Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — SPY LANDED IN ERIN [ARTICLE]

SPY LANDED IN ERIN

BRITISH CAPTURE MAN LEFT ON BHORE BY U-BOAT. Prisoner la Taken to the Tower of London and Will Be CourtMartialed. London, May 10.—A German submarine recently landed a man on the Irish coast, where he was arrested by government officials. James McPherson, parliamentary secretary to the war office, announced in the house of commons that this man was in the tower of Loudon and would be courtmartialed. It was a German submarine that two years ago last April landed Sir Roger Casement on the Kerry coast of Ireland. Casement was apprehended by the government authorities, taken W London, and, after being Incarcerated in the tower of London, was charged with “high treason without the realm.” After a sensational trial he was convicted and hanged in Pentonville prison August 3, 1916.