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Show DEATH SENTENCE PASSED QN COL ARTHUR LYNCH Member of Parliament Who Fought With, the Boers Found Guilty of High Treason: LONDON, Jan. 23. Col Arthur Lynch, member of Parliament for Gal-way, Gal-way, was today found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death. When the trial of Col. Lynch was resumed today, counsel for the defense began summing up. There was no attempt at-tempt to . deny that CoL Lynch supported sup-ported the Boers, but counsel contended con-tended that his naturalization was In no way prompted by treasonable intent and was solely for the advantage he would thus secure for Journalistic purposes. pur-poses. Subsequently the defendant actively ac-tively supported the Boer cause in the belief that he was a legally naturalized burgher. Replying for the prosecution, the Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Carson, maintained that CoL Lynch joined the Boer army as a discontented Irishman, "thereby committing a most cowardly and most serious act of treason." His naturalization, continued the Solicitor-General, Solicitor-General, t was only a flimsy pretext. Counsel then proceeded ,ta detail the prisoner's alleged acts of! adhesgnce to his country's enemies. V 1 The Lord Chief Justice summed up very briefly. He said that If in war time a British subject joined the King's enemies. Whatever his purpose, he was guiltyof an unlawful act. Naturalization Naturaliza-tion during war time afforded no excuse ex-cuse whatever for subsequent acts. There was abundant evidence, he said, of overt acts in aiding the King's enemies, ene-mies, j- The Jury, after having been out half an hour, returned a verdict of guilty. When asked if he had anything to say as to why he should not be sentenced to death. Col. Lynch replied: "Thank you. I will say nothing." ' The sentence of death was passed on each of the four counts in the indictment. indict-ment. The prisoner then bowed to the court and was removed in custody. |