The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-01
SMELL OUT A SPY
Clan-na-Gael Men Convinced They
Are Doing This.
CAPTAIN DE vILLIERs SUSPECTED
Alleged Member Of StrnthcOna's
Horse Raved and Fnmed
Against tile British.
Hsw York sam Susciai Service

Providence, r. T., April 1.-There are Il
lot of members of the Gamma Gael in
this section who are wondering if Cap
tain Louis De Villiers of the South Afri-
can Republic and Lieutenant De VIII
liers, late of Strathcona's Horse, are the
same person.
Captain Louis De Villiers, as he called
himself, burst upon this community day
or two before st. Patrick's Day and
promptly made good with the leading
spirits of the Clan Gael here. He
was clad in khaki and had big sword
which he left at the baggageroom at the
railroad station. He was & great talker,
and the Irish patriots made quite a lion
of him. On Monday the captain addressed
large audience in the Auditorium at
Pawtucket, and he cursed the British
and Lord Kitchener in particular, with a
vehemence that startled even his audi
ence.
IF | saw Kitchener in hell" said he,
with flames all about him, and | knew
that one drop of water would quench the
fire, | would not lift Il finger to help him. -
This was about the way he talked dur
ing the short time that he was here and
those who heard him were sure that here,
at last, was a man who was not an Irish
man but who hated England with more
than an Irishman's hatred.
SO much impressed were the local Irish
men that they set about getting up big
demonstration in the captains honor, but
the second day of his stay he told his new
friends that he had received ''orders"
and must go. II was the general impress
sion that New Orleans was his place OF
destina ton.
Tell-Taie Picture.
Il was a bit surprising, however, that
the Boston papers of two days later
should contain the captains picture, a
story Of his stirring career in South Al
rlca, his capture by the British and sub
seduent escape, and also the announce
ment that the captain was in Boston,
khaki uniform and all, where he had made
himself known to the newspapers.
Now it happened that Richard J. Barry,
who had served with the Beers in South
Africa. was also in Boston at the time Of
the captains visit. Mr.. Barry wrote to
New York about him, and received the
following letter from the consulate Of the
Orange Free State in New York, giving
the record Of Louis De Villiers as follows:
Lieutenant de Villiers, late of Strathcona s
Horse, also kitchener's scouts, Hotel Impe-
rial, April Is, 1901 Veterinary lieutenant
with Lord Methuen, attached to Sixty second
K. ?. A. battery, on the march from Orange
river to the relief OF Kimberley, Belmont,
Enslin, Magersfontein; relief Of Wepener,
Bethlehem, Wolverspruit. Standerton; march
to kcmatipoort with Pole Carews and
French's brigade. Returned to Cape Colony
Victoria West; joined Kitchener's fighting
scouts fights Of Schist kraal, Kip Kraal and
Bijiespoort; left March t. 1901: arrived at
New York April II, 1901.
The letter was signed "Very truly
yours, Charles B. Pierce, consul general
SO the lrishmen who met the laxative
Captain De Villiers are wondering. If he
was not what he represented himself to
be they are curious as to his game