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CASEMENT'S FINAL-. STATEMENT. (Rec. Aug. 4, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, A-ug. 3. Shortly before liis execution Casement received ministration from a priest. A group of Irishmen in the street fell on their Imees when the bell tolled, and remained thus for some minutes praying. The tolling was greeted with some, cheers mingled with hoots. Sympathisers attempted a demonstration. but the police moved them on. Casement, on the scaffold, declared, C I die for my country." Mr Gavan Duffey; at the inquest', protested against the authorities' monstrous act of indecency in having refused the body to the relatives. Mr Duffey questioned the prison doctor regarding allegations that Casement was insane. The doctor replied that Casement was sane to the end.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 4 August 1916, Page 5
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122SCENE AT THE END Nelson Evening Mail, 4 August 1916, Page 5
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