Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 70, 27 June 1916, Page 6

Great Britain

THE KINC'S REPRESENTATIVE

NEW SPHERE FOR THE DUKE OF CONNAUCHT.

[United Prkbb Association.] / .■ ../.:■:- (Received 12.5 p.m.) Ottawa, June 26. It is believed that the Duke of Con;naught,- who is shortly retiring from the Governor-Generalship, will be appointed to represent the King in Ireland under Home Rule. CASEMENT ON TRIAL. PLEA OF "NOT GUILTY." OPENINC FOR THE PROSECUTION. (Received 12.55 a.m.) London, June 26. The High. Court galleries were packed, the crowd outside being unable to gain admission, •Casement, who was neatly attired, was less nervous than when in the Police Court. The indictment was couched in simple terms, viz.", that he'did solicit, incite, and endeavour to persuade the King's subjects and prisoners-of-war to forsake their duty in allegiance to ■the King. ..." •-■'• .'JyIV-'- "■■- Before Casement was allowed to make a plea, Mr Sullivan, for the defence, interposed, and riioved to quash the indictment on the ground that it was not alleged the act was done on any territory over which the King had; dominion. .The judges consulted, and replied that; the proper time to move to quash the indictment was after the case for the prosecution had closed. ;.;.•< v; t 1 Casement then pleaded "Not Guilty" firmly. The prisoner challenged numerpus jurymen, rejecting nineteen for the twelfth juror. The Attorney-General (Sir F- F. Smith), in opening the case, said the prisoner was guilty of the most heinous crime. ' The jury would have to consider whether it was aggravated by the position formerly held by the prisoner, who was an able, cultivated man, and well versed politically. He .was not a life-long rebel against England like.some others in history, and his career had been marked by W®s f me , g c|ns#^tk^aWfHle«el^me«i« ? of J 'tlie gffcat Empire*" and had evfitttuali^iegedjonjui (kMJoj'^JfP^F^ %? A WX for a special purpose. The prisoner was man-guest willing to play the-part of seducing the captured, Irish soldiers from their allegiance." that this Was the forerunner of a Gecirian 'invasion of Ireland. The vast majority treated Casement's -rhetoric with contempt. , ,-., • .'Sir F. E: Smith detailed the facts of the? landing and the arrest. ::.• &' ■«>A-witness tor the Crown testified »ta Casement's activities. He believed that in the event of Germany winning I .ihe-isflft.: fight; tlferlri-shmeh^.'Uvho'ihad Mould;3 he blanded i >iri sreltondtii:JiiJ,<}eil i many iailed to win the i-wsifril'the.ys wo\fild'«e«*we (free/passage's hnn n j 'it sWcwn<3«EH? th\ti ■ Mandated' atfrtfl«ipalic»ofcurt / ferial .u H:■.'• j