Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-24
WAS a B.R ITISH SPY
SENSATION SPRUNG At THE HEAR
q ING OF THE IVORY CASE. .

@s' Inner Workings' of the Physical
Force Movement. r..
LONDON, Nov. 14.-The final examina.
ton Of Edward J. Ivory, alias Edward
Bell, the saloonkeeper of New York
and alleged dynamiter, at Bow street
police court developed into sensation
equal to the excitement caused by the
revelations of the spy, LIE Caron, some
years ago.
The weekly examinations of Ivory
have been going OH at Bow street on
Friday, ever since he was brought to
London after his arrest at Glasgow
tome two months ago on the charge of
being concerned with P. J. lyman,
Kearney, Haines and others in con-
spiracy to blow up public and other
buildings by dynamite. Hitherto the
testimony has been of the usual
monotonous police court description,
but during the day the crown, repre-.
sented by G. E. Gill, sprung sensation
in the shape of the
Testimony of Government Spy,
known only as "Jones,'' a native of
Armagh, Ireland, who seems to have
succeeded in becoming member of
secret Irish organizations in New York,
''under instructions" and to have pos.
sessed himself of secrets of the Clan.
ma Gael association.
Ivory has hitherto behaved in a most
uncOncerned manner, as it confident of
acquittal, but when Jones was placed
in the witness box the prisoners face
showed CONSERVATION He was CON-
pletely staggered by the appearance of
Jones under such circumstances and
great though suppressed excitement
prevailed in court when a rulnor was
circulated that the prosecution expected
the mysterious witness to unravel the
secret history of the physical force"
movement in the United States.
When Jones first appeared on the
witness stand, Mr.. Gill asked the pre-
siding magistrate to stop all sketching
in court, exclaiming that it was Of the
utmost Importance that nothing should
be allowed to transpire to identify the
witness in the future.
Spy of the British Government
Replying to questions upon the part
of Mr.. Gill, who prosecuted for the
treasury department., Jones said he was
native of Armagh, that he was en-
ployed by the British government to
make inquiries at Manchester in 1890
and that in 1891 he was sent to Amer.
lea, where he resumed his inquiries.
Jones, it appears remained in New
York until September of the present
year, all the time apparently making
inquiries" for the British government.
He added that early in 1892 he met
William Lyman president Of the Irish
National Alliance) and Boland in New
York city aud learned Of the existence
of the Irish Nationalist organization.
Continuing, Jones said that ''on in
structions" he Joined the organization,
and was initiated into a camp known
as "The Shamrock Club" among those
present at his initiation being Lyman,
Boland, Gallagher, Kearney and lyman.
They afterwards, Jones added, formed
new camp, which was called "The
Nally club"
Meetings of the Most Secret Order.
Jones further stated that he was
elected treasurer of the Nally club,
whose meetings, it appears, were of the
most secret description, 'the district
record being burned after being read.
Part of the subscriptions, the witness
also testified, were contributed to rev.
dictionary fund and calls were made
for money to pay for the celebration of
the death of the manchester martyrs"
and aid the convicted dynamiters. An
swering further questions, Jones said
that while on his way to the Chicago
convention Of 1895, Kearney introduced
the prisoner Ivory to the witness, as a
"brother." P. J. lyman and O'Dono-
van Rosa, according to Jones, were
present, and lyman said that Ivory be-
longed to his ''camp," and had been
known to him in Dublin previous to
1852.
His Visit to Chicago.
Continuing his account of his visit to
Chicago, Jones said he arrived there on
Sept % of last year, and was met at
the railroad station by st. John Calf
ney. He stayed at McCoy's hotel,
where the committee of the secret Or
ganization met. Ivory, Jones stated,
attended the meeting at which the
names were chosen to be submitted to
the public convention as officers of the
NEW movement" the object being that
all open movement might be controlled
as it is, according to Jones, by secret
organization. In another portion of
his testimony, Jones said that he saw
Ivory two or three weeks before the
latter left America, in Cody's saloon,
in New York, Jones then produced a
document, purporting to give the con-
stitution of the society up to 1895, and
also typewriter copies of the
Constitution and Ritual
of the Clan-na-Gael. Jones further
said that anyone convicted of dyna-
mite outrage was described in the
proceedings of the organization as a
"soldier Of Ireland y
The crossexamination of Jones did
not shake his evidence, but counsel for
Ivory submitted that it was not a case
to go to trial. S Ia;
Tho magistrate, however, emphati-
cally declared there were ample
/ grounds to send the case to trial and
Ivory was formally committed. /: