Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-05

Of Patriotic lrishmen.
New York, February 4.-Edward J..
Ivory, who was arrested in Glasgow in
September last, on a charge of completely
with oeher persons in a dynamite con-
spiracy in England, arrived this after
noon, by the White Star steamer Majestic.
y steamer with 500 delegates from the
Irish National Alliance. the Ancient Or
der Of Hiborniaus. and other Irish organi-
cations. met the Majestic on her arrival
at Quarantine, and took Ivory, District
Attorney Mcintyre and party off the At
lantic liner.
Ivory. when he and his friends got on
board the excursion steamer, was re-
ceived with salvos of cannon, and cheer
ing almost intcrminable, from the recep-
ton delegation.
President William Lyman. Of the Irish
National Alliance. welcomed Ivory back,
speaking in part as follows:
Here is a man who has gone through
the crucible and suffered every indignity
that England through her Scotland Yard
detectives and her informers, could in
hict He has come out of the terrible
ordeal unscathed. We greet him as the
only Irlshman who mas ever escaped
without unheard Of suffering from the
hands Of Great Britain"
After Mr.. Lyman had congratulated
Lawyer Mcintyre upon his successful
work for Ivory, the latter made a short
speech IN which he said that every
effort had been MADE by Englands de-
tCclivcs and some of his counsel, to in
dUce him TO plead guilty to the charges
made against him.
"Eut fo~ thc fact that Mr.. Mcintyre
came over to defend me and also for the
dread oC American public opinion, 1
should have been he said, convicted
and sentenced to Imprisonment for a long
torm-perhaps like other men-driven in
saue-on evidence manufactured by Eng
lands informers."
When the committees steamer returned
70 New York city Ivory and Mcintyre
held q reception at the headquarters Of
the Irish National Alliance.
Ivory recomted the experience OF his
prison life since his arrest i'm September
last He had spent four months and eight
Glvs I'm prison. and for three months and
twenty-thrle days had been in solitary
confinement getting only one hours exer-
else every day.
The day after I was arrested said
Ivory. Scotland Yard detectives called 10
see mo in my cell. They told me that my
friends lyman. Haines and Keaney, had
also been arrested. as well as six other per-
sons whose names they would not mention.
They told mo that two of the other men
arrested had split on the whole business
and that my only. chance of escape from
Imprisonment for twenty years was to
spit too
81 told them 7 did not understand what
they were talking about, but just before
my trial came off they came TO me with the
same lying stories. I paid no attention to
them. I knew that unless the most dia-
bcHcal pcriurers were brought up against
me could not be convicted. l am glad 10
be at home again
lit is said that you received $4,000 as
compensation for your arrest"
"Compensa,ion for my arrest? No;
score that up for old Ireland. / have yet
to know what a farthing of English blood
money means. Compensate me? That is
another of the many ready-made yarns
carried by Scotland Yard"
Mn. Mcintyre also stated that there was
no truth .n the compensation story. one
Of the officers Of the Majestic told a repor-
ter at Quarantine that two OF the Scotland
Yard detectives had made the passage
across unknown 90 Ivory.
They are the best men in London" ;his
officer said "Ore of them says he has in
suucuons TO follow Ivory indefinitely"