New-York tribune., 1918-06-22
you could get rid of lawyer that you
were afraid to have come mere and try
a case against YOU,

you could get rid of lawyer that you
were afraid to have come mere and try
case against you.
II told him you had misconceived
your purpose as public prosecutor
and that you considered your ambition
first, not the question of the guilt or
innocence of man who was charged
with very serious offence"
His hearing before the grand jury,
he argued the point long and heatedly
with the prosecutor.
Aside from this explanation of his
own difficulties and the introduction
of the Wise letter, the crowd that
jammed the courtroom heard little
that was new in the history Of Jere-
miah OLeary. Step by step, point
by point, the government attorney led
him over the journev of the eighteen
hours preceding his departure from
this city on May Z.
Only One Contradiction
Despite the best efforts of Mr..
Barnes, however, O'Leary was en-
trapped into only one contradiction Of
the story he had previously detailed
and that was very minor one. The
old suit of clothes and the "rattan
suitcase" he admitted having taken
from his brothers were, he testified,
found by him upstairs in his brothers
closet, and not in the kitchen, as he
had at first said. For the rest, he
remembered dates, hours and distances
with an almost uncanny accuracy.
Also on cross-examination he en-
phatically denied having taken any
suggestion concerning the line of his
testimony from "The New York Amcri-
can," as Mr.. Barnes the day before had
intimated might be the case.
Jocularly referring to Mr.. Hearst's
local morning publication as an cal
legged newspaper" he said:
Nobody would dare tell me what to
swear to-"
His brother John, he said, would
never sit silent in court and permit
him to swear to anything that was not
true. And in the same connection he
once again emphasized Johns entire
innocence OF any completely in his
(Jeremiah's) fight.
Basis Of Propaganda
During recess the Prosecuting At.
torney announced that he did not wish,
in the course OF the action against
John, to enter any more deeply than
was absolutely necessary into the de-
tails of Jeremiah's case. He did, how
ever, go to considerable pains to show
that the basis of Jeremiah's whole
propaganda had been the fear that this
country, in the phrase of Mr.. Barnes,
would be made British colony"
All this has been extensively set
forth in the literature and speeches of
O'Leary's now defunct American Truth
Society, and the witness readily ad
mitted it,
II wanted to call the attention of
the American people to the fact that
there was well-defined propaganda to
make the.United States an integral mart
of the British Empire"
Cecil Rhodes's will proclaimed Tho
beginning of this intent, he exnlained
and the various public activities of An
drew Carnegie were the sign of Amer
lca's acceptance of it.
WhaS was the name of your publ
cation, Mr.. O'Leary?" asked the prose
cutor, as a final question.
The witness leaned forward, His
features relaxed into broad grin.
BULL" he beloved, with an intona-
tion none could mistake.
At 4:05 o'clock he passed from the
stand and was Immediately taken back
to the Tombs.
After that the defence introduced
garage keeper, Paul Goldhammer. who.
asked what was the reputation of Ar.
thur Lyons, returned:
he has general reputation of be-
ing roughneck."
Goldhammer added that Lyons had
never paid $28 garage bill for which
o'Leary had given him the money.