The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-16
Every Move Was to Get Cash,
Asserts Man Who Dis
posed Of Letters.
NEVER MADE A FREE OFFER
Suggested Sale to the Writers
and to the Manufacturers,
lie Charges.

Richard Barry, VINO was the agent
OF Col Martin II. Mulhall in the sale
for $4,000 OF the letters Mulhall oo-
tanned az a representative Of the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers and
who is now suing Muhall In New York
to recover half the sum for his services,
made statement to THE SrN last
night in which he branded as false
Mulhall's testimony before the Senate
lobby investigating committee on Mon
day that Mulhall sought to give the
letters away at one time but could not
get them published.
Mr.. Barry hopes to be called before
the committee to refute Mulhalrs tes-
timony. and said that because Of the
untrue statements made concerning him
on the witness stand the Senate COM
mittee should give him an opportunity
to defend himself.
Mr.. Barry said that the letter writ
ten by Mulhall to Perriton Maxwell.
editor OF Hedrst's Md0d-ine. on May 16
last, in which Mulhall said he was mot
seeking monetary consideration" for
his letters. was written TO make rec
ord and with the idea that 1t might
come in handy for the very purpose
for which II was used.
Mr.. Barry's statement is as follows:
The mistake l made with Mulhall
was in treating him like a gentleman.
dealt with him fairly and sQuarely and
he has repaid me by trying to beat ME
out Of the $1,000 ] earned In d!sposing
OF his material and by trying tn bedaub
my name before the Senate committee.
q, plOred harry to Take ~ Case.
1T vas his proposition repeatedly
made that | receive half the proceeds
from the sale Of his letters. He made
three special trips tn New York to i'm
plore me to take up his case with the
ma agazines and newspapers OF the coun-
try, and, all told. I spent three months
in sitting his chaotic and unbelievable
story into the semblance OF a connected
narrative such az II now Is.
His protestations about making his
revelations for the good OF humanity
are laughable. He could have gone to
the Ovcrman committee direct without
ever appearing in "a newspaper but ne
insisted on having the money befor"
he would part with any "f his docu-
ments
He started year ago. so he told
me- to try to sell his letters. AT first he
wanted only 81 900 or so from the Bal
timor. papers which he first ap-
preached. Some one directed him to
MIR. Hearst. and his price was then
$4,000. That is where ] got in touch
with him. being requested L. examine
i. Il - Ixn % -
NdOd sinr.
After Mr.. Hearst turned him down
he besought me to find another outlet
for his story. thought IL worth pub
hcation and tried To- dispose of it to
several magazines. hut his price was too
high. He had then dropped to $4,000.
offered Letters Rt Any Price.
"One day he came to me and im-
por-d me to get him any kind of n
price. however small. and offered me
half He said that hc was about to LOSE
his home by the foreclosure of mort
gage, and that he had spent all his
money in caring for his wife, whS was
i'm an insane asylum, whore she had
been driven by frenZied remorse over
his double dealings with and for the
National Association of Manufacturers.
| lent him enough money to pay his
hotel bill and keep him afioat while |
a abandoned the magazines, my natural
field. and tried to dispose of his material
tn the newspapers.
when President Wilson ma le his
celebrated utterances about the III.
sidious lobby ! was able To induce the
World to buy his letters for $4,000.
Their contract with him provides that
he shall pay me and | have con-
tract with him requiring that he pay
me half.
when the contract was signed he
was overjoyed. said that had rendered
him the greatest service of his life and
asserted that he would gladly pay me
my half and think that I had earned il.
"But in two weeks his head was
turned. AS the day for payment ap-
preached he grew cool, and finally
asked him IL he would have the world
make out two checks. one to me. He
flew into a rage. said that my contract
was no good, and that | would have to
rely on his sense OF honor to see me
through,
Bmrrs's Idea Of Nulhall's Honor.
II concluded that the sense Of honor
vi u Ulbn WHoS' iuhNtipu ia Iu'
Is the demonstration that he has none
was a slippery thing to which to cling.
Accordingly filed an attachment
against his purchase price. and am suing
him now to recover the $1,000 which he
is striving to withhold from me.
"Thc altruistic Mulhall. who declared
yesterday, under oath. that he had no
ulterior motive In disposing Of his let
ters. has drawn down his share OF the
purchase price and has refused to let
me have mine.
Three times Mulhall suggested that I
try to sell his letters to the American
Federation of Labor. | replied that !
had no interest in them except as they
would form the basis for IA revelation
of inside politics.
"Once Mulhall suggested that we could
make a huge fortune by selling the let
ters to their writer's. He may have
been joking In this proposition. I do not
know. At any rate I treated 1t with the
silence II deserved.
"At that time he asked me what !