Irish volunteers and impressed up
on the Irish prisoners in Germany that
everything was to be gained for Ire
land by Germany's winning the war.
Those prisoners who Joined the brigade
he was attempting to form were prom
ised by Easement the attorney general
asserted, that they would be sent to
Berlin as guests OF the German govern
Hent. In the event that Germany won
a sea battle, he woul hand the brigade
in Ireland to defend that ountr
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the war, the German government would
give each man G10 to 20 ster1fng and
free passage to America. This is the
plan conceived in 1915; said the attor-
was begging Sir Edward Grey to con-
vey his deep appreciation to the king
for the n of knighthood. which had
just been conferred on him..
The speaker added that Easements
offer was treated with contempt by q
vast majority of the Irish prisoners.
Easement smiled and glanced toward
Bailey.
Sir Frederick Smith forwarded the
story of Easements alleged machina-
by submarine to Tralee, where he land
ed on Good Friday with Bailey and a
third man named Menteith. who is at
large still. He also told Of the send
ing of 10000 rifles from Germany to
Tralee M of how this ship was sunk
at Tralee and the crew captured.
Flaa of Rebellion.
The attorney general introduced q
dramatic touch by having brought into
the u a green and red flag. which
he said Easement had brought from
Germany to Ireland. For a moment
the prisoner sat with ayes fixed on the
floor, refusing to look at this emblem
of the rebellion. Then he glanced up at
the flag and smiled derisiyesy. Most of
the time during h attorney generals
address Easement sat in a character
lstic pose of the prisoner ever since his
: Incarceration in the tower of London
He appeared oblivious to the proceed
lngs. but occasionally glanced UP quick
ly, showing he was listening to the pro-
ceedings, Notwithstanding his appar-
emit inattention. The calling of wit
nesses for the crown began immediate
ly aftel Sir Frederick concluded his ad-
dress Sir Roger then began to take
a more lively interest In the proceed
ings. He seized a pad of paper. which