Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1916 — Sir Roger Casement Not to Be Executed. [ARTICLE]

Sir Roger Casement Not to Be Executed.

Sir Roger Casement, convicted of high treason against the British crown, will escape the penalty of death. The understanding is that Casement will be sent to an insane asylum because his mind is abnormal. His dairy contains references to acts which he writes he committed and which are of a character the British government feels it cannot make public. Public sentiment in England and even in Ireland is demanding his execution, but the reports received here indicate that this will not defter the King from setting aside the death sentence and directing the incarceration of Sir 'Roger in an insane asylum.