ART O'BRIEN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 July 1923, Page 5

ART O'BRIEN.

•-■ — ♦ EVIDENCE AT TRIAL, 2T CABLE—P£E_ ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGH7 LONDON, July 2. During the trial of the Irish deport*"?s, 'Art O'Brien gave evidence that he received a' salalry of £75C per an.num, together with £'120; monthly for expenses, while staying in a London hotel as representative of the Irish Republicans. He continued to receive this until he was deported. He stated that, he had spent' £2600 :n connection with the habeas corpus ease. He denied the suggetsion of the prosecution that the funds of the Irish Republic and his own personal accounts amounting to £30,000 were hopelessly mixed at the bank, but admitted that"they were closely intermingled.