[Untitled], this 23d day of June, 1868

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City and County of New York, 88:

Niall Breslin, of the city and county of New York, recently confined in Kilmainham and Mountjoy prisons, in the city of Dublin, Ireland, being duly sworn, deposes and says, “That he knows William G. Halpin, now a convict undergoing a sentence of 15 years’ penal servitude in an English prison; that he knew the said Halpin in the city of Dublin during his visit to Ireland in 1867; that he was present at his trial in Dublin in the said year on a charge of ‘treason-felony,’ on which charge he was convicted; that the only overt act relied on and proven by the prosecution against the said Halpin on the said trial was, that he was present at an alleged attack on a certain police barracks at a place called ‘Stepaside,’ in the county of Dublin, Ireland, on the night of the 5th day of March, 1867; that he knows of his own knowledge that the said William G. Halpin was not at the said place (Stepaside) on the day or night above named, but was with this deponent in Dublin at the time of the alleged attack on said police barrack; that he believes that on proof of this charge, by false testimony, the said Halpin was convicted of said alleged overt act, and is now undergoing the sentence of 15 years’ penal servitude; that the said Halpin, in company with this deponent, did, in the city of Liverpool, in England, on or about the 1st day of July, 1867, engage passages for New York in the steamship City of Paris; that the said Halpin and this deponent did proceed on the voyage in said steamship, from Liverpool, on the 3d day of July, 1867; and that on the 4th day of July, in said year, when said steamship put into Queenstown, Cork harbor, for mails and passengers, the said Halpin and this deponent were then and there arrested, taken on shore, conveyed to Dublin, and confined in Kilmainham prison; that the said Halpin did not get permission to take his trunks or personal luggage on shore with him, and was thereby prevented from having access to his American naturalization papers, passports, or other documents necessary for his defense, and did not subsequently recover them; that on the trial of the said Halpin, in Dublin, a certain letter was produced, signed ——— Dunlap, which was falsely proven by the prosecution to have been found on his person, but which this deponent solemnly swears was found in his own (this deponent’s) carpetbag, and not on the person or among the effects of the said Halpin; that this deponent was called as a witness by the said Halpin on his trial, and did so testify as above stated

“That this deponent was kept in close confinement in said Kilmainham and Mount-joy prisons for about 10 months, and was then, on the 29th day of April, 1868, and without trial, placed on board the steamship City of Antwerp, at Cork, and conveyed to New York, where I now reside.”