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Show JOHN J. fl'LEM ON TRIAL INJW YORK: Prosecuting Attorney Tells How Jeremiah A. Escaped. NEW YORK, June 14. Jeremiah A. O'Leary, tho New York lawyer and Sinn Fein leader under indictment here for complicity in two German espionage espion-age and treason plots, left New York for St. Louis on May 7 attired in old clothes, "so as to look like a bum." This assertion was part of Assistant District Attorney Barnes' opening statement at the trial in federal court today of O'Leary 's brother, John J. O'Leary, and Arthur L. Lyons on charge of conspiring to thwart justice by helping help-ing him to escape. O'Leary fled on the eve of his trial for publishing alleged seditious anti-conscription anti-conscription articles in the magazine Bull, of which he was formerly editor. Barnes told the court it would be shown that Jeremiah O'Leary had expressed ex-pressed fear that he would be" "framed up" on charges connecting him with "a German spy plot," and that Ma- dame K. De Victorica, the woman named in the espionage and treason plots, would "open up and tell everything every-thing unless she was given her dope.'' He said the woman was addicted to the use of drugs, the prosecutor declared. de-clared. Arthur L. Lyons' connection with the alleged justice obstruction conspiracy became known todav when it was revealed that he had been named in a secret indictment returned last Monday. He was arrested that clay in Phoenix, Ariz., bv department of justice agents. He had accompanied accompan-ied O'Leary, by whom he hau been employed em-ployed as a confidential investigator from this city to St. Louis, Barnes asserted. as-serted. The clothes in which O'Leary made his flight were given him by his brother, John J., it was statod. |