SIR ROGER CASEMENT

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 August 1916, Page 2

SIR ROGER CASEMENT

London, August 3. Sir Roger Casement's solicitor etatos that he did not expect to be reprieved. He will be hanged to-morrow morning. Sir Roger Casement liinisolf expected to bo treated as a traitorous solddier and shot.

Later. Sir Roger Casement has been liang•i.

SOME PARTICULARS OF THE MAN. An Irishman who knew Sir Roger Casement, in his youth, has conimuni<ated to- the Daily Mail these particulars of his family and of his character when a boy:— "The Casements were « very wellknown County Antrim family with several branches. The grandfather was Mr Roger Casement, a land agent and well-to-dio man of property. Tho whole family have always been Protestants, staunch liiemtters of tho O r-angt) societies, and pronounced L'n:o.nibts, and so were a»I Sir Roger 'Casement's early associations and associates "His father was once an officer in tie British Army. He was a recluse a .Kl an eccentric, and n's hobby was t'm 'cccult.' He lived at the Adair Aims, and undertook to give a seance aiid raise 'spirits' for the habitues ol the hotel. On the night of a seance, at the hour appointed! lor tho start he was found dead in his room. The people said that his spirit was too big tor his frail body and that he liad simply 'snuffed out.' He waa an extraordinarily Don Quixote-looking n-.an. "Roger, at that time about fourteen, was being educated at the Diocesan Suliooi, at Ballymena. Left alone in the world, he was practically adopted by .Mr and Mrs John loung, junr., well-known linen people of Ballymena. With tliem he spent his holidays, and tvas coming and going there until 1891)

' 'xVt sclxooi he was a great friend oi' niy brother, and often came to my Home. He was A remarkable boy, nandsome, gentlemanly, gay, and of a singularly happy temperament. But no was a very determined boy, always wrj pure of himself, and with command and influence over boys much older than himself."