The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-03
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of London, the governor of the prison and Father James McCarrell, Case ment's confessor, read:
 Judgment of death was this day executed on Roger David Easement in his majesty's prison of Pentonville in our presence"
 A similar notice was signed by the under-sheriff of Middlesex county The third bore the name of F. R. Mander, the prison surgeon, who cer- tifed that he had examined the body and found Easement dead Ellis, the executioner, arrived in the prison early last evening and imme- d1ately made his preparations. He examined the trap door in the execu- tion shed and tested it thoroughly with bag exactly the weight of Easement. Ellis remained in the prison all night.
 Easement showed not the slightest concern over his fate. He ate well and chatted freely and cheerfully with two guards in his cell. After a hearty late supper he took off his convict clothes. He was told he would be al- lowed to wear his own civilian clothes for the execution, though he would not be permitted to wear a collar.
 All fe members of Easements 1am1ly were Protestants and he was brought up in that faith, sbut became a convert to Roman Catholicism with in the last few weeks. On June 29 he was registered as a member of the Roman Catholic Church and since that time Fathers McCarrell and Ca rey of Dublin administered to him. He had his first and only commit nfon at seven o'clock this morning at mass in his cell
 Father James McCarrell, who at tended Easement during his hanging, told a representative of the Associated Press that the condemned man met his death courageously.
 Easement went to his death like brave and bold man. said Father McCarrelf. Just before the moose was adjusted he stood forward, boldly erect, and said in clear, distinct, slow voice: Into Thy hands, Oh Lord, I commend my spirit Then still standing at his full height he added: Jesus, receive my soul The trap was sprng one minute after nine o'clock"
 Father McCarre1l said that he found Easement to be a beautiful character and he never instructed anyone in his religion who showed himself a quicker or more promising learner. Easement rose about 5:3O this morn ing. From then until o'clock, when Father McCarrell arrived, he spent the time reading the instructions of the Church for assisting mass and taking of his first communion
 Alter mass he ate a little bread and butter and drank a glass of water.
 He had very little to say to the priest .only making a few remarks about the immortality of the soul. He spoke to Father McCarrell as a man who slept soundly and was not going to his death,
 A coroner's jury found that the sen- tence had been carried out in accord ance with law and in a humane man ner. Gavin Duffy, Easements solic- itor, who appeared in behalf of rela- lives Identified the body. Reply ing to a question by the coroner, So- licitor Duffy said that Easement s health at times was very bad. He made a. plea that the body be handed over to relatives, which the authori- ties, he said, had refused. The cor oner declared he had no power to interfere, whereupon Duffy protested. saying 1t was a "monstrous act of in- decency that the authorities should refuse the request"
 At the inquest the governor of the prison and the. chief warden testified that death was instantaneous. The governor was asked by Duffy whether published that Easement had been in sane. He replied:
 "I saw no evidence of insanity. He acted in a sane manner to the end"
 All hopes of an eleventh hour re- prieve were dashed yesterday with the statement of Lord Robert Cecil, parliamentary under secretary of for eign affairs, that no government doing it's duty could interfere with the sen- tence. SuppIementing this was the disclosure by Sir Robert Newton that the Germans recently shot two Irish prisoners who refused to join Case ment's Irish Legion.
 The morning papers mostly deal in the briefest and most matter of fact way of the execution. The only edi- torial reference is in the Daily News, which says:
 we cannot but reaffirm our con- vfction that the government exhibited great unwisdom in enacting the death penalty. No evil results could have followed a communication of the sen- tence. The hanging gives the disaf- fected feeling in Ireland another martyr, embitters feeling throughout the island, alienates large and inn portant body of American opinion and enables Germany to play off the death of Easement against the death of Fryatt."
 Virtually to the very hour of Roger Easements execution strenuous eff forts were made by his friends and sympathizers in the United States and Ireland and even in England, to se- cure a reprieve. Petitions for mercy poured in upon the British govern ment and efforts were made to obtain action by President Wilson.
 Repeated attempts to pass a resolu- tion through the United States Sen ate requesting the President to urge Great Britain to extend mercy to Easement failed. This agitation was finally ended on July 27 when the Senate committee on foreign rela- tions ordered an adverse report on all resolutions proposing intercession by the United States government. The only action taken in Washington was the passage of a resolution by the Senate asking the President to use his good offices with the British authori- ties to obtain c1emency for Irish po- litical offenders.