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> 7 | | ¢ \In WHurry for Whiskey. * D7 L availe. Teckett, Grey county; "This prescription,'"' said the At-- > Im:;pector Ch arlgonpalrme Officer, and'l torney--General, referring to the \ AR. M. Warren ?\I go testified. | whiskey order, "was taken by one made a forceful orth Renfrew, f Arnold, a chauffeur of Col. Lennox's, i mencem entc%ru t}':r otest at the com-- to the Government dispensary. There the '"insguit" wp 91 q OE R® against| was some delay, and Mr. LennoXx lnox had on Fricda el::éld Mr. Len--| f himself came into the dispensary 3 'himself and the e};ect offered to --__._ and told the clerk they should have Renfrew. He did not ors of North f | a better system there, and said that said, to suffer the "ya D;Irpou, he ' he was in a hurry, because he had Toronto lawyer" in th!;r:; negs of any to go to Sutton.. Dr. Preston was 'pass without protest. respect to campaigning with Mr. Lennox at w » $ that time in North York. | "Mr. Lennox," he continued, \ "might, perhaps, exxil{ain .t(? thllsl / | committee why he a King's Counsel, loec} « | f and a supporter of the Government ComlT"SSIOner Be||e\VeS Te'e.i which in 1916 passed this temper-- -- s | 6 ance law, has broken it, amii ha;; grams in Huston In | f > t enalties [ el We were pepsstured" __ __ quiry Are Relevant | The matter came up following f mmonpntoment oo h suate ainatiovestnt | the Attorney--General's mention and STATED CASE NOT G'VEN} complete denial of the inferred es | charge that the liquor found in the pemk | Mansion House raid at Sutton was D, L, MeCarthy, K. C.,; counsel for | {»lllzzc(w:"th'e;:':) ':':\?w:r:f kn,?l\:lc(li\giekcl); Tl'w Toronto _ Evening 'l'elegram.i k $A 4 orneyv--(Ge cal. a s C when CO issi $ Af &n $ o asked if the committee was to infer terday atm('::s::(;n(;l '\lld([anh }el.' 1 that Mr. Lennox took the liquor to | rday at Osgoode Hall resumed his| | Sutton. inquiry into the death of Captainil _ _ The Attorney--General replied: "It Orville Huston, alleged that Gor--| -isz-tn my mind, a sufficient answer d@on Waldron, K.C., counsel for the[ to Mr. Lennox's charge that the | O j Bover + 4 < £ e [Havor was taken. to Sutton by the } ntario (' ovunn'xem. .was conduct-- | officers." ing the proceedings in a manner Another matter of. importafhce which constituted an attempt to re-- dealt with by the Attorney--General cure evidence which would possibly * and the committee was that of the| help E. W. Backus in his libel ac-- liquor seizure at Fort Frances, in | tion against the newspaper in ques-- which the charge was that the de--| tion. This was repudiated by MPF | partment had offered to release the| ' § o es P ¥ AMLTs | liquor to its owners for shipment| Waldron as an "unfounded asser-- | to some legal place, British Colum--| 'tion." and he suggested that Mr. ?ia being named. The recent 00{!' MceCarthy had formed his opinions | ct'xtiggr:s}or"t';lse l]';;;"zf"t'}f: 'g{')';d';p?,t';! on '"slanderous articles," which had | § 'deb:auch the Citizens of British Col--| apeared in The Teiegram concern--| umbia." Mr. Raney said yesterday, | ing him (Mr. Waldron). | as Mr. J. P. Haverson, K.C., previ-- t . | ously testified, that ncither he nor Es le_k'gra.ms Produced. | I Commissioner Hales had used the , The whole session was devoted to expression, although, he said, he had @arguments in connection with the} some knowledge of the efforts of the | production -- of certain telegrams} company to secure~possession of its f $ P liquor and smuggle it into the U.S.| which had passed between The Tele-- | The committee's view, after hear--| gram and its representatives at Forp ing the evidence, was that there was Frances and Winnipeg,. The produc--| . QI]C()}n({)r'II(I}It(eX T}f;nfi?xéglr}dlgge:d t?'?; tion of 1these telegrams in e\'idence; MV. L4 k y I i was objected to by J. 1D. Spence, term "debauch" and had been taken appearing for the Canadian Pa.cificl up as attributing it to somebody | Telegraph Company. Mr. Spence else. asked Commissioner Macintosh for Lennox Tenders Thanks. a stated case, asking, among other | Kotable in connection with the ;hgxrn'gls. ;vhetger t(t;e co:lmfl)ssti)clm ne ! _ Not: § egally issued under the Public In-- committee proceedings was the At-- quiries Act or not; whether thecGov-i torney--General's comment upon the' , ernor--in--Council -- had power to| r:f,uzul (t)f (;nlt.ogzlolnr?:)xht&-rti:;kge t}l{lg % authorli]ze the commission to inquire| stand at »yesterdavy s * ® into the matters set forth in the| | would have thought, said Mr. Raney, commission; whether the subpoenal thatléh;a?;enfiggg {»;fly I:Z)?')nglago?é zun};rn;)ni%g the witness from the wou 7 . P. R. Tele 3 | |avail himself promptly of the op-- produc;ion Ofg:iréhd%gr"?::g; f'g;stl;:: portunity of refuting the personal order; and whether the documents | )Tat}']'i'('ls b';_"))';']';z';]"t"'(')'li hifi'felfL:'::lig: to be produced were relevant to the * | ne ns T * * 4 » engquiry. ;g?wol\'{;r.nzrg);llngly thanked him for! f Mr. McCarthy, on behalf of The _ | mig_ sCHC * i Toronto (Evening Telegram, object-- e "'_";'3'3,'"";'9 heg;;grg"thauq;g,:& | ed to the admission of the telegrams | ilfg}:hr«:r ;ie;tli:w;" \Ie:]' Leniok sa?dc ;'e l - ;:l'lt.ll their relevancy or admissibility y K * s C thought that he could get through Dfigdbefeol; gel:tfwg(';eg;se"e' t00.; AP | all_his evidence by Friday. | Commissioner Macintosh, in sum-- !cngfix{:&;)fe{&tfigxey{\gfigem}' trlx)o;- 'mintg vo stated that he had taken 1Flavene. former Chairman of the: particular care not to bring any-- . | thing into the investigation which | Ontario License Board, who testifiet'lI would help Mr. Backus or The Tele-- that no crooks or criminals were Sram. 'There was nothing of a| exer knowinglsl'l kepg ghi ihe tlllepax;:.- political nature. _ He, ioo, empha--| mental payroll. ccasionally, he z6 n s 7 | atinitted," an _ undesirable" stipped es sol Sont es nad | through, and, when unmasked, was [ . i Lased hi Jat .,' if A 4 | dismissed But the AttorneyGen-- | PRS® P Coaln Ee e was unab °* C Te . prgect .--_|to recall whether that report was| eral's orders and regulations, he he d hich_ nad l thought, were too strict, Mr. Raney amone t(he doounienis _ Wl o 129| { * & been turned over to him, although | had ordered that a man who drank / a m | ; ho smeliled of liquor should not he was under the impression that g: v:a,mployed it was. He concluded by saying' cell s |that he considered the 17 documents | tifitigt.oF:):?eclll'liriag;(gratgo%mztfe cf:- which had been handed over were | ;s spector Ayearst, who, he maintained, « -- |réelevant to the inquiry. . He, there-- ': had not a blemish against his rec-- fore, rejected the application for the | ord, so far as he knew. The ex-- '131'?}1 cage. [A h | Chairman told the committee that U s es ee. rosncasory aopifcacl 'jlaw enforcement officers were al-- would make the necessary ap;; ica~ | ways having charges laid against ; tHion to the Appellate Division for a a them by persons who felt the effects' ';ullng g'geetger the documents shoula _ 1 erations. | e produced. i arniinnns "rates snn | ~ The commission had intended to % i 'proceed with the examination of ; 'Irving E. Robertson of The Toronto & : f Evening Telegram, but on being in-- * . ** formed that he was not well, and C 'accordingly unable to attend, the. -- i f i | inquiry adjourned until Thursday -- i% | morning. 8