MC'NEIL CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY
CAPTAIN WHITE SENT TO GAOL. LONDON, May-24. The court-mar tiat found John McNeil, ' president of the Sinn Fein Volunteers, j guilty of complicity in the Dublin ris- i ing. * Sentence was postponed. Captain James Whilo,. son of tho late Field-Marshal Sir George White, j who was charged at Aberdare with' being concerned in an alleged plot to I 'bring out the Welsh miners on. strike J if Connolly were .shot, was sentanced to ! three months' 'imprisonment. I Tiie prosecution stated! that "White trained Larkin's. citizen avmy at JTh. '-- lin, later incorporated .with t!:e £li.ix \ Feiners. Wlfit© was largely associated with -Sir . Roger Goii\tess. Markiowicz, Connolly, aiid Ih© ] Plunk- - etts. He urged the miners to ctrike" vh order to compel 'ijh'e Govenunent to dtal leniently with the rebels.,- •■' ■ | THE LORD LIETJTE\ T AK:n r . f - " liOfcHXKN", May 25. Lord Rosebery demanflls Hhe' abolition, I of the Loivd Lieutenancy of Ireland . f»s a useless and costly sinecure. ' ,
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Nelson Evening Mail, 26 May 1916, Page 5
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