The Casement trial ended on Thursday afternoon, as was inevit-
able after the evidence tendered, in a verdict of "Guilty," and the passing of the sentence of death by the Court. We give below some account of the trial, but may say here that it was conducted by the Lord Chief Justice and his colleagues with the most con- spicuous fairness. It will, we believe, be the general opinion of the Empire, and indeed of the world at large, that justice has been done. Whether the prisoner's legal advisers will be able they do it will, of course, be decided on its merits. As the con- victed man will so soon have to undergo the supreme penalty of the law, we shall say little about his crime. It had, however, in our opinion, no redeeming feature. Sir Roger Casement never suffered any wrong at the hands of the British Government or of the British people. Instead, he enjoyed and gladly accepted the honours and emoluments of public employment, and then basely, if fatuously and fantastically, betrayed those from whom he accepted benefits. Even in so topsy-turvy a world as that of the Irish revolutionaries, we cannot imagine Casement ever being regarded as a hero or his name being enrolled with those of Emmet and Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
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