Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-17
EASEMENT MUST
STAND TRIAL FOR
HIGH TREASON
Sir Roger and Daniel Bailey
Held for Court by
Magistrate
DEFENSE STILL SECRET
Maps Strengthen Contention Re-
volt Plans Originated
in Berlin

IoNDoN, May 17.-Sir Roger Case
..snt and Daniel Bailey were committed
- formal trial on charges of high treason
~ Sir John Dickinson, presiding magis-
sy.,e. at the conclusion of the preliminary
ksartng in Bow street police court this
afternoon.
roth Sir Roger and his soldier confed-
.xsta will now &C trial for their lives in
shs High Court of Justice If convicted,
.hey probably will be sentenced to death,
easement being given the privileges ac-
sorded his rank of being hanged with a
silken cord
The Magistrates decision was announced
after the Crown. at brief session today,
Mad completed the framework of its case
AGAINST the two accused men. Counsel for
! Easement and Bailey, during the three days
NJ the preliminary hearing, contented
themselves chiefly with cross.examining
,vitnesses for the Crown, reservng their
actual defense for the trial later
The nature Of Easements defense is still
a mystery Counsel for Bailey will attempt
70 show that the former Irish soldier knew
nothing of the character of the undertake.
fng upon which he embarked In a German
U.boat and speedily informed British au-
thorities of the plans to foment rebellion
when he landed on the Irish coast
BAILEY REVEALS PLANS.
Constable Carter, cross-examined by
counsel 1Or Bailey, SalQ tnat when Bailey
was arrested he declared he had important
Information to give the police. The purpose
Of this testimony was to show that Bailey
knew nothing of CasementS-plans to lead a
rebellion until he reached the Irish coast,
and was willing to aid the Government as
soon as he had an opportunity.
Sergeant Bustwick, of the Irish constabu-
larry, testified that Bailey after his arrest.
Informed the officers at the barracks of the
plans to land an expedition from the Ger
man auxiliary Aud.
Bustwick said that Bailey, before giving
him news of the expedition, asked that he
be guaranteed protection and freedom In
spector Britten, of the constabulary, re-
sponded that he could guarantee protection,
but not freedom.
Britton followed Bustwick in the witness
box, corroborating his story about the cir
cumstances under which Bailey confessed.
Bailey. he said, fully described the equip
ment of the Aud and the plan Of the Ger.
mans to land on April "a. He expressed
the greatest surprise when the inspector
told him that the Aud had been sunk after
being intercepted by an Admiralty sloop.
u Bailey also gave the police information
about the plans of the Sim Feiners Britten
said. He told how the rebel leaders planned
70 seize Dublin castle and hold it until the
arrival of the supplies of ammunition from
the Aud. hoping then to gather enough re-
cruits to hold Ireland against any army
England would dare to send. Britten said
he did not promise immunity from prosecu-
ton in return for Bailey's statement, but
that he did pledge himself to obtain the
bet possible treatment for the prisoner
alleys statement was then read inl court
the magistrate overruling the objection of
the defense to its presentation
Second Lieutenant -Brairley, of the War
Office, testified to the previous good record
Of Bailey, Easements confederate, while
serving in an Irish regiment.
MAPS MADE IN BERLIN.
Maps found in the possession of Sir Roger
Easement support the contention that the
plans for the Irish rebellion originated in
the German War Office, Lieutenant Colonel
Gordon, of the British War Office Intelli.
gence Department testified today.
Gordon said he had examined maps of
Ireland carried by Easement when he
landed from n German submarine and that
none of them was printed in Great Britain.
They gave certain details as to landscape
that showed they had been made under
the direction of the German War Office
and thus supported the belief that the
German Government played an important
part in the scheme for the rebellion.
Colonel Nicolas Belaiew representing the
Russian War Office in London, was called
TO the witness box and asked to examine
rife of Russian manufacture taken from
HOlu lne ana
which accompanied Sir Roger on his expe-
dition to Ireland and was sunk off the coast.
Colonel Belaiew said the rifle was of the
type OF 1905. A scabbard and bullet handed
to the witness were not of Russian make.
he said.
Although there was no promise of sensa-
tional developments at today's session, and
despite bad weather. another big crowd
aurged about the doors of the court, many
OF them merely curious to get peep at the
famous prisoner, whose alleged plotting In
Germany had done so much to stir up civil
strife in Ireland.
Sir Roger showed more anxiety than on
me two preceding days when he took his
place in the prisoners dock. but as usual
he was prepared to take voluminous notes,
Ior he carried a sheaf of note paper under
his arm.
The prisoners hair was rumpled and his
Iaee was lined, and altogether he looked
Is though he had had vary little rest during
the night. As he taQk his seat Easement
nodded TO his friends and relatives among
the spectators,
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