The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1896-11-20
WAS A BRITISH SPY
6ENsATioN SPRUNG AT THE HEAR
ING OF THE IVORY CASE.

SENSATION SPRUNG AT THE HEAR
ING OF THE IVORY CASE.
A Witness Says He Was Sent to America
Under instructions and Joined Irish
Societies = Testifies in Court to the
sinner Workings" of the Physical
Force Movement.
LONDON, Nov. 14.-The final examina-
ton Of Edward ]. 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 on at Bow street on
Friday. ever aimee lie was brought to
London after his arrest at Glasgow
some two months ago on the charge of
being concerned with P. J. lyman,
kearney, Haines and others in a con-
tpiracy to blow up public and other
buildings by dynamite Hitherto the
testimony has been of the usu;l
monotonous police court description,
but during the day the crown, repre-
sented by G. E. Gill, = ung sensation
in the shape OF the
Testimony of Government Spy,
known only as "Jones,'' q native Of
Armagh, Irela>sd, who seems to have
succeeded i'll becoming member OF
secret Irish organizations in New York,
''under Instructions and to have pos
sesssd himself Of secrets of the Clan
L;;- Gel association.
| ivory has hitherto behaved in a most
unconcerned manner, as if confident of
acquittal, but when Jones was placed
| in the witness box the prisoners face
showed CONSERVATION. He was COM
pletely staggered by the appearance of
Jones under such circumstances and
great though suppressed excitement
prevailed i'll court when a rumor 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 tho
treasury department, Jones said he was
a 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 and learned of the existence
of the Irish Nationalists organization.
Continuing, Jones said that con in
structions' he joined the organization,
and was initiated into a camp known
as 'sThe 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.
| 4La+ 1,o
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 witnes:
also testified, We're contributed to rev
olutionary 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 sale
that while on his way to the Chicago
convention of 1895, Kearney introduced
the prisoner Ivory to the witness, as {
''brother." P. ]. lyman and O'Dono
van Rosa, according to Jones, were
present, and lyman said that Ivory be
longed to his '.camp," and had beel
known to him in Dublin previous t.
1882.
His Visit to Chicago.
Continuing his account of his visit t
3 Chicago, Jones said he arrived there OF
Sept. % of last year, and was met a
the railroad station by ST. John Gaff
ney. He stayed at McCoys hotel
, where the committee of the secret or
ganization met. Ivory, Jones stated
attended the meeting at which tn
names were chosen to be submitted t
the public convention as officers of tn
snew movement" the object being tina
an open movement might be controlle
as it is, according to Jones, by secre
organization III another portion @
his testimony, Jones said that he say
Ivory two or three weeks before tn
latter left America, in Cody's salool
in New York, Jones then produced
document, purporting to give the con
stitution of the society ap to 1895: au
also typewritten copies of the