Evening star., 1916-07-25
DR.. Ebb|TT TELLS
Of ILL TREATMENT
Recites Outrages Received in
Ireland at Hands of Eng
Iish Authorities.
NOT ALLOWED TO SEND
WORD TO AMBASSADOR
Kept 1ncommunicado Until Put
Aboard Liner for New York.
Personal Effects Looted.

Dr. Richard Ebbitt, a United States
citizen, deported from Ireland sum-
marily without charges being preferred.
as he claims. today presented his COM
plant to Wilbur J. Carr. director of the
consular service, at the State Depart
ment He was accompanied by Repre-
sentative Ashton C. Shallenberger Of
Nebraska, in whose district he had lived
for more than thirty years up to four
years ago.
DR.. Ebbitt is veterinary surgeon,
graduated in 1881 from the Royal Col
lege of Veterinary Surgeons Of England.
For thirty-three years he made his
home at Grand Island, Neb. For the last
four years he has been living at Old
castle. County Meath, Ireland. where he
established a good practice in his pro-
fession, while studying some animal
diseases and the Gaelic language.
He says he was deported without any
seized July IA, and locked up in the
police station at Oldcastle. The au-
thorities would not allow him to COM
municate with the United States consul
or with the United States ambassador.
he says They told me they can't do
Had to Leave AL His Property.
From the moment was seized until
I sailed away to this country. they
would not let me talk to any one or get
for moment out Of their sight. I
had to abandon my business, and it was
a good, profitable practice. I had to
leave all my property just as 1t was.
They took me to Liverpool and then
sent me to New York on the St. Paul I
had to pay my own fare to Liverpool
aoS to- New york All my protests y WeSe in
vain. Unoff1cially was told that was
suspected Of being In sympathy with the
Germans and Sim Feiners and that I
had written letters crticising the govern
ment Of England in Ireland.
THE matter is now up to the State De-
partment," he continued. "as 1 am recog-
nized there as an American citizen. Each
year I registered as an American citizen
preparing to return to this country and
realize my lifelong purpose Of living and
dying a good, dutiful, helpful American
citizen.
III American citizenship means any
thing as protection against injustice
and hardship abroad the State Depart
ment must act on my case"
His Philippine Relic Stolen.
Before being deported Dr. Ebbitt.s
place had been searched and a Moro
creese which he acquired while serving
in the Philippines was taken. This had
hung in his room under two United
States flags. The English military au-
thorities still retain this, although Sir
John Maxwell. in charge Of tho mill
tary department In Ireland. wrote In
answer to complaints Of DR.. Ebbitt that
this would be restored to him. It was
with a promise of returning this creese
that the military authorities enticed
DR.. Ebbitt to the barracks the day he
was seized and deported.
1T was May 20 that my place was
searched" said DR.. Ebitt "They found
some letters written to me about some
of my veterinary practice that they
examined very closely. thinking them
code messages Of some sort. They
found some Gaelic books that they
thought were German. They found
letters from Theodore Roosevelt and
President Wilson thanking me for
some shamrocks had sent them.
II understand that their attention
was first directed against me after an
article which 1 had written had been
printed in an Irish paper. In this
happened to mention that at my old
home in Nebraska there was q big
German colony; that had lived among
them and found them good neighbors
Then it was that I first noticed I was
being watched"