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Show lU. S. HOT IGLIGEWT IN mm CASE British Ambassador Told Tumulty Clemency 1 Was Impossible. LONG BRANCH", Oct. 16. A letter from Secretary Tumulty to Michael Francis Doyle, attorney for Sir Roger Casement, containing a deniel that the American government was negligent in Its efforts to save Sir Roger Casement from being executed after his conviction for treason in England, was made public today. Mr. Tumulty replied to a letter from Mr. Doyle, saying Mrs. Newman, Sir Roger's sister, had received Information from London that her brother's life might have been spared had the resolution urging urg-ing clemency adopted by the United States senate been forwarded to the British Brit-ish foreign office more promptly. "It can be said that the state department depart-ment discussed the Sir Roger Casement matter with the British ambassador on several occasions, informally, but In great detail, before the passage of the senate resolution: that the senate resolution was prepared on Saturday and that the ambassador am-bassador at once conveyed the information informa-tion to tlie British government. On Wednesday, the day before the execution, when the ambassador and I were again discussing the subject, lie showed me a cable from his government staling that his government had considered the Casement Case-ment case and the resolution of the senate, sen-ate, and had come to the conclusion that, in view of all the circumstances, it could not grant clemency. "'Particular stress was laid, as I recall, re-call, by the British government on the fact that Irish prisoners in Germany who refused to assist Casement had been punished. pun-ished. The statements made in letters to Mrs. "Newman that had the resolution been presented in time her brother's life would have been spared, were utterly and entirely without foundation. You can state authoritatively that the ambassador read me the actual message from his government, govern-ment, stating the resolution had been considered con-sidered and that the conclusion had been reached that clemency could not be granted." |