New-York tribune., 1918-07-13
O'Leary Willis
Admits Most
Of fCharges
Sim Feiner, Accused of
Treason, Falters on
Cross Examination

The government for the first time
yesterday unmasked it's batteries
against Jeremiah A OLeary, Irish agi-
tator and American citizen, now under
indictment on charge of treason
against the United States.
All afternoon Assistant United States
Attorney Earl Barnes piled up the
counts against the Sim Feiner.
"Did you know Sir Roger Easement.
the Irish agitator hanged for high trea-
son in the City Of London?
Did you attempt to start propa-
ganda paper here to be called True
American and to be run by Sir Roger
Easement from ambush?
did you publicly liken Sir Roger
Easements expedition into Germany
to Benjamin Franklin's expedition to
France?
Did You call on George Sylvester
Niereck, editor Of The Fatherland,' to
solicit his aid in carrying on an Irish
American press bureau?
Did you try to secure funds for
your press work through Won Bernstortf
and Count Dumba, the Austro- -Hunga-
rian Ambassador?
Did you seek an introduction to
DR.. Heinrich Albert, paymaster of the
German propagandists in this coun-
try?"
Were anonymous contributions to
Your American Truth Society subsc-
quently made by DR.. Heinrich Albert ?"
Admits Nearly All Accusations
Like revolver shots the questions
cracked out. Under the volley of them
Jeremiah OLeary shifted, fdgetted,
cropped his head, ran his hands
Through his hair, hcsitated, begged
for time to think But in the end.
either directly or indirectly, he admit
ted practically every accusation mar
shalled in the District Attorneys long
list.
With folded arms and tightly COM
pressed lips he listened, too, to the
prosecutors reading of fiery extracts
from his own writings and speeches.
IF Ireland were at Helgoland TO-
day.. instead OF where she is, there
would be no England. Germany then
would have an ally that, unlike Italy,
would not forsake her"
Nov Is the time for Germans and
lElshmen to cement their friendship"
All the world knows now that the
stories Of German atrocities in Bel
GUM are falsiiicd stories"
"lf the United States should. nv any
cn1ncQ n
would do something far more inhuman
IMAM anything the German submarine
warfare has done, when war can be
avoided by SIMPLY ordering American
citizens 20 keep off belligerert muni
tion ships"
"Dld you say that?" the prosecutor
challenged as he completed each ex-
~ (lIe. ana IN every case Jeremiah
Once, when the District A.tornev tto
was reading a poem of the witnesses
composition--a long parody of "Colum-
oia, Gem of the Ocean" which bristled
with bitter denunciation of Americas
part IN the war-OIeary, from the
stand, sternly corrected him when he
read the word breast" where il
should have been "heart."
Admits Ridder Letter
Later. when asked il the phrase
That whelp Mitchell" read from his
notorious letter to Bernard Ridder. re-.
tered to the late Major Mitchell.
y OLeary answered:
You know very we'll whom if re-
ferred to, Mr. Barnes. It referred ~
the grandson of the great Fenian
leader, John Mitchell"
This was the letter which, made puh-
Ic by Postmaster General Burleson
some time ago. contained the phrase az
would rather take gun and shoot nv
self than fight alongside OF any Brit
ish -" together with an envenomed
arraignment Of the American and pro
iessedly loyal German-American atti
tude.
During its reading, which occupied
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