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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1922

Miss Clara Dennis
Entertained
In Toronto

“(Special to the Guardian)

TORONTO, June? —Miss Clara,
Dennis, Convenor for District Sea-
man’s’ Woman's Auxili
fax, who arrived in To:

" day, was guest at a Jui
by Mrs. ‘Harry Reynolds of the To-
ronto branch of the Navy. Leagus
and this afternoon addressed
Laval Veterans at their club house.

©» ‘She fs a daughter of the late Sena-
; tor Dennis,, '
ee ol

TRURO, June 7—A
strike has just been made at the
long-discovered Oldham Mines, said
to be’ one of the richest
history of the province; and as a
consequence there is much excite-
ment in that and adjoining locali-
ties. Recently, George A. Cameron,

of Eureka, Pictou

an prospector and
himself

senting

of gold.

ton,

‘Mr. Cameron passed through last
night to his home in
consult with his associates, and had

th

GOLD STRIKE ‘REPORTED
- AT OLDHAM MINES

in

Co, |
miner,
‘and

repre

‘Last weel

Eureka

some of the gold with him,

R. C. Ellis, deputy land survey-
or, Pictou, who surveyed the pro-
. erty for Mr. Cameron and his as-
sociates, told The Herald that
“went there to scoff, but remained

to admire.”

at once.

prospectors,

In the sixtf68 ‘ind Garly seventios,
Oldham: was a rich \golifield, dnd
old timers ‘always contended’ that,
there was a véry rich lode there,!

Mr. Cameron and his associates
will develop the property, and
that end a crusher will be put

The feeling now is that they were

located it,

right and that (Mr.

Cameron has

foo

NDENSE

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cash,

Furnished Room ad.,
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Wanted, for seven words,

week,

Address forms

part of ad,

fbc for seven
Situation
60c per

riage.

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Write for particulars and agents’

' Catiadian

‘Auto

ary, of Halt
rotito yester-
ncheon ‘given

rich gola

ihe

the veter-

associates,
took up property in that ‘district
and ‘began prospecting.
he came upon a lode, and yester-
day, without firing a shot, broke
off a piece of the lode that it
estimated contained fifteen ounces
Experts say the lode will
run from 50 to 75 ounces

is

to the

to

he

to
in
A peculiar thing about
the discovery is that it was made
between the trenches of two other

Plot to Murder
Roumanian —
Royaltie

(Special to the Guardian)
(BELGRADE, June 7—A’ plot

(Marie to King Alexander, is repor'

secret police. -
e| cautions to guar

of suspects are being rounded
and‘the police are conducting hou
ly raids among the royalties, °{
Belgrade today are King Alexande

of Rumania and Duke
Prince Alfonso and
trice of Spain and the PriPnee ¢
Udine, Italy.

Another Civil War

of

«Special to the Guardian)

“| PEKON, June 7—Developments ¢

ago seesned on the verge of a un
fied government located here wa
in. grave danger of a worse spl
than eer with the north and sout
drifting only toward civil war. W
Pei Fus plan for Li Youn Hung t
resume the ‘Presidency of a centr:
lised government in Pekin wa
feared to have shattered itse
against a rock of opposition-in th
form of ‘Sun Yat. Sen who, accor¢
ing to advices received here
terday, declared he would refuse t
relinquish the presidency of hi
‘South China reyublic at Canton,

Airship Service

‘(Special to the Guardian)
LONDON, June 7—T
Goverament is seriously consider
jing putting up enough FE
_ sey to permit the establishment o
;!mperial mail and passenger
-ship service to Egypt, India
jAustralia. This information

is

“contained in a letter from the Air|Was at Big Point, two and
!Ministry. to the Air ‘League of the/miltes away, working on the Jand,
public She directed them to ihe place.
Pending the Cabinet's deci-|They drove to the odge of a woods
appropriation or Walked through the woods and saw

aire: Mr. ‘Ross and a young man work-
‘Defendent ‘was

(British Empire, just’ made
here.

the necessary money, British

7 ; inug in a field.
ships, which. had previously been}\))

and must be paid for. Spocial Rates! advertised for sale both here and its pee, a ge ss
the United States, have been tem he fant oa his teand Shortff| Hughes
porarily withdrawn from the hands and Officer ‘Doyle walked out into

OP ten

of the disposal board.

It is understood’that the Air
‘Ministry, the Admiralty, and many
members of the Cabinet favor the
scheme of an airship service, even

is trying to exercise drastic econo-
my.

Three Are Kiiled
At Level Crossing

((Special to the Guardian)
SHERBROOKE, QUE., June
Alec Dougay, his wife and fiftee
year-old daughter Gladys are dead,
and his son Patrick, eighteen yeare|
of age, is seriously injured ag the
result of a level railway crossing
accident about. a mile and a_ half
from. Norton Mills on Saturday. A
three-year-old baby, who was in the
Dougay car when it was struck -by,
the MontrealsNewport afternooi:
train, is only slightly injured.
The Dougays were motoring from
Norton Mills to the their home at
Island Pond. They had the side
curtains up, as it was raining, and
it is thought they did not see the
train until the engine crashed full
into the car, completely shattering
it and instantly killing Mrs, Dougay
and hér daughter. In some miracu-
lous fashion the baby, after being
carried in front ofthe engine with
his dead mother and sister for six
hundred yards, escaped with a few
scratches, Alec Dougay died on the
way to the Sherbrooke Hospital,
where thd son is now under treat:
ment,

Another Constable
Murdered in Ireland

(Special to the Guardian)
BPLFAST, June 7—A member of
a patrol of Ulster special constables
was shot dead at midnight near the
iMonaghan border, | An attack was
made early today on a new constab-
ulary post at Clady, A sentry ob-
served a detachment of Republicans
creeping over a field in North Irish
territory and gave the alarm. The

to
assassinate the Royal families of|°
Rumania and Jugo-Slavia gathered
here for the marriage of .Princess

ed to have been discovered by ‘the
xtraordinary pre:
the royal person-
ages’ lives are being taken, A score
up

King Ferdinand of Rumania, Queen
Marie of Rumania, Princess Mari
York
Princess Bea-

Developing in China

the lust 24 hours indicated early to:
day that China, which a few days

yes:

Being Projected

at this time whon the Government

i—

Interest

5

Sheriff With Axe,
Called. |

The summary trial of|Magnus Rose
of Flat River, charged with as.
saulting Sheriff Hughes in the dis-
charge of his duty by attempting
to strike him with ap axe, came
up yesterday jbofore Magistrates
D, Edgar ‘Snaw and Arthur Clark,
Attorney General Johnston xppear-
ed for the Crown, Mr. K, J. Mar-
tin, K. C., for defendent, Morn-
ing and afternoon sittings were
held in Mr. Shaw’s office three
crawn witnesses being examined
and the case adjourned until this
monying. Objection was
raised by defendant's ‘counsel with
regard to the submiting of evi
dence of the serving of a warrant
upon defendent last December for
failure to pay poll. tax, the two
magistrates dividing upon the ques
tion. On account of this division
Mr. ‘Martin moved for
and Mr. Johnston asked that the
case be adjourned for the purpose
of calling in another magistrate.
To this ‘objection was raised by
Mr. Martin. During adjournment
the magistrates will either come to
an agreement or decide whether
« third magistrate is admissable at
this stage of the cage, as it would

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e| Necessitate taking the evidence] “He was pulling up a duce of a
i: again which would be tantamount scrap, wasn't. he?”

to a new trial. , “Yes, he swas.”
x “Did you make any arrange.
x ments with regard to the team af.

(snecit Hhughes’ Evidence.
| At the morning session Francis
W. Tughes, ~ high sheriff. for
Queen's ,County, (sworn) stated
under direct’ éxamination that he
had received a warrant to appre-
hend Mr, Ross, signed by Magis-
trate D, Edgar Shaw and in pur-

fuance of the wararnt he drove] ‘.¥°-” : Seite San eve tanude
cut to Flat River accompanied by vt was one of his own com: nois »
2 ba r : ey i o se,
;Police Officer Doyle, on Tucsday, Pee ee ati taeily ld arcane Mr. Johnston—"Did the sheriff

|May 30th. He did not know Mr.
he Britisu Ross previously. ‘Other calls were
ay. Constable Rob-
nglish mo-;ert Stewart, of Eldon was Dieked
nt with the sheriff: and
air-!DOlice officer to Mr. Ross’ place,
and{Arriving there they spoke to Mrs.

made on the w

r’up and we

,'Ross and she said her husban,

the clearing, Ross had an axe
topof the seedér.
“T told him who I was,” said

wards him, I-said again I wag the
sheriff and had

lay down the axe:”

Attorney 'Génaral
“What did. he say

Sheriff: Hughes—"He said “Come
on!” He had the axe in one
hand and the teins in the other
hand,, and he slashed at me with
the axe. “What the hell qo you
want?” he said. “Who in hell are
you?” The axe was an ordinary
wood-chopping one, ground
the ‘handle about three feet long.

Attorney General Johnston—“It
was ‘not what you would call a
small hatchet?”

Sheriff Hughes—‘No, it was a
lumbering axe. He said again
“Come on-” I followed him up and
repeatedly told him to lay down
the axe. He paid no heed but
kept flourishing it and telling me
to “Come on.” Officer Doyle told
him to lay it down, and said,
“Don't you know its the Sheriff?”
Constable Stewart, who accompiin-
ied us to the Ross home, was not
in the field’ at this time but re-
mained jin the woods. Ovficer
Doyle took an old unloaded revyol-
ver out of his pocket and snapped
it at Ross three times. Ross mado
a slash with the axe towards me
and Doyle rushed in and grabbed
him.”

‘Magistrate Shaw—"“You way he
nade a slash at your face with
the axe?”

‘Sherif! Wughes—‘Yes. Doylo
rushed in and caught him around
(he left arm, We both caught him
then and after a struggle got him
handcuffed. ‘He complained he
had rheumatism and that. Doyle
was hurting his arm, Mr. Stewart
walked out then from the woods
and Mr. Ross said. “You are the
cause. of this, Robert.” After a
little hesitation he went quiétly
with us through ‘the woods to the
car, We took the suffs off him and
got along all right then, I showed
him the wararnt and as he would
not take a copy I put it in his
pocket.”

‘Mr. Martin (cross examining)
—Is Officer Doyle a constable for
the County?”

ra

reports state heavy firing was opea
ed and the assailants were driven

off. Bombs were used during the
skirmish, ey

3

ing Developments in
Case Against Magaus Ross

Another Protest

Special to the Guardian)

Against Stamp Ta

WINNIPEG, June 7—The gradua-

Defendent Appeared Yester
Shaw and Claik Cha

acquittal]

“Yes.”

“Why did you not go up along
the field (wwithouy going’ throuzh

{I loing’ with the axe and he stia|
the woods?” , f i
; »{he was chopping roots as the field
Pr 3 ‘ta tions. f
Bali Laat eure sh was a new one. Tho sheriff told fsb ene received the follow
be “jim twice 'to put the axe down,|ing reply: bid
sige a ale Ross? and as Ross .paid No attention the iE. eerily Att ky ee AE
Wee oe ad} Sheriff ituined round to witnesg|ernment a le people of ‘Canada
: You expected to meet a_ bad ant said. “Where is that revol.| for your kind message of good
pe : ver?” ; Wishes on this anniversary of my
“Yes.” M

“How noar did you -get to Mr,
arrested?”

Ross before he was
“About four or five feet.”

“You were not near enough for

him ‘to hit you, then?”
“IT looked out for that.”

“You mean to say that you kept
reach~you kept safe?”

out ‘of
“Yes,

“You told Doyle to shoot him?”
“No, I said, “Fire the revolver.”
“You heard Doyle snap it?”
“Yes.”

“Did Mr. ‘Ross ever leave the
been

tail of the
diving?”
“No.”

seeder, he had

“Did ‘he ever drop the reins?”
“No. He never left the seeder,
8 nor the axe

nor dropped the’ rein
till he was

arrested,

ter you ar
“No. We

sted -him??

Mr.

site Mel

bor.”

“Who toll you Ross was a bad}

man, was if Robert Stewart

day Before Magistrates
rged With Threatenin

Three Crown Witnesses

found out the boy work
ing with him in the field was his
son, Going back we stopped oppo-
ite’s place, a neigh:

Q"

1 a half

the Sheriff. “and‘he gabbed the
axe when he saw me coniing to-

a warrant to. ar-
rest him, and that he had better

Johnston—

pt

was about the poll tax.”
Autorney ‘Ceneral
“That is, a debt to the King.”
Mr, Martin—‘There is a differ
1 pecple say it
sovernment and
sees a cent of it. (continuing
cross-examination) Did Mr. Stew

the King’ never

Slerift (Hughes—*No,”
“What did you ‘take
you for, then?”

compromise about the thing.”
“Did you have any instructions
om anybody to get the matter
smoothed over?”

ONO.

“Did you qiscuss a compromise
with Stewart when yeu called on
him?" .

“No. I spoke about the ‘day of
the ‘trial. I- had nothing to do with
a& compromise”,

“IE you. had nothing to do with
it why did you tell the court that
you took Stewart along for that
punpose?”

The ‘witness denied that he had
said this,

The (Magistrate ri
evidence, i i
‘Mr, (Martin—‘what did you
mean when you spoke about a com
promise that you hoped Stewart
ould be able to make with the
defendent?#

Sheriff Hughes—"1
I used the word,
ness I had with
to arrange

ead: over the

did not know
The only busi-
Mr. Stewart was
about a day of trial.”

Officer Doylle,

Dominficlk Doyle 4
said he wag Police. constable in
Charlottetown but not for the
county. He was sure he had nover
been appointed constable for the
county,
Attorney General Johnston—
“Are you the only policeman who
is not Sworn fn as constable for the
county?"

“T don’t think an
unless it would be Sgt. Bradley.’
“This is a most extraordinary
Statement to make. Did you never
serve any papers outside Charlotte
town?”

“No,”
“Did you ¢ver arrest a man
yoursel, alone, ouside the oity?”
“I might have arrested a crazy
man, or something like Mat.”
‘Ofllcer [DoyJo, ‘conllinuing, said
he went with the sheriff but told
him when he asked him to serve
the warrant that he could not do
80, a8 he could not hahdle jt out
side the city, They saw defendent
in the field. They eft the house,
walked through the woods, leay-
ing the car behing on the fringe
of the Woods and found defendont
driving a seeder in a field. Ross
talked for some time with a Mr.
MeRae who came on the seene
with a load of oats. They waited

(sworn)

Y of them are,

whole trouble. in -the first place §

Johnston. —

art take any part in the arrest?”.

him with w

saying that, but I might have said
something in a joking way.’”

in theb udget was objected to at
meeting of the executive of
Prairie Divisién, Canadian Manufa
turers’ Association.

g

follwing in the -rear about te:
fect. Ross had an axe in his han

afterwards sked him what he wa

him to drop the axe?”
“Not that I remcniber’ When

are you fellows?” [ said, “This i:
‘the ‘sherri ‘with a wanrant
you.” IT went behind him
caught him: by the wrists, I did
not see hint do any slashing wit;
the axe which he held in his. han¢
caught half way up. the handle

ang

me with his back turned to us
facing the seeder.
the time or not.”
Mr. Johnston—*What did
produce the revolver for?”

it
“Did you try to snap it?”

“There was nothing in it
snap.”

tc

revolver at hin?”
“No. I just snapped it'at him.”
Mr. Shaw—“‘Why didn’t
tuke one of these little toy pistols
the beys play with about town?’
‘Officer
sbeen about the same thing.”

|

miles from tho Ross home The | know the revolver was not load

jea?”
“I don’t knew. Th
ime to.take it and It

jand 1 told the sheriff that.

ce wanted to.”
te

to take chances with him

I found that he acted

want
hen

of man. that Mr.
him from the front.”

Mr... Jchnston—'When
let go the axe?”

' did

“Wihen I had him by the two
wrists, the sheriff came over and

took it out of h

hand.”

“Did you
to the sheriff?

“No. I did not. The sheriff wag
between us at the time.: He did
hot leave the tail of the seeder,
He was facing 'towards us a little
when we came out but afterwards
he faceq the seeder and that was
Why 1 had to catch him from pe:
hind. It would be tmpossible to get
in front of him uniess I climbed
ver the seeder,”
Mr. JMartin—Iwas
‘Hughes in front of him?”
“No, the horse was in front of
him.” 1
After further questions by both
counsels witness declared he had
not seen Ross do anything out of
the way. While he was putting the
cuffs on him he said “I am an old
man and I am full of rheumatism
and I don’t want you to put the
cuffs on me.” Witnes stold him
they were going on anyway. He
did not put up a fight at all,”
Mr. Johnston—"Do you put the
ouffs on every man you arrest ’’
“Protty nearly, It depends on
the kind of man he is, I got a
bad outline of this man from Mr.
Stewart, He said he had pulled a
sum on ‘him and pitchforks and
everything olse.” ;
‘Mr. Martin—“He had you pro-
perly ‘worked up then?”
“Well, we thought we had better
not take chances.”
‘Witntss had a conversation with
Mr. Martin about the cage on the
previcus day. At this time he did
not ktow ‘Mr, Martin wag counsel
for defendent.
The court adjourned until. 2
m

him raise the axe

Sheriff

.30
Us ‘
‘When the court met in the f-
ternoon iMr. Johnston askeq wit-
ness if he had nop told the sheriff
that Ross was the worst man he
ever came across?

OMcer Doyle—‘I dont remember

Mr. Johnston—“wWhen you were

until, McRae left and then when

Sheriff Hughes—‘I «don’t
know.”

‘Mr. Martin—Is Mr, Stewart a
county constable?”

Ress had approached them jthrough
the field riving. the: er, “te

ted stamp tax on checks contained

the

When witness saw him. The sher-
iff told him to drop it, Witness

Mr. Martin—“Did he say any-
thing at-all when the sheriff told
pulléd the revolver he said “Who

for

the blade downwards and the reins
in his other hand, He had the axe
off the ground, He was ahead of

I dont know
whether he was walking away at

you

“The sheriff told me to produce
on

‘Mr. ‘Shaw—‘Did you point the

you

Doyle—“It would have

Johnstcn—*Why did you
tl “Inced to go behind him and use the
te handcuffs 2”
,' “I understood he was a bad man
before we got there and I did not
all
“ right I took them off. He had lots
“I thought they could get to-! "8 i
7 , 5 of chances 'to use the axe. if’ he
sothor Gnd make some kind of attaa wanted fo. If ho was the kind
Stewart told me
he was I ‘would not want to take

he

Mir. ~~ \Martin—*“Yiou .saw this| Mr. Shaw said he would: admit
Whole performance from first to|/the evidence.
last?” Mr. Clark decided the evidence
“Vos.” Should not be admitted,

Canada’s Greetings
To His Majest

(Special to The Guardian)
OTTIAW'A;

X

a

“General, the Lord Byng
Vimy presents his humble duty

C-

on behalf of the government. at

n

dion the occasion of your Majesty

birthday,
“(Signed)—
“BYNG OF VIMY ”

8

birthday,
“(Signed)—
“GEORGE R. I.”

June 7—His E\xcel-

‘loney the Governor General .on
‘Saturday sent the following mes-
sage to His Majesty, King George.

your Majesty and has the honor

the people of Canada to convey
their most respectful good wishes

City Schools Will

y| Close June 28th

Board held last evening it was d
of
to
on Tuesday, Sept. 5th.
The order of the .closin
ses will be:

nd

’s
p.m.
I

(Rochford Square—3.10 Dm, ti
4.20 p.m,

ToRe-open Sep.5th

‘At a meeting of the City School

cided to close the City ‘Schools gn
Wednesday, June 28th, and reopen

& exerci

Prince Street—9.30 a.m, to 11 a.m.
‘West Kent—11.15 #@.m, to 12.40

Queen (Square—1.30 p.m. to 3 p.
n

f U. 8. A. $480

‘Gasoline Cargo
Explodes as Ship's
Boilers Blow Up

((Special to the Guardian)
BUENOS. ATRBS, June 7— Tha
steamer Villa Franco, with a crowd
of 100 excursionists, on the Parana
River, near the ParaguayArgenti-
na frontier, was destroyed this af-
ternoon by an explosion of tha
steamer's boilers. More than nine
ty are dead.

The accident was made horrible
through repeated explosions in a
cargo of gasoline tins. The entire
river, coated ‘with gasoline, is «
mass of flames, making practically
useless all efforts at rescue work.

e-

oO

any adjournment for
of bringing in anot

which would practically mean

I

*Jyou said it or not?”
A
d

n
it

I, did it was meant ag a joke.”

onds examining the revolver a

‘}would not work. He repeated hi
statement that -defendent's bac

iff except when

with the blade down and

he did turn

bushes, He did not see defenden

was between him and defendent
Ho did not see Stewart after they
left the woods
cut to him,

Bailiff Stewart .

was baliff, “He resided in Pinette

‘He had documents to

Mr.
this evidence, The wararnt served

Mr, Jchnston | maintained that
whee a man is chargea with a
crimial offense the
motive is always in order, “If
man assaults you today ang if vou
can show that he threat-nod
assault you siv months ago, isn’t
that evidence?” he demanded.

“No, it is not," retorted Mr.
Martin. “It is not necessary to: go
;beh nd this warrant Jaid on the
jinformation of Robert Stewart,
When a direct act is charged what
do you want a motive for? Take
it the other way, would you say
that if you cannot prove a motive
he is innocent ‘of the charge?"

Mr. Johnston said under the eir
outastances he would have to aban
don the case and take up the othe
charge,

Mr. ‘Martin replied that the At-
torney General had told him the
present case was the more serious
one and that the other case. would
the dropped, ‘Since the magistrates
have disagreed on the point he
wculd move for a dismissal.

Mr. Johnston—We can't go on

we call in another magistrate.
Otherwise the other case will
stand over and this will be aban-
doned,

Mr. Shaw—tI ‘will not Bive a
dismissal. On the evidence before
me IT am inclined to convict,
‘Mr. ‘Clark—Offleer Doyle's evi-
dence jig favorable. to the defen-
dent. \So far as I can gee from hig
‘statemen# the man never lifted
his hand to the sheriff,
‘Mr. Johnston again asked that
the case be adjoutned to call. a
third magistrate, ‘Mr. Martin op-
posed this on the ground that the
court has been already constituted
and cannot be onlarged to suit
the convenience of the Attorney
General on account of an unfavor-
able decision,

‘Mr. Johinston said he was in this
Impossible ‘situation
magistrate had already given his
|teqiviol, nothwithstanding what
een evidence would be produc-
od.
* Mr. Clark objected to having
the onus of the mattor thrust upon
him. ‘He had given his decision
after Mr. Shaw's decision, and he
believed himself porfectly entitled
fo his opinion. “I have as much
brains as either ono of you, though
Tam not a lawyer.” he said,

‘Mr. Johnston said he had no
intention of casting any refleci

“And you don’t know whethor
“TL don't remember saying it. If
Witnos spent two or threo ‘sec-
ter ‘he had snapped it, The spring
was towards himself and the gher-
he first turned
around. When he had the axe ir
his hand he was facing the seeder,
the
handle towards the oMficers.. When

Hughes was about ten feet away

(‘rom him.: The position of the
seeder at this time was about
twenty feet away from the

raise the axe to the sheriff, who
until “Ross sang

u
Robert Stewart (sworn) gaid he

serve on defenden:. The first was]
a ‘summons. from the County Court
at ‘the cuit of the government for
{poll tax. Shoriff Hughes sent him
e sheriff told'this summons on Decembzr 17th
ook it. I had! last.
!no authority ‘to-go: there ney
He
BECP ge Ovlnion about that, Most |ooull avo taken 8 revolver, tim
goes to the Bente F

Martin took objection to

upon the arrest of the defendent tite aNerity Gee ie the Wonar
Was good and it was not necessary} Witnesy ad { Jnot see idefendent
to go behind jt.

quescion Of about a hundred yards away, and
oihe did not come up till his father

to

This back was towards the seeder?

in the face of this ruling unless],

that one] op it

have to be gone over again.

proceeded, Witness isaid he

f-
of Officer Doyle
§

kk

n
claring he could se
that went on.
had gone and

After Mr.

when the sheriff
around first Sheriff
cracked a limb and Ross turneg
around and saw him, The sheriff
said “put down that axe” four or
five times and told him he had a
warrant to arrest him. Ross held
the axe by the middle in his left
hand,
(Mr. Johnston—What was he do-
ing with it?

Witness— “Keeping the sheriff
away, I guess,” Doyle at this time
was ‘back about ten feet behind
the shoriff. He snapped hig re-
volver and commenced fixing it
after it did not go off. The Ssher-
iff told him to bolt in on Ross
Doyle. kept fixing the revolver for
about flwio minutes. Rogs had his
back towards the Seeder, facing
the sheriff, and the horse was ‘MO0v
ing slowly in the direction of the
woods. He had no axe in his hand
when he walked up (with the seed-

t

D

|

cut roots while he was t
field they were in w
The boy was away down in alhollow

here. The

(was handcuffed.”

Mr.. Johnston—Where was Of.
ficer Doyle when Hughes was being
threatened ”

Witness—“He was about ten
feet behind Hughes.”

Witness. knew defendent had a
gun, He saw it when he went dqwn
to serve an execution in March,

(Mr. Shaw—“Did you see Ross
make any attempt on the sheriff?”

Witness—He was swinging the
axe around, telling him to keep
back.”

‘Mr. ‘Martin (cross-examining)—
“Haw did Doyle catch him?"

Witness—‘From behind.”

“How could he catch
him from behind when you say

Do you mean to say he got be
tween’ him and the seeder?”

“No, he turned Rose facing the
seeder, catching him by one wrist
first.”

“You say, when this attack was
made, tha't Dolye was behind
Hughes?

“No, he was on the side then.”
“And he could see what hap-
pened as well as you?”

“Ho |wseTixing his revolver at
the time.”

“This is a different story alto-
gether. You have said that Doyle
was ‘ten feet behind the sheriff.”
“That ‘was when the sheriff came
out first,”

“What took you there, anyway?”

“The sheriff took moe there, He
took me for a drive, I guess.”

“You laid the information, What
purpose did the ‘sheriff have for
taking you there? Did he give any
reason for taking you?
Witness—"“No. After the arrest
the party stopped at witness’ gate
and. he went home.”

Mr. ‘Martin—"There wag not
very much to it’ after all,( was
there ”

Witness—“There is a lot. back
it.”

“But it didn’t scare you very
much, did it?”

“No.” i

“Will you swear that Ross ever
fired a gun in his life.”

“No, but he was the man that
asked for the gun when I went to
execute the warrant.”

(Mr. Jobidston—"“When was
that?”
After some objection by. Mr.

Martin the witness was allowed to
answer. He had a warrant for de-

Every man — wwag ontitled to hig
opinion. But it was impossible to
go on with the case Where there
was an unequal decision, ,

‘Mr. Martin maintained that in

tallting to the sheriff yesterday
didnt he ca attention to

‘appeal cases tha two judges some.
nm *,

fendent in tion with non-
settlemet of his taxes. Defendont
had a single barreled gun in his
hand, and iwhen defendent learned
the nature of witness’ visit ho told

his boy to go fetch him the doulile

is no conviction, He would oppose
the purpose
her magistrate,
a
new trial, as the evidence twould

‘On .Mr. (Shaw's Suggestion the
question of the admission of this
particular evidence stood over and
direct examination of the witness
was
present when the alleged assault
took place. ‘He heard the evidence
that defendent
did not do anything out of the
way. This was not ccrrect, He de-
scribed his own position and the
Position of Ross, McRae and the
other ‘witnesses at the time, de-
6 everything
McRae

started outt from the wood's he

as an old one.:

It is believed that less than 20
persons out of the entire crowd of
passengers and crew have been
saved,

According to information recelved
by La Nacion, the steamer had on
board tourists for Iguazu Falls. It
is said the vessel sank so quickly
that the passengers had no time to
dress or to seek life belts.

as possible. There had been others
around but not at the time this
happened. This was his second
visit to defendent, the first boing
‘to servg a summons. His next
visit was in connection (with the
present charge.

‘No further witnesses. were oall-,
ed for the Crown,

After considerable discussion the
court adjourned on motion of Mr.
Martin until 10 o’clack this morn-
ing.

—_——D +o

A CLOUDBURST SWEPT
THROUGH VALLEY

(BIRMINGHAM, N. Y., June 7—
Damage estimated at between one
and two million dollars, was caused
in the Delaware..river ‘valley in
New York and the Lackwanna rive:
valley in Pennsylvania by floods fol
lowing a cloudburst that swept
through the valleys Saturday after-
noon. ;

Tracks of the main Mne of the
Erie railroad, the Pennsylvania
division of the Delawaré and Hud-
1son railroad and the Scranton div-
ision of the Ontario and Western
railroad are undermined and coy-
ered. by. landslides, the most ser-
lous damage occurring on the main-
line of the Erle, near Lordville,
!where the tracks were wiped out
for a distance of nine hundred feet.

At least ten ‘bridges were swept
‘away by the swollen waters of the
‘Delaware river and Its tributaries
A large number of automobile
tourists are marooned in the flood
districts.

The Weather,
Temperature,
_ ‘Tide, Moon, Etc.

TORONTO, June 8—Westerly
winds. Fair and quite warm.

High tide this morning at 9.06
and tonight at 10.256.
‘Sun sets this evening at 7.49

and rises tomorrow morning «+6

4.08.

(full moon Friday June 9, 11.68
m.

a.

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