THE MYSTERY OF LIEUTENANT LUCAS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 207, 8 September 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE MYSTERY OF LIEUTENANT LUCAS.

WEALTHY* OFFICER NOT "A POOR FARMER'S SON."

The case of Lieutenant Lucas, wlw was shot in Guinness' Brewery during the Sinn Fein rebellion, has created a great sensation in Canada. It was reported at the recent courtmartial on the sergeant by whose orders Lieutenant Lucas was shot, after bfeing under arrest for an hour, that the officer had made statements of » nature to cast the gravest suspicion on h ; s character as a loyal soldier. Several witnesses said, for instance, that L ; eutenant Lucas stated, "I am only a poor farmer's son '"and "I was led into it By others." He. was also stated to have said that he was praying for his "wife and child." Lieutenant Lucas was NOT A FARMER'S SON. He had a wife but NO CHILD. His loyalty and zeal as a<» officer were beyond question. Ho was a young Englishman prominent in Montreal society and intimately connected in business with Sir H. 3. Holt, the banker. At the beginning of the war he came to England and enlisted as a trooper. He was promoted to a commission in tho cavalry, and ds tinguished himself at the front. He was invalided home and attached to a resorve regiment at the Curragh, where he did useful work, particularly during the rebellion. Mrs. Lucas, who is the daughter of Mr. David Yule, a wealthy Canadwa, has returned to Montreal. As the veidence of the soldiers in the court-martial appears, on the face of it, to reflect on the dead officer's loyclty, tho matter is to be brought to the attention of Parliament in order to secure a full and pubic disavowal.