COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7717, 9 May 1916, Page 3

COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ

DEATH SENTENCE. COMMUTED TO PENAL SERVITUDE FOR LIFE. (Per Press Association). LONDON, May 7. Two hundred rebel prisoners have jpft Galway; another batch has been brought in. The Court-martial at Dublin senlencod Countess Markievic* to death, but the sentence has been commuted to ptfial servitude for life. Count George Plunkett’s death sentence has been commuted to ten years. AUCKLANDER’S IMPRESSIONS. Some interesting details of the diameter of the Countess Markie%\rt. were given to a reporter of the Auckland “Star” by a gentleman f | lo met and conversed with her durjujf« recent visit to the County of This Irish woman’s name lias Hjjund prominently in the cables of llent date, she being the leader of |th<> Irish rebels at the Royal College | of Surgeons, at St. Stephen’s Green, ■Dublin* ~ . . . I pic Countess is the eldest daughter I , (1,,, lute Sir Henry William GorcHurt., of County Sligo. She is li hjiiiUimu' woman, of rogwl bearing, [,| j s known over the country as heL, one of the most beautiful Irish Komen of her day. Feather-brained ■*,(] (Ijirinjr, she has a passionate love U torses, and, riding astride, she loghl leap fenees that her male esl irts would he inclined to avoid. Her Ceil ifu! eyes and flaxen hair make E r a prominent liuure at the Dublin E,urt funetiona.. Before she married L, was the Hon. Lady Gore-Booth, Ea as saeh was prominent in the sufmovement. She seemed to take H in breaking away from tin Lnainls of convention, and judged ■ raiise or opinion by t lie excitement | her. In spite of her nl Kgd masculine eliaraeteristies, she Eril society, and was happy in a Eiwiiiy room, where her hrillianee ol Kgtrrsalion, and nmsical gifts, inudt E a prominent and much sought |ft.r lu rsonality. Her love of horses Kj |„. r endless eseapades, and there Ew few hunt meetings that Were not with her presence. The ninther ■ftlic Countess was a niece of the E th Karl of Searliorough—father ol B, present earl. It was from hei Kilhrr that the daughter inherited E, bounty and love of art. The exEgie love for the unusual which ■irked her liehaviour (hiring her girl Ed did not eease when some years Ed (lie married the foreigner, Count Ertieitii it. She continued to show Eirlive interest in the cause so eonErv t„ the wishes of her old Koval Mtlitln r, and was prominent as a ■dun leader. -■lke Countess' father, Sir Henry Ell,am Gore-Booth, possessed none ■ the fiery nailin' which marked the Ely days of his daughter, hut was a Eel, unassuming man—a regular ■iTiirv— who, if he were alive, would •Ebalilv think his daughter's present ■alien was the n'sult of a lirain dis Err. llis estate, Lisadnlc, was one ■ the most heautiful in the West of ItUnd, and he had what was judged ■ bethe hest pack of foxhounds that ■s fallowed during his hunting ■n. llis keen love of his hounds in ' Eneed him to make it a condition I Ehu will that the pack be mainl Eiiot after his death. The present

goer of Hie property is Kir Joee Booth, a son of the late baronet