Henry O’mahoney to P. S.—The crime that I am suspected with I can furnish plenty of evidence that I had no connection with. H. O’M, July 15, 1881

Mr. O’Mahoney to Mr. Lowell.

Dear Sir: As I am a suspect here for some time, I forwarded my papers of citizenship about the 18th of June to Ed. P. Brooks, United States consul at Queenstown, and demanded protection, and he said he would attend to it; and in a note from a friend from Queenstown to-day he (Mr. Brooks) requested that I should write to the ministry at St. James in reference to my application for protection. I arrived in this country about the last of January for the express purpose of collecting a lot of money due to me here, and was fully intended to go to the States this fall in order to get into the apple trade. I certainly say that during my time at home previous to my arrest I was never guilty of any offense punishable by law, and I respectfully ask if I cannot be protected in this country long enough to collect my debts, and by obeying the laws, such as I always have, to allow me as many days as possible in preparing to depart for America; and although it is very hard on me to go without collecting my debts, yet I shall receive it as an everlasting favor done me under the circumstances. An early reply will much oblige,

Yours, respectfully,