Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-19 | Page 1 | [Illegible] may be O'leary's Defense

low m be C1EMFE1E Attorney Says Sinn Feiner Is "Replica of Harry Thaw." NEW YORK, June 18. An apparent attempt to lay the foundation for the defense- for Jeremiah O'Leary, the Sinn Fein leader, charged with conspiracy to commit treason, was made in the federal courts today during the trial of his brother, John, who is charged with aiding aid-ing the former editor of "Bull" to es-cape. es-cape. O'Leary arrived today from Sara, Wash., where he was grabbed from a chicken ranch by federal agents. He was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the two indictments. At the same time witnesses wit-nesses at the trial of John O'Leary were telling of Jeremiah's mental state. Arthur Lyons, Jeremiah's traveling companion, on the trp west, who turned government witness, described him as "very restless and nervous, wjth no fixed mental condition." When James R. Speer, a New York lawyer, who occupied offices with Jeremiah Jere-miah O'Leary, was asked on the stand his opinion of Jeremiah's mental state, he replied that he "looked upon him as a replica of Hatry Thaw." Before he was placed in his cell, Jeremiah Jere-miah told newspapermen that he had had six weeks' rest,, adding that he needed it. for he was "in pretty bad shape." Details dt Jeremiah's flight were told in court by Lyons. After stating that there never was any agreement or understanding under-standing between Jeremiah and John O'Leary that the former was running away from the jurisdiction of the court, he asserted that Jeremiah had asked him on May 3 to accompany him to Reno, Nev., to try a divorce case. John O'Leary bought two tickets for St. Louis, Lyons said, and when Jeremiah Jere-miah said goodbye, he told his brother he would be back for his trial. After arriving at St. Louis, he said he and O'Leary Anally made their way to Portland, Ore., where Jeremiah said he was going to buy a farm. After purchasing pur-chasing an automobile, and paying for it partly with Liberty bonds, he said O'Leary took him to Sara, where the chicken farm on which O'Leary was captured cap-tured was bought in Lyons's assumed name "Thomas A. Corbett." After they had ta.ken possession, Lyons said, he wished to return to New York immediately, but "Jerry" wanted him to stay, the place being "well stocked up." On May 27, Lyons said, he showed O'Leary an article in a New York paper regarding O'Leary's indictment, with four more Americans and two Germans, on charges of conspiracy to commit trea- (Oontinued on Page Eleven.) isn ii be O'LEARY'S GEFEfiSE (Continued from Page One.) son and espionage, and the fugitive said he "expected it," and spoke of being a "martyr for Irish freedom." . He said he finally obtained $200 from O' Leary with which to come home, after O'Leary had suggested that he return via Mexico, to leave the impression that O'Leary was there. After he asserted that Jeremiah's 1 physical decline," during which he had lost twenty pounds, began two years ago, Lyons was questioned concerning the fugitive's mental state. Lyons said that i Jeremiah, who believed himself "one of ! the greatest men this country ever pro- duced the man who would free Ireland," I began to neglect his lucrative law practice prac-tice six months after the war began. When Speer was called he testified that i Madame Marie K. de Victorica, who was I indicted with O'Leary and other defen-! defen-! dants on the treason and espionage con-I con-I spiracy charges, had appeared three times at the offices occupied by him and O'Leary and had asked for O'Leary. He did not know, he said, whether she and O'Leary had ever conferred.