Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-06-16
Editor of the Bull Under In
dlctment in New York, Is
Captured by Federal Off,
ciaIs at Sara, Washington.
MUST ANSWER SERIOUS
CHARGES BEFORE COURT
Is Alleged to Planned to Bring
About Wholesale Destruction
of Property to Hamper
America in War,

New Yor June 15.-Jeremiah A
OLeary, a fugitive from justice since
the eve Of the date set for his trial
on charge of violating the espionage
act by publication OF seditious matter
in the anti-British periodical Bull and
later indicted for conspiracy to com
init traeson was arrested at Sara,
WASHINGTON, and is on his way back to
New York in the custody of federal
agents, 1t was announced here tonight
O'Leary was found Wednesday in
the remote hamlet in Washington,
which is about twenty-seven miles
north of Portland, Oregon. No details
were made public concerning the pur-
suit.
Announcement of his capture marks
another dramatic episode in q case
which already has had many sensa-
tional developments. His brother,
John j. OLeary and Arthur l.. Lyon, a
business associate, were placed on
trial in federal court yesterday under
an indictment charging them with
having aided him to escape from jur-
isdiction of the court.
After jeremiah O'Leary failed to
appear for trial on the charge against
him of publishing alleged seditious
matter, he was indicted by the fed
eral grand jury on June Z, with four
other Americans and two subjects OF
the German empire, on charge Of
conspiracy to commit treason and
conspiracy to commit espionage
Sensational Operations.
Emphasis was lent to the indict-
ments by the assertion of federal in
vestigators that the operations of the
defendants were the most sensation
al undertaken by German agents
since the beginning of the war.
The defendants, who included one
woman, Madame Maria X. De fic-
torica, were accused, among other
things. of conspiring to send abroad
information of military value, plan
ming the destruction of American
piers and transports with fire bombs,
seeking the destruction of quick silver
mines in this country to hamper the
manufacture of munitions and as
sisting Germany by feeding the
flames 'of revolt in Ireland.
Piling sensation upon sensation, the
government sprang q complete sur
prise yesterday at the trial of John
]. O'Leary, indicted on a charge
of conspiracy to aid his brother
jeremiah to escape arrest when AS
sistant United States District Attorney
Earl b. Barnes produced Lyon as a
government witness, and charged that
he had accompanied jeremiah as far
as Phoenix, Ariz.
Holding the attention of the court
as he revealed the minute knowledge
the government had of Jeremiah's
actions since he left New York, Mr..
Barnes never dropped hint of a
still more startling fact--that the
fugative had already been taken into
custody in a far corner Of the coun-
try.
Feared q Crane Up"
Mr.. Barnes told the court that it
would be shown jeremiah, before
his disappearance had expressed to
his brother John the fear that he
would be FRAMED up on cnargeS
connecting him with "a German spy
plot" According to Mr.. Barnes, Jere-
miah said that Madame De Victorica
was addicted to drugs and that he
was afraid she would ''open up and
tell everything unless she was given
her DOPE"
Mr.. Barnes said O'Leary left New
York for st. Louis on May Z, attired
in old clothing furnished him by his
brother John 80 as to look like
bum"
Mr.. Barnes charged that John
bought two tickets for st. Louis In
the Hudson terminal on the night
of May and gave them to jeremiah
and Lyon, who boarded train at the
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