PENAL SERVITUDE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 41, 27 November 1942, Page 4

PENAL SERVITUDE.

' SENTENCES AT BELFAST. MEN GUILTY OF TREASON, (Bee. 11.15 a,mi) BELFAST,. Nov. 26. When those convicted for treason appeared for sentence, Hugh McAtteer, described as chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army, was sentenced to 15 years’ penal servitude. . The Judge said: “You were the ringleader of this movement and the man responsible in Northern Ireland for a great deal of the evil work that has been done.” David Fleming, a bricklayer, of Belfast, who was a native of County Tipperary, and John Graham, post office assistant at Belfast, were both sentenced to 12 years’ penal servitude. John Dynan, radiographer, of Belfast, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. He stated that ho had severed connection with the Irish Republican Army. After passing the sentences, the Judge remarked: “You are leaders of this movement and brought into it boys who have no sense hut to follow where they are led.”