Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-19 | Page 3 | President Asks England to Delay the Execution

PRESIDENT ASKS ENGLAND TO DELAY THE EXECUTION WA Sill NHTOX, lay 1 8. President. "Wilson, acting at the request of Senator (VOorman of New York, sent a me.ssage ton l.a lit. t h rough the state depart men t to KmliriKf-Twlor Page at Tonclnn, directing: him to make every possible effort to se-4 se-4 cure a delay in the execution of sentence on .lemmiah (.'. .Lynch of New York, a naturalized American convicted by- a court-martial of being implicated in tfie Irish uprising in Dublin. Information telegraphed here tonight to S' lia l fr O'fiorman by friends of Lynch in New York was io the effect that lie had been sentenced to death and would JZgsfc 1,(1 Fnot al midnight, New York time. Secretary .Lansing at. the direction of the president, nt f o'clock tonight cabled Embassador Em-bassador Page to make representations in behalf of "Lynch in order to save his llff pending an investigation' of the facts in bis ca se by the A meriean government . President Wilson was nl a theater when Senator '' O'Oorman called at the White house. Secretary Tumulty hurried hur-ried to the theater and laid the facts before the president. ( 'able dispatches today had told of i Lynch's conviction, but did not give the 1 sentence.