Show ENGLISH SPIES IN AMERICA prominent irishmen comment on the ivory dynamite case allegation of president laoaan of the irish national alliance that english spies are now in america sketching forts etc and that they have laid numerous cables across the lakes new york nov 11 the story of the spy william alias thomas merrick jones who tedi fied in london yesterday against edward J ivory particulars of arieh secret orders here was the subject ot much discussion abia morning among irishmen prominent in the movement 1 I knew jones while be wae in this country aid wm lyman president of the irish national alliance this morn 1 1 I never became intimately acquainted with him while here he lemed very fiery against england and wae always talking of using dynamite ae faarae farae hie association the irish societies here ie concerned be may have belonged to the irise nation alliance and the shamrock dub and tha natany club the irish national alliance nor the shamrock club are not secret organizations 1 know also on personal tion that trip abroad waa lor pleasure only he had either political or private the charge him is a trumped up affair and abe testimony manufactured mr lymen emphatically denied that jones was a delegate to abe convention held in at which the arieh national alliano all iaco was organized he declared that england En cland in spies wai onla acting now as abe had always done he became very krava ae be proceeded and ald 1 have verv positive information ahat within abe fast three monahe england has sent spies to sketch every orfa in this country and that she has been short cables along the lakes connecting this country with canada cables are laid in fuch a that they can be picked up and utilized at moments notice 1 can tell where anese eailee have been laid and have a map 0 abe locality I 1 can produce at any time JONES ISA HIRELING chicago nov 14 ivory was not in chicago during 1895 baid daniel J when he bad read the account of jones sensational tee ivory in abe bow street police coart it he had been here I 1 would hay known it jones is another oft abe london police who are doine their beet to make out a case ivory in the second place there was not a secret meeting held in this city lurine the convention the public had a to attend every one that waa held the account e the meeting ia ridiculed on the face of it jones baye he met st john gaffney and talks of abe latter as if he were a citizen of chicago I 1 never atad ot dauney becore and I 1 dont believe body elee ever ded there were no meetings mee tines at a dark street hotel ae the dispatch aye it I 1 were to go to europe today I 1 would ba in the same fix that ivory is in now the london police would arrest roe for having been connected with the clan no eel and they would trump ap the tea against me just aa aney have against ivory it is another case of tynan over again alexander sullivan characterized the report as nonie cEe jones was in chicago nov 14 thomas meric gonei was in chicago and was registered at mccoye hotel september 22 1895 he was a eueal of the house until october 3rd and occupied room mr mcboy in speaking of the man who cave the sensational testimony at the ivory trial in london said 1 I have no recollection of jones and it I 1 met him myself I 1 hare forgotten I 1 attended one session of abo tion but for the reit of the time wae abney nt the hotel and did not keep the ran of the I 1 believe hie evidence is rubbish he is probably n the employ of the government and big story is told in order to make a bluff in ordea to earn hia calary ato secret meetings they are more than I 1 did not of any except tha which are usual at all conventions Speak lne or jone chicado Chic aeo nov 14 william ton speaking speak inz of informer jones whose testimony in the ivory cae in 1 ond kaufol a sensation a lid to a reporter this mornine the british government alfaye baa secret service men in its employ in thie country endeavoring ende avorine to unravel any plots which might arise in connection with the arrest ot tynan recently for some reason it was elated that these ar OS A ENGLISH SPIES IN AMERICA CONTINUED FROM FIRST rests were made through our arency I 1 was not a tame at the but denied the matter in the francisco papers I 1 want to deny here that we ever assisted the british government in a few instances we have been called upon to assist scotland yard in a civil case but have not at any time taken part in a criminal during the parnell suit against the london times the british sent a representative here to retain our services in that suit but my brother and I 1 both declined the employment the man who approached me was an detective ex and I 1 told him at the time that I 1 did not think he would make a success at his business and that the way he waa doina he was boing to get himself hurt if he did not look out he went to new york from here where he framed up a combination with some people who got all his money and sold him bogus information that is the last I 1 know of any english detective looking for any information of that kind in abia country but this man did not have the recognition of scotland yard there is no doubt that the british government is continuously alert for plots in this country but the work ia all done by british secret service men his career in dublin dublin noy 14 jones the government spy who created a sensation yesterday at bow estreet police court where he testified against ki chard J ivory the alleged irish american dynamiter was in this city within a fortnight he tried to establish relations of a een rational character with persons supposed to hold extreme political views he also stated that the two persons mentioned by him in his evidence as irish american agitators were really in the pay of the british government Rovern ment |