The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-22
MULHALL AND BARRY.

the sensation of the past fortnight
appear to have come from the journal
istic channel Mr.. Richard Barry is tn
gentleman who assorted these letters
prepared the story to go with them
and sold the stuff to the New Yorl
World for $4,000. Mr. Barry explains
that Mulhall put the letters in hi
charge and was anxious TO have hin
sell them, either for a political sensa
tion or to use them by way of black
mail, Barry states that Mulhall agreed
to pay him half of the amount received
from the sale Of the letters, for hi:
work in sitting out from the great mass
the letters chosen to be printed, and
preparing the story for the press. But
when it came to the division Of the
money, Mulhall baked and refused TO
honor Barry's claim; thereupon Barry
attached half the money that was TO be
paid Mulhall and has brought suit to
recover $4,000, the half of the purchase
money, claiming this half of the money
under his contract with Mulhall, Mr..
Barry's story is printed in the New
York Times as follows:
The mistake I made with Mulhan was
In treating him like a gentleman. ! dealt
with him fairly and souarelv at all times.
and he has repaid me by trying TO beat
me out OF the $4,000 | earned IN dispos-
Ing OF his material and by trying to be-
dauo my name before the Senate com
1t was his proposition repeatedly made
| mat receive half OF the proceeds from
The sale of his letters, He made three
nnp a twin
to take up his case with the magazines
and newspapers OF the country. and, all
told. spent three months In sitting his
chaouc and unbelievable story into the
Seinblance OF connected narrative such
as II Is now.
His protestatIons about making his
revelations for the good OF humanity
are laughable. He could have gone to the
Overman committee direct without ever
appearing in newspaper, but he in
sisted on having the money before he
would part with any Of his documents.
ne started a year ago. so he told me-
TO try TO sell his letters. AT first he
wanted only thousand or so from the
n%n6 DaIsimoGe nhoT papers. whom he first ap-
Hearst. and his price was then $50 600
Inat Is where | got In touch with him.
oelns requested to examine his material
tor the editor OF Hearst's magazine.
After Mr., Hearst turned him down he
oesought me TO find another outlet for
his story l 0thought it worth publica-
ton, and tried to dispose of 1t to several
magazines. but his price was 100 high
He had then dropped to $4,000 "
one day he came to me and !mplored
me to get him any kind Of a price, how
eyer eyer small and offered me half lie de-
home by the foreclosure Of a mortgage
and that he had spent ell OF his money
IN caring, for his wife, who was In an IN
sane asylum where she had been driven
by frenzied remorse over his double deal
ings with and Tor the National Associ-
alton OF Manufacturers. l loaned him
enough money 10 pay his hotel bill and
magazines, my natural field, and tried to
dispose Of his material to the newspa-
pers
When President Wilson made his cele-
lobby was able TO induce the World
10 buy his letters for 100000 Their con-
tract with him provides that he shall pay
me. and | have a contract with him re-
quirine that he pay me half
When The contract was signed he was
oyerjoyed, declared that l had rendered
him the greatest service of his lie. and
half and that | had earned It,
But in two weeks his head was turned
AS the day for payment approached he
would have the World make out two
checks, one TO me. He flew into rage,
declared my contract was no good, and
that l would have to rely on his sense
u.
/ concluded that the sense OF honor OF
a man whose chief function in life is the
demonstration that he has none was a
slippery thing to which TO cling. Accord
ingiy ] filed an attachment against his
purchase price. and am suing him now
10 recover the $4,000 which he is striving
TO withhold from me
The altruistc MulRal, who declared
yesterday under oath that he had no ul-
terror motive In disposlng of his letters.
has drawn down MS share OF the pur-
chase price and has refused TO let me
Three times Mulnau suggested that
try. TO sell his letters TO the American
Federation Of Labor; I replied that I
nad nc interest IN them except as they
would form the basis for a revela ton OF
inside politics.
Once Mulhall suggested that we could
make huge fortune by selling the let
jokins IN this proposition. l do not
know. AT any rate. 1 treated It with the
silence l1nS 1T II desc deserved A. that time ne
gnS,ld asEsd me me, W9a1 thought the \. A NJ
ters I replied that / had no idea He |
asked me II / thought they would pay |
$4,000. ] replied that that was as good !
a figure. 10 guess at as any other, ny |
sense of humor being reached by that |
time.
II may have been that little converse
ton: purely jocular. which Munchausen |
Muihall referred TO as my proposal TO |
ola ckmail the officers OF the ~ A NJ.
Mulhalls other aspersion is that l am
I tipster ! never sold a tip in nv life
IN this instance l wrote half the MulhaiI
story as IL appeared in the World, and
vas paid by that paper to initiate It's
STAN into the intricacles of the letters |
md TO instruct us man, Siebold in their
II ! We're a tipster the World
would have paid me tip.
Mulhal. while on the witness stand on
Monday; read a letter he had written
asst spring TO Perrlton Maxwell. editor OF
iearsts magazine in which he offered
ne y. \. NJ. correspondence free Re
this letter as evidence that his
'uolca tlon OF the correspondence had not
leen for a pecuniary reason When Mr. |
3arry was questioned about the letter he
aid =
II know positively that MulhalI would
lever have given the letters for puhlica- |
ion TO anyone without price; that II
lr. Hearst would have agreed TO have
AIKEN him into his employ for an indef-
lite period he might have been willing
o let the letters go in return, but other
ylse he never would have parted with
hem"
Mr.. Barry told much that was interest
ne about his relations with MulhaU Tho
nan. he said bad during the ten wears
+ his connection with the National AS
oc!ation OF Manufacturers collected ap
roXimately 81. 900 letters. many of then,
caring the signature OF men prominent
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