Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-14
NEW YORK.

The Traitor McDermott-His Exploits as 8 Spy for the British Government.
 BRooK1M, Aug. 13.-The Brooklyn Eagle
 this evening prints evidence of the trsachery
 of James McDermott, giving it's authority and giving the evidence in detail. It amounts | almost to conviction of treason to the Irish
 leaders and all the Irish factions, the evil dence concerning his movements in France,
 England and Ireland being furnished by
 James OMalley, one of the Cork conspirat ors, who followed McDermott to America, and the statements concerning his move ments in Canda and the planned attempts on
 his life here are given by two members of the
 Fen1an brotherhood who have their stats-
 ments sufficiently corroborated. In brief
 McDermott learned in December last that
 Dr. Gallagher and his brother were going to
 Ireland or England to blow up public build
 Ings. He identified himself with the dynam-
 ite party at once. Distrusted by Rossa as he
 was he subscribed cash to it's fund, asked to
 be given work on patriotic grounds involving
 danger and no pay, and finally on an authori-
 ty that he was to go abroad in search of
 Stuart, the Brooklyn defaulter, and was to
 correspond for the Union got an authority
 as correspondent of the United Irishman
 He won the confidence of Mrs. Cody, who
 supplied the Phoenix Park prisoners with
 money and food and secured from her the
 names of the men through whom she re-
 celved money. He gave Mrs. Cody in all
 E2oo and her suspicious were not aroused
 until she saw him conversing with Jsnkinson,
 chief of the secret service. McDermott said
 hot Ha Al knR A.
 "daring men," and the names of some men
 were given to him before suspicious were
 aroused. He wanted to establish dynamite
 societies with his own money. He made
 various efforts to entrap O'Malley by tecur-
 ing documents in his handwriting or getting
 him to write to American addresses, but his Ignorance of many things gave him away to the skirmishers and his every movement was reported at their meetings. He pretended to at once that he did not He wanted intro auctions to Castle Island people when they believed his object was to secure the S20,OOO reward for the capture of the murderer of Arthur Herbert The copy of receipt for Greek fire which he procured from wild young Irish man was known to have been received at Dublin Castle. He left Cork ostensibly for Killarney and the dynamiters discovered him in Dublin. Through Feathersones confidence in him, however, McDermott finally secured access to the dynamite meetings, discovered the buildings which were to be blown up at London and Castle Island where the police interfered. through his information, with all the plots and would have caused Deasey's arrest with nitro-glyoerine in his possession had it not been for the accidental missing of boat No men were arrested for complicity except the few known to Me- Dermott, while men more deeply involved, but unknown to him, escaped. In his room was found an order on the Irish police authorities for $50. In Paris he spent $1O,- GOO, but did not excite suspicion until letters came from Cork asking to have his move ments watched. He had no money nor in come of his own. He drew no less than 50,000 francs through Munro & Go. the day before he left Paris and then announced that he was the illigitimate son of the Earl of Wicklow and said the money Il came from his estate in Ireland. He was crowded out of Montreal and Toronto where he paraded as an Invincible suspect on in formation cabled fromI reland. Gaynor in tended to kill McDermott when he shot at him and it was again decided to kill him when he appeared against Gaynor at the Tombs. Friends refused to allow the stab ping to be done in the court room and when an attempt was made to shoot him in the car riage it was found that it could not be done without shooting Muldoon as well.