New-York tribune., 1918-07-16
He Told Her She Had
Right to Register Under
Assumed Name
Visited Her at Hotel
Irish Agitator Ends Testimony
at the Trial Of His
Brother

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brother before Judge Augustus n,
Hand in tho United States District
Cpurt
Els parting words were a reiteration
of his devotion to the United States
aad 3 defiance to the government in
rs attempts to implicate him in Ger
man intrigucs with which his nalne
has been associated.
Early II the days proceedings this
angle of inquiry was opened up when,
assuming his cross-examination of the
irish agitator. Earl B. Barnes, Assist
ant United States Attorney, introduced
che name of Nine Marie de Victorica
The woman whose appearances at the
trial have caused so much comment.
and who has been characterized by the
Department of Justice as one of the
most dangerous e1nissaries of the
haisar still in this country.
Were you acquainted with her, Mr
OIeA1y ?S asked the prosecutor.
There was q long pause daring
which the witness fingered the but
fnns of his waistcoA1 and ga2ad intent
y al tbs ceiling Tnen ne replied:
THAT woman came TO my ofhce on
business
She bore q letter OF introduction, he
said, from Emil Ripper, whom OLAaty
admitted having known for long tine,
AND the nature OF her business was
strictly private After an interview
O'LeAry undertook her case, but with
a ~
talner- The date Of this transaction
the witness placed as some time ia
February or March, 1917"
Subsequently he s"ore that be ad-
vised Nine Vlctorica she had right
20 register 1t a hotel under al assumed
name This she did, using the name
Where's, and once o 'Leary called on
Der at her hotel, he admitted. while she
Zas so registered He had also, he
said, made out memorandum on her
case, which 1t was intimated referred
20 al application for divorce.
When MI Barnes had concluded his
cross-examination Colonel Thomas B.
Fielder, counsel for the defence, pro-
dnred this memorandum, evidently
sith a view to giving the witness 4
chance TO explain his relations with
he German woman This, however,
O'Leary refused to do.
"Iou have no right" he said. "to
question me now about matter that
Is to be used against me when, in
sittle while, shall be on trial for nv
life" Then he hastily stuffed the
memorandum, which had been handed
aim for Identification, into an inside
pocket
1--WE been looking for this for long
time" he commented "Im glad l got
i at last"
AS on his former appearances.
O'Leary was warned several times that
he court had no wish to listen to
speeches; but despite his evident
weariness, his feelings on three or four
occasions got somewhat the better of
him
aI am an Trishman in bone and
blood" he said at She end of one of
these diatribes, "and l cant help feel
lng the way | do about Ireland"
Il thought the other day you said
you were an American" returned the
government attorney.
AReal lrishmen make the best kind
Of Americans famed back Jeremiah
OIeary. at was the Irishmen who
led from British oppression who
helped to win the War of Independence
can give you the whole list of them
+ you wish Here!" he cried, bran
dishing aloft a green bound book. ais
The jail record of John Mitchel-the
grandfather of the man you tried to
make me insult the other day, Mr..
Barnes, when I said John Purroy
Mitchell was degenerate Irishman.
What meant was that he did not
agree with the sentiments of his
grandfather, who did not fear jail so
long as he stood true to his convic-
tions- John Mitchell was put in jail
unlawfully, just "a | have been For
am no criminal, Mr.. Barnes, and you
have no right to keep me in Jail. No;
neither has the government any right
to keep me in jail Just because 7 want
to see Ireland free"
Another TRADE against the newspa-
pers was called forth when Colonel
Fielder asked the witness if it were
reasonable, at the time his agitations
try entered the war, TO favor the Ger
man cause
AThe newspapers made it so appear ~
he answered bitterly. Fright here in
New York all the papers were opposed
to Irish freedom except the Hearst
papers, which were non-committal
sometimes and at no time showed any
grasp of the real situation"
The Irish Bazaar, he said, was mod
elled on other bazaars that had been
staged by our pro British friesds,"
WIZ ga" bO idi III III lIihlHR the RIner1-
can flag with the flag of "othcr ma
tions-" And he read long list of the
patrons of that affair as an evidence of
it's unassaiable reputability
Jeremiah OIeary also yesterday
went az greater length than ever before
into the basis of his objections to the
Carnegie peace movements, which, he
said were merely British, French
and American alliance. 1t was, he an
nounced, in conjunction with the son
of John Bigelow, the friend of Lincoln,
that he launched the American Truth
Society to oppose this.
OIeary said he never had intended
to send his notorious letter to Bernard
Ridder- His wife, he testified, when
he showed it to her, advised against it;
but, in the meantime, unknown to him,
IT had been delivered by an office asso-
ciate-
And that was how that got OUT he
said
To-day. in defending himself against
the charge that he helped Jeremiah
to flee the jurisdiction of the New York
courts, John OIeary has six additional
witnesses to call. He then purposes to
take the stand himself, after which op-
posing counsel will sum up. Indica-
tions now are that the case will go to