[Untitled], this 25th day of June, 1868

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City and County of New York, 88:

Michael Anderson, of the city and county of New York, formerly of 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 convict prison; that he knew the said Halpin during his visit to Dublin in the year 1867; that he remembers the night of the 5th day of March in the said year 1867, when it was alleged that an attack was made by a body of “Fenians” on a certain police barracks at a place called Stepaside, in the county of Dublin; that he has been informed and believes that on the trial of said Halpin in Dublin, it was proven by the prosecution that the said Halpin was present at and directed the said alleged attack on said police barracks at Stepaside, which is said to have constituled an overt act of “treason-felony,” and of which the said Halpin was convicted and is now undergoing sentence of penal servitude in England. And this deponent does solemnly swear and declare that of his own knowledge the said Halpin was not at Stepaside on the day or night of the 5th of March, 1867, as above named, when said alleged attack on the police barrack was said to have been made, but was in the company of this deponent and some other friends in Dublin. And this deponent further says, that he was in the city of New York at the time of the trial of said Halpin in Dublin, and therefore could not testify to such fact as above stated, as he certainly would have offered to do had he been in Dublin during the trial of said Halpin; that about the month of April, 1867, this deponent emigrated from Ireland to the United States, and now resides in the city of New York.