Mower County transcript., 1896-11-18
WAS A BRITISH SPY
SENSATION SPRUNG At THE HEAR
ING OF THE IVORY CASE.

OENoA ION oVNO<N0 ~ t0e 7cNU-
ING OF THE IVORY CASE.
Under Instructions aud Joined Irish
Societies 49, TestiAes In Court to the
Sinner Workings" of the Physioal
Force Movement.
LONDON, Nov. 14.-The final examina-
&ion Of Edward J. IveFy, alias Edward
Bell, the saloonkeeper of New York
and alleged dynamiter, at Bow street
police court developed into a sensation
equal to tho excitement caused by tho
revelations of the spy, lie Caron, some
years ago.
The weekly examinations of Ivory
have been going ON at Bow street on
Friday, ever since he was brought to
London after his arrest at Glasgow
some two months ago ON the charge of
being concerned with P. ]. 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 @. E, Gin, sprung sensation
In the shape Of the
Testnony Of = Governments 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 sec cts of the Clan.
na-Gael 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 in court when rumor was
circulated that tho 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, e1claiming that It was of the
utmost importance that nothing should
be allowed to transpire to identify tbs
wit9sss in the future,
e Spy q the British Government.
Replying to questions upon the part
of Mr.. Gill. who prosecuted for the
treasury department., Jones said he was
q 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 Roland in New
York city and learned of the existence
of the Irish Nationalists' organization.
Continuing, Jones said that ION 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
a new camp, which was called 1.-The
Nally club
1r..+;no. NJ tho NToat Socrat Order
Jones further stated that he was
elected treasurer Of the Nally club,
whose meetings, it appears, were of the
most secret description, 1.-THE district
record" being burned after being read.
Part Of the subscriptions, the witness
also testified, were contributed to rev.
olutionary fund and calls were made
for money tospay for the celebration of
the dehth 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 1896, Kearney introduced
the prisoner Ivory to the witness, as a
"brother." P. J. lyman and O'Dono-
van Rosa, according to Jones, were
preSe!lt, duu 4yudu sd1u CuaI AVOTy w.
longed to his camp" and had been
known to him in Dublin previous to
1884,
His Visit to Chicago.
Continuing his account Of his visit to
Chicago, Jones said he arrived there on
Sept. 22 of last year, and was met at
the railroad station by St. John Gaff-
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
m 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 1896, sslG
also typewritten copies Of the