Sir, – Further to Gerry Lyne’s letter (July 23rd). Thanks to the great services provided by the staff at the British Newspaper Library in nearby Colindale, I have found what seems to be the original of the photograph of Roger Casement. It appeared in the Daily Mirror on July 19th, 1916.
It is captioned: “Casement, escorted by a warder, leaving the courts after his appeal had been dismissed”.
How bizarre that just shy of 30 years later a similar process was engaged in to settle the fate of Willam Joyce. He met a similar fate, with a not-too-dissimilar legal process being “tweaked”, not to put too fine a point on it. – Yours, etc,