New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15

Forecast
charges set out against you fully and
perfectly established.
THE KAISER (raising his hand aIoft)
Deutschland iiber Allies!
(Amgry cries in the crotOd.)
THE LORD CHANCELLOR-Silen
Silence This is no place for passion or
anger against this man who is now our
prisoner, and let there be no cries or
even murmurs of approval or disapproval
as justice advances upon its memorable
path.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL-My
Lords, the Act of Parliament passed to
establish this Court for this state trial
provides that upon your lordships should
be conferred full plenary and complete
power and authority to pronounce any
sentence you may determine upon this
prisoner. AS the designer and authorizer
of innumerable murders of non-comba-
tants, men, women and children, and of
gallant wounded soldiers lying helpless
in hospitals on sea and land, it is my
duty to urge upon you that he share the
fate Of all other convicted murderers
under our law.
(The black cap is placed on the
head of the Lord Chancellor By his
clerk. As he begins to pass sentence,
at the avord frederick" every one IN
the Court rises.)
THE LORD CHANCELLOR-Fred
ericl William Victor Albert HohenzoI-
lern, there is but one sentence known to
the law of England for convicted MUIR
derer-and a murderer you have been
proved to be. For the instigator of muir
der, the composer of murder the abet-
tor of murder, though he assign
to others the actual strokes that
kill is as much, in law and in
fact, a murderer as is the plant in
strument of his foul intent. There is no
atrocity that your soldiers have not COM
mitted and that you have not Endorsed.
Never in any court, since there have been
courts, have such accumulated infamies
been brought home to one man.
When by your orders the Lusitania
was sunk in midocean and innocent wom-
en- and little children were left to strug-
gle and drown in the trampling waves,
you applauded the awful act and di-
rected that medal should be struck to
commemorate the deed.
When the captain of one of your sub
marines placed upon his deck the capt
ured crew of an unarmed merchant YES
sci that he had sunk, destroyed their
boats, took from them their lifebelts,
carried them miles away from any float
ing wreckage, and then projected them
into the sea to drown you decorated the
ruffian for his unspeakable cruelty.
When gallant Fryatt, fulfilling every
duty captain owes to his inoffensive
crew and helpless passengers, turned the
bows of his unarmed packet boat upon
the infamous scoundrel in your abomi-
nable submarine who sought to murder
them in cold blood, he fell into YOUR
hands, and, coward that you are, you
wreaked your vengeance upon nobility
that was beyond your comprehension and
valor that rendered you insignificant.
There were times in the past when
justice would have avenged such awful
crimes as have been proved against YOU
at this trial with torture of your living
body and dissertation of your lifeless re-
mains, but this court will not debase i
self by initiating your own denominations
The sentence, therefore. of this court
upon you is that you be taken from
hence to the Tower of London and tbs+
you there be hanged by the neck till