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: * A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE.
Vol, XIIL, No. 38. Whole No. 674,
Entered an second-class matter. Oct. 1, (003, at the Post Office at
ENow Yorks Ne Ys under Ube act of Congress of March 3, 17%.
JAMES CONNOLLY BUTCHERED WHILE WOUNDED
NEW YORK, AUGUST 12, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SIR ROGER CASEN I him in order to terrorize a race that
if B VELY 0 I 1S DE ATH they have failed to terrorize in seven
4 i continuous effort.
at . : t A they have restored
good opinion of many men
in Jreland who bitterly resented bis at-
tempt to stop the . They willa
cherish his memory now as they do
ose of Robert Emmiet, the Menchester
Martyrs, Pearse, Clarke, Connolly, Mac-
Dermott, Plunkett, and the other men
who died for Ireiand
SIR ROGER DIED BRAVELY.
towing was the account of the exe
cution sent by the Associated Pres:
LONDON, August 8—Roger Case-
ment, former British Kpight and Con-
sul, was hanged at 9 o'clock this morn.
ing in Pentoviie Jail for High Trea.
Hanged in London While a Brutal, Cowardly, Jeering English Mob Holds an Orgy of
* Rejoicing Outside the Prison, Exactly Like That Enacted in Manchester When the
Three Martyrs Died in 1867,°and Arish Men and Women Kneel in Prayer, Each
Showing the Unchangeable Characteristics of Their Race=--The Prisoner Had Be-
come a Catholic, Received Communion Before His Death and Was Attended by
Priests to the End---Executed fer Participation in an Insurrection He Had Yainly
His Brave Daughter, Nora, Arrives In America, After Eluding The English Sleuths, ~
Tells The Story Of His Last Hours And Brings His Death Speech—The Sorely
Wounded Man Was Awakened From His First Sleep To Be Told He Was
To Die—Maxwell Violated The Terms Of Surrender Agreed Oa
ith The Rebels And Then Denied There Were Asy—How
Miss Connolly Rescued Mellows And Tramped To
Dublin From Dundalk In Two Days.
Nora Copnolly, daughter of James) died, was told yesterday by his daugh-
who, eluding the
Tried to Stop. England’s Rulers Botievi After S “Hundred Y f Ute son. ‘He was ¢ ctad of conspiring te siti Fine jete “Nepoblican Ara, Brush eutborte, {s now
, ers Believing, After Seven Hundred Years of Utter|ceus,, sorely reland and rar of General
-" , find _ . . Vg . ee Butcher Maxwell a few daye after th ae him on a stretcher from
Failure, That They Cam Intimidate the Stiil Unconquered Irish--They Have Only) "ro oure before the execution York inet eck she tame by a foun | ay 1s Gini ry Pty mere
carried him
1 e ci
about way, without the Permission of
th-r/to Kilmainham ‘Jail, four miles away.
gathered before te prison gates. Twen- the British’ Government.
Fanaed the Flame of Irish Resolution to a Whiter Heat and Added One More to
bes ieee ee fase sae ante ed xpressed the dying wish ‘hat his} They propped him in a chair because
e scal ie great prison agan | facaily sbould ome to America, but the | hy uldn't stand, a: then shot bim
- the Long List of English Crimes to Be Avenged When the Day of Reckoning Comes. to toll The sound wes. greeted with| Drie Government refused "to give 1 they took his body to the
cheers from the crowd. mines we them a to leave Ireland. So! Ai Hill Barracks, threw {t into a
some groans, or the crow ¥ 7
Sir Ro oger Casement was hanged in|onstrated to be without a shadow of done that rey woula ‘pave spared his} had swollen to such proportions that it Aes Convoy had to come without patr fot eee vered he Soar wu
London at $ o’clock on th orning of wndation. Cecil’s filppant untruths|life, but, of urse,. such action was] extended for two blocks from the prison 8} ad no difficulty in getting away. autcktime. “ ° "™
uguet The resolution of the United | are only part of the new revelation that| wholly tnconcetvable on his part. front, one minute after 9 a singlc| Tho servants of the British . Govern- ws
it
the England of Cromwell still Hives, but
without Cromwell's ability or
ALL FOR THE BEST.
day, if President Wilson and the State! 1+ js better for Ireland and for no dou! anged | the crowd, which suddenly @ied away
ment that the pleas failed. The british for connection’ with a Rebellion which | into ‘aad silence.
had done his utmost to d|MET DEATH WITH CALM COURAGE.
failed mainly uso of those
““They refused to give us the body.
‘They w
vide @ coffin,
hat was my father's end.”
TRIED TO STOP THE REBELLION.
sement went to Ireland
ion. © There is
reland are very stupid and ‘would not. even perwilt us to
them are very bright pe Bro-
nolly Is not tall, so
was to. shorten her skirts, let her bair
han houlders and she and
3
3
3
lown on her 6!
nd is now thirst-
ing tor Irish blood... But the Senate was
entre
tive
oRorES oF 4 BeuraL ENGLISH
fal, cows veel English mob,
“selves
Englishmen a rhea 7
ey fall into the
paid the pensity of his de
vee to ntrored with his life and his
his
ted by the conduct of the Execu-| ry,
the man who wi
hose: who were
spared
th
tween
tl id Casement,
2
co?
y. Now
larke,: Connolly,
jd make comparisons be-| ment wi
and | order countermanding the Easter
ot, which did
his’ health broken and nerves shattered,| John Dilion and’ Eoin SacNent “rere
British | close personal friends,
of Common:
jay manuvres
evide!
ly had exceptional sources of tn-
his name‘ts linked with those of Pearse, format ent
incontrovertible fact that
t| efforts? John Dillon, in a speech in the | cours
@ un-| House
last
e-| arrived, he sj
sun-
and the
bread and butter and dra:
end’ Mr. Dillon He had v
anneared, "said Fath
°
nei crves. were completely
Catholic
side" ‘he vein walle
was it
ing cro
rho had. slept
Church,
until 7 erie, ‘when Father McCarrell
nt the time reading the
fmstructions of the Chureh for assistin
taking
Mass he are a little
ass
very litle to tay to the
rem:
“oAfter’ Father McCarrell and another
priest had administered the-rites of the
, the clery
ting hnelaent took place
“Hel or
er McCarrell, “like
soundly—his
looked like a girl of fifteen. The rot
e| by which she came peed a jot be ene
toned Just n Is gutte | enough to
tow that she 4 ot ‘satel
BRITISH UonareD Tens OF
ret She brought many y pateresting things
with her, among them a copy of her
tethers last speech to the courtmartial
d the original, in his own handwrit-
ing of his acceptance of the conditions
surrender. The British Government
has repeatediy denied that any condi-
fons were. granted
but Connoliy’s written acceptance gives
that statement: the Ife. direct, Lawrence
Ginnell tried very“hard the other day
wer B question oD
with dodged it and
of
arks
were DO showers during their trip, but
to the Insurgents, | -
forces in Dublin on that fateful Easter
Monday when the revolution begat
WOUNDED LEFT WITHOUT CARE.
“Father,” said Miss Connolly,. “had
been directing operations with the Post
day
bimself
was not un!
day and
t until the week from ft
following Monday that mother and ™:
unger sister saw, him.
ed for pot
60 that father could not obtain means
td commit sutctde,
an my fans. into “thelr execution , shed,” ‘five yards away. but Ginnoll refused. to » hea
elvteh is th forty-nine years that he priests recited the Itany of the| Padraic Pearse was the only man en we vane Fe hone barred to five their
ave intervened bet je two exe: dying, Casement responding in low|the Rehel side who could tell of the| no sessanee to father nor carry any
cutions Jobn has not changed an tones: “Lord have mercy on my soul.” | terms of surrender, but Maxwell abso-| 70 vipunses €0 father nor carry, any
he “British Demorracy’” We ne s the party reached the shed where|lutely retused to let anyone see him.| "cr
sume _ to-day under Oliver the gallows was erected, the spectat eve-| But it is certain that Butcher Maxwell. girec tte next deg. told we could seo
H Cromwell, it siushtere the surrender tioner, -a hair-dresser named Ellis,|the Jemeson Raider, who entenced | Gar nt 2-30 o'clock tn the atte
| ed garrison of Drogheda, massacred tl approached Casement and pinfoned him.|to derth and was saved from exccution| Wien we arrived at Ste we wore
women and children at Wexford. Cross, fe two chaplains, the Undor Sheriff of| by Paul Krueger, agreed to terms of| tty to cone back at £30 eelock
and caught Irish babies on its bayonets don, and the Under Sheriff of Mid-| surrender with the Rebels and then| ‘0 2 Soe o'clock
to the ory of “Nits wil be Iice.” The dlesex, then: took their «positions in| violated them and bed t the leaders.and EIGHTEEN TO GUARD ONE. °
teenth Serenteanth, Elphtosrh front of the scaffold.» C: t mount. Reveral others sho 1 ‘addi-| “Then we were taken to ® faineized
Nineteenth snd Fwentoth Centuries ro ed the gallows steps firm ‘om- 0 being a cold blooded butcher, he | Foom tn 'which there were fifteen sol-
the Eng! lishman mé cruel, mended is spirit to God me "ne stepped is a uenonorebte man who executed; diers with rifles and fixed bayonets,
savage ‘brute, the only difference being on the t ‘A moment Jaier the lever| Prisoners of war with whom he had|They had mattresses on the floor as”
that his courage is lessening with the ‘as puiled. . agreed te rms ot surrender that| well so they must have slept there. In
Immediately was spared thelr live: a little anteroom off that there were
TRISETMEN ARE NOT GRIEVING. sprung the prison engineer and physi- ALEED Prov DUNDALE To, {three other soldiers siso with rifles end
The hangin, fed out accord clan descended into’ the pit where, be. fred ber bayonets:
ing to the forms of English law, as wat after tbe application of the-usual tests,| afiss Connolly wee at avery ine] "12 com where father lay was
the trial, and neither Casement himself Casement was pronounced dead at nine[torosting experience in Ireland daring 29 ao omer in full uniform, sword and
nor any Irishman who his opin: minutes after 9 ‘ording -to the revolver in his belt. Eighteen armed
tons ‘opes pleaded for mercy custom in the case of prisoners hang soldiers and an officer to a one
or for mitigation of sentence. It is var for crimes similar to that of Caseme! mm, and that man in bed and unable
-to the death between England and Ire- his body will be buried in quicklime in to move, “I shall never forget the effect
They tax eer th Ge cision as to the burial will be made to wan ond weal fo voice and fust able
will be
tibet “iad "yhate or wealene ses until after the inquest w | to tte hia bea from his pillow. Oh, he
any of them may show, or errors of SYMPATHETIC dnisi gRour ouT- s0 w and in such pain. He
wanted us to ask Sheehy Skeffington to
eee his poems, and give the pro-
oe
“You know,’ he sald, ther have Just
a finished courtmartialling
LY TOLD HE is ‘TO DIE.
‘Thursday at midnight, mother and
t were awaken:
rave, ing found by a motor-ambulanc®
‘worthy Banton elend and oe mi announced tl ad that had come t take us to Dublin
has been added to the long roll of Ire- paid the last penalty, this Merle group wolver | Castle. We arrived about 12:30 o'clock,
land’s martyrs, to be cherished for al fell on th ith bowed |under my skirt, and I didn’t want any-|"} suppose you know what this means,”
+ “time by the Irish rece, England gains remained ents|one to notice them.” id father. Mother had been hopeful.
nothing by her but a new crop It rains nearly every day in Ireland,|She did not believe they would shoot a
t hatred.” The but fortunately for the travellers, there| wounded man. But I felt that if they
d
would courtmartial a 8 helpless Prisoner
zest and intenst three notices were posted on the prison|{t was quite cold and sleeping in a field the would not hesitate to shoo
Irishmen may be shot ar hanged. So. The first, signed by the Underjon a chilly night was not very comtor-| «"Father said: ‘It means I die at ae
day the tide will turn and Bagland will Sheri of London, the governor of the|table. They were very tired when they] ter to four he ey woke
be punished for her crimes. s ~ . ison, and Father James -MoCarrell,|reached Dublin and by the time the; it 11 tonight, to tell me, It is the
‘i 1 ot there it ible to get near re
* BNGLAND WANTED BLOOD, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN. GERMANY, Casement'’s confessor, read: Bt ere it was impos le to Bt firet time I have had any relief fram
> “Judgment of death was this day ex
ecuted on Roger David Casement in his
Majesty's prison of Pentonvitle, in our
presence.”
*A similer notice was signed by the
Under Sheriff of Middlesex County. The| Connolly says that by the end of Easter
the name of P, R. Mander,| Week there Sere 38,000 British troops
the prison surgeon, who certined that|in Dublin, while the number of fnsur-
he had amined the body and found | gen’ ig them was only 1,500,
Casement 1 ~ :
A SAVAGE BUT BUTCHERY.
effort .° save Casement’s life
not associated with him
was practi-| dicated by his death and he died Itke
led| a brave Irishm:
The attempt “Of the British Govern-
non Sir Roger Casement
woke me
were in possession of the British army,
which had been heat ily reinforced and
new regiments, errivin
from Sir Roger Casement on Faster
nate after re latter had landed iC
Kerry. That information was whol
incorrect, but sir Roger believed it to
be true, He had been asked by the men
a] who sent him to Germany to remain in
Bertin to took | after Irish interests
and he went to Irel and against
thelr "wishes to ‘io something of which
they utterly disapproved. And “ine sub-
shall never forget the smile that beav-
tinea father’s face as he reacbed out
other's and said: ‘Yes,
doar, not been & ge life and is
tt not soing to be a &
HE EXNEW OF OTHER pEeCt: TIONS.
TaD. ve OF DEATH.
ment last night showed not the
American of Saturday and s=
aay Yast coutained nome of the docu-|heart of Dublin
evidence was a
0
were mad? on grounds:
humanity, pwolte policy or exoediency
~ nd Ey se to
Dounce rejection, wi
tion of falsehoods that have ‘been dem-
1d done be ee
That, coul M he
‘ting
Casement to turn informer. hai
after hi
These
er capture by~ the
e the absolute facts of Sir
Roger Casement’s going we, Ireland, The
British Govern he , had
nothing to do with “tie "Rebellion but
d| they wanted a victim am
a
nk. by
x
a5
All the member:
fy . were Protestants
and they hanged! -
uld be allo wed to wear his own ctvil-
ian clothes for the execution.
‘8 of Casement's fam-| In the
he was
and
(Continued on ™ Pape 2)
Dp ments which Miss Connelly rongat
d and personal statements made by
her which throw an interesting. light
on events in Dadtin during and ater
Easter
‘American of August 1. Miss
guards and the cightecr falaters with
fixed bayonets, the news of Skefingtou's
death had reached hi
“At halfpast two the office
“Time is up.’ There was a farewell tise
Connolly thus describes ber father's
last hours:
, How James Gonnclty, irtsh batrlot, .
aay on seemed to turn to stone.
y led us erey. We went hom)
(Wontinued on ved om Poe 8.)
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