The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-19
IVORY NOW ON TRIAL.
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO
DESTROY LIFE AND PROPERTY.
Strong Effort Being Made to Con-
meet the Prisoner With lyman,
Kearney and Haines.

I Kearney and Haines.
London. Jan. 1S.-The trial of Edwar
J. Ivory, alias Edward Bell. of Ney
: York. who was arrested in Glasgow OIL
= September Is last, charged with con
spiracy to destroy life and propert,
by the use CT dynamite, was begun il
the central criminal court, Old Bailey
/ this morning. Justice Hawkins pre-
| siding
Ivory's counsel comprised Messrs.
F. Taylor, e Matthews and Creild
weilder. Solicitor General Flndlay. So
licitOr Sutton, Q. c., Chief Gill and Mr.
Bodkin appeared for the prosecution
on behalf of the treasury. Mr.. ]. r
Garter, second secretary of the United
States embassy and United States Con
sul-General Patrick A Collins were
present in court. Ivory was we'll
dressed and appeared to be perfectly
composed. He pleaded not guilty.
After the prisoners plea had been
entered, Solicitor General Findlay pro-
ceeded TO narrate the events leading
up to the arrest of Ivory in Glasgow,
beginning from the time ne left New
York
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to the Introduction in the case for the
present prosecution, of anything that
| had taken place outside the jurisdic-
! ton of the United Kingdom, which
was calculated TO operate to the preju-
! dice of the prisoner.
Judge Hawkins ovel ruled the objec-
ton.
Mr. Findlay then stated to the court
and jury that there were two charges
against the prisoner. The first OF these
charges. he said, was that of Conspir
aCy with lyman and others to cause
explosions endangering life, and the
second charge was that of conspiracy
with the same parties TO cause eXplO
sicns which would endanger property.
Mr. Findlay went on. TO trace Ivory's
movements and actions after his ar
rival in Great Britain ana called at
tentiOn to the fact of his having en-
deaVored to find certain men whom
he could engage to actually cause the
explosions. He next spoke of the pris-
Oner's letters in which he said the
words finding stock meant finding
agents. These letters, he commended
showed that the prisoner was acting
in concert with lyman and Kearney.
The solicitor general proceeded to read
another letter in which the prisoner
had written these words: Things
lcck very bad for me as regards Lon
don stock; so much so that Billy Burt
won't do
This letter. he said, proved that Ivory
had been engaged in making inquiries
in London similar to those he had
made in Glasgow in an attempt to
engage men to cause the explosions.
Counsel then read a letter written to
Ivory by lyman in which the writer
said: We must have self-respecting
men. not men who are losing their
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capable Of doing the business, person
ally, in any event.
Mr. Findlay, continuing his argu-
ment. said that the evidence that the
prosecution would produce would link
Ivory with the doings of Kearney in
Antwerp and also show that the pris-
oner belonged to the order of United (
Irishmen. He would also bring evil /
dence to show that Ivory had attended I
a secret meeting of the United Irish
men in Chicago. and that he had left |
the United States in concert with Ty- /
nan. Kearney and Haines.
At the conclusion Of the opening ar
gument by Mr.. Findlay. the taking of (
testimony was begun.
The first witness called to the stand /
was Julius Opholser, a waiter en-
ployed in the Victory hotel in Am
sterdam. Opholser produced the reg
ster of the Victoria hotel, showing the
arrival on Aug. so, 1886 Of an American
who gave the name of wilkins He
was accompanied by man supposed
% be d German.
Clerks employed in the st. Pancras
station hotel in London identified the
prisoner as having arrived at the hotel
IN Aug. 26 last and registered under
he name of Edward Bell.
A chemist named Peckham identified
worry as having applied TO him for the
of a large quantity of sui
,huric acid.
Thomas Charles Jones, chemist,
estified that Ivory had called at his
'lace of business and asked to pur-
base p pounds of chlOrate Of potas-
iUm, saying he wanted it for the pur-
ose of making experiments.
Solicitor Taylor, for the defense.
ross-examined the witness with great
everity as TO the identity of the pris-
ner as the man who had called at his
laboratory. :
Associated with the prisoners coun- :
ell, which also includes Solicitor !
harles Russell, son of the lord chief r
lstice of England, is Mr. John F. Me
atyre, formerly assistant district at r
orney of New York county, who was =
ngaged by IvOry'S friends to come to :
ngland and assist in his defense. It +
as been said that Mr. Mcintyre would !,
erhaps be permitted to plead in be- =
alf of Ivory. but il is now known that =
is action in court viii be limited to :
ding the other counsel for the de- I.
nse in an advisory capacity. Mr.. Il
cIntyre watched the proceedings =
osely. and occasionally conversed y
it'll the other lawyers as the case e
ent on. IL
Witnesses form Antwerp. were called i
testify when Mr.. Taylor interposed. II
ying that no sufficient foundation =
Id been laid by the prosecution upon y
hich to show concerted purpose or II
ton on the mart of Ivory with the d
her alleged conspirators. Ivory and W
e others, he admitted, had been seen n
linking together. and there had also u
en- an exchange of letters between o.
e prisoner and lyman. but these cir W
instances furnished no evidence of D,
e existence of a conspiracy VI
The admission of the Antwerp testi g.
my was postponed. al
rhe manager of the Hotel Havre. at st
avre testified to the arrival of four II
IN at his hotel. who were supposed to Il
We been Ivory and his three alleged IS
sociates. al
The court then adjourned. ne
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