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Title: Celebrated spies and famous mysteries of the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Barton, George, 1866-1940
Subjects: Spies World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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would not permit witnesses to be brought from Germany to testify for the defense. The Government, however, consented to his appearance as of counsel for the prisoner and it is said that he was the first American lawyer officially recognized in the British Courts and whose appearance was officially recorded. It was through the activities of Mr. Doyle that the United States Senate adopted the resolution asking for clemency on behalf of Sir Roger Casement. It was an impressive scene when the Kings Coroner, in accordance with tradition, arose to read the indictment. This declared that Sir Roger Casement was to be tried under the Treason Act passed in the days of Edward III. It charged the prisoner with traitor-ously contriving and intending to aid and assist theenemies of our Lord, the King, against our Lord theKing and his subjects, and said he * did traitorouslyadhere to and aid and comfort the said enemies in parts beyond the sea without this realm of England, to wit, in the Empire of Germany.
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Copyright by Brown & Dawson, Stamford, Conn. SIR ROGER CASEMENT SIR ROGER CASEMENT 165 The prisoner was not the least interesting figure in this picturesque setting. There was about him an air of dreamy melancholy. He followed the speeches and the testimony carefully, and when he spoke it was in the manner of a cultivated gentleman who had an unusual knowledge of law and history. Indeed, in spite of his quiet demeanor, there was a something about him which can best be expressed by the word, magnetism. One writer, Padraic Colum, pictures Sir Roger Casement as follows: In appearance he does not conform to any Irish type. Tall, bearded, with black hair and remarkable dark eyes, with measured and courteous speech, with nervous and commanding bearing, he looks ones notion of a Castilian nobleman. He has the mostromantic distinction of any man I ever saw. I often notice people turn in the Dublin streets to look at him. When I think of him now I always see one picture. It is a poor, wind-swept

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