Ee ------------ eet tr YEAR 93; No. 201. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, ' 1928. = Che Baily British Whig CONVICT KILLS A PEN] Guard Jenkins Is Dead » Of a Fractured Skull: By Convict BE trservye "Attacked ® Ti Thomas McCoskey the Murderer--Prisoner Hit Guard Over Head With Crow Bar and Se- cured His Liberty tor an Hour--Re- captured by Mounted Patrol. Guard M. B. Jenkins was killed Saturday morning at the Prison Farm. when Thomas McCoskey, a { convict at Portsmouth penitentiary made a desperate attempt to escape. McCoskey, after a very few min- utes of liberty was recaptured, due in a great measure to the presence of mind and courage of Samuel E. Sewell, quartermaster at the Mowat Sanatorinm. : Guard Jenkins was in charge of tive convicts who were engaged in building fences at the prison farm on Johnson street, mear Palace street. About 8.30 o'clock Guard Jenkins was showing the men how he wanted a post hole dug and he had his back turned to McCoskey The ground where the work was be. ing done was very rocky, and the convicts had crow-bars with which te , dig out the rock. McCoskey had one _ of these bars in his hands and when _ the guard tured 'his back and " stooped over he brought the bar 4 down on Guard Jenkins' head crush- _ ing in the right side of the guard's skull, a The other convicts made an inef- ual attempt to detain McCoskey hgbut he broke away, and ran down ohmson street toward the city. In: nate Dickinson, No. H961 ran over (to Mr. 8B. G. Hill's house near the | mcene of the assault and telephoned . to the Warden's office. ---- 8. E, Sewell Follows Convict. che Meantime Mr. 8. BE. Sewell, of L the Mowat Sanatorium who had been in the city doing some buying, war coming along Johnson street, in hic _ 8utomobile. He noticed a man run. _ Bing down the road toward him with | something under his arm and as he . drew closer he saw that the man was 'dressed In convict's clothes and that ¢ he carried a crow-bar under his arm The man had passed his car by thie but Mr. Sewell turned his car round by driving down into the d took after him. The con- turned round and sew that he pursued, but he continued run 1 and paid no attention to the r. Mr. Sewell kept close to the man and when they came to To. ronto street, McCoskey in an attempt to evade his pursuer, turned north, and elreled round the garage of a . Tesident of that street, Summons Mounted Guard. Mr. Sewell saw a mounted guard | from the Penitentiary coming along the road, and he waved to him tc come ths other way and cut the gonviet off in front, The mousey did this, and Mr. Sewell jump- out of his car and continued the TSuit through a garden. The con. a barbed-wire fence: oY h drawn revolver and Me. key gave in without a struggle. i then ing on instructions from Coroner R; J. Gardiner. An inquest will be held The Murderer. Thomas McCogkey, alias Felton Makarasky, Maxime McKerchouck, and McKosky, No. K994, was sent- enced to two years in the Portsmouth penitentiary on May 27th, 1925, at the city of Toronto on two charges of theft. The very fact that he was doing outside work makes it clear that he was considered by the peni- tentiary authorities to be a reasonably Safe man, He only had five and a half months longer to serve, his time expiring on February 18th, 1927, and his record while in Portsmouth was good. McCoskey has a previous eri- minal record, however, having served on three occasions in the Montreal district jail during 1921 and 1922, and he put in one short-term at Bur- wash. x Native of Russia. McCoskey is 41 years of age, and was born in Russia, where he has a wife living, He came to Canada in 1912 and apparently Bot into neo trouble until 1921. The penitentiary authorities had never noticed any- thing aboiit him which would lead to the belief that he was in any way dangerous. Guard Jenkins was considered one of the most likeable and efficient guards at the Penitentiary. He Joined the force about six years ago and this 48 the second year during which he has been in charge of a gang working on the fence construction. His sid- den death is felt keenly among his fellow-guards and the flag on the penitentiary is flying at half mast in his memory. There is not the slightest doubt that McCoskey will be charged with murder in the first degree and tried at the fall assizes before Judge Logie in September, Was Strack Four Times. That Guard Jenkins was struck no less than four times on the head, with & crow bar, was the statement of Mary and Kenneth Potter, who witnesses to the assault. On Saturday morning at 11.30 o'« clock a representative of the Whig called at the Potter home, and se cured a: first hand story of the as. sault. According to the young people they were going down Johnson street, with their cows for the purpose of putting them in the pasturs. They had reach. ed the corner of Johnson street and the Bath Road, when they saw the five convicts in charge of Guard Jen- kins working on the prison proper ty. Just as they were passing Guard Jenkins sald "Good morning." Just at the time that Jenkins wished the Potter children "Good morning," Con. vict MeCoskey came up from behind and without warning he struck Jen- were eye | Liberalism Here Now as Active [SPS 200 20va0e see | + [# GIRL THROWN FROM + > AUTO ON TOP OF COW # + en * # Nelson, B.C., Aug. 28.--Land- # ing on a black cow probably saved Miss Ida Fleury, Nelson school teacher, some broken 'bones when she and three other people were shot out of an automobile that overturned when out of control, near Proc- > # tor, yesterday afternoon. » {PACIFIC FLIGHT HERO KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Half an Hour After His Fall. Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 28.-- Commander John Rodgers is dead. The hero of the attempted non- the subsequent nine-day drift of the PN-9 in the treacherous waters, died in the Philadelphia pavy yard base hospital at 4.09 o'clock yesterday afternoon, thirty-nine minutes after a type V-7 land plane he was pilot- Ing fell into the Delaware near the naval flying field. Another Woman Swims Channel Dover, Eng., Aug. 28.--Mrs. Clemington Carson, New York, mother of two children, and well known as' a long distance swimmer, to-day swam the English Channel. Mrs. Cirson's victory was more impressive, inasmuch as Frank Perks, Eng- lish swimmer, who started with her last night and swam most of the way on her trail, was forced to quit when a mile and a half from the English shore, after being in the water more' than fourteen hours. Except for a record of four- teen hours and thirty-one min- utes made by Miss Ederle, Mrs. Carson broke all previous re- cords, her time being fifteen hours. Mrs. Cason was former. ly Amelia Cade, a native of Denmark. « ----------n Caught Robbing Store. Brockville, Aug. 28.--Frank Hughes and Kenneth Grant, two Brockville young men, were appre- hended by a local constable at an early hour this morning while in the act of robbing D. W. Downey's store. ns E. W. Beatty, president of the C. P. R. says experienced observers say Canada's wheat yield wil] be larger than so far announced. ------ | Commander John Rodgers Died | stop flight across the Pacific from | San Francisco to Honolulu and of | "County Councillor Says Bob Bushell SHORTAGE OF Likely to Win by 1,000 Majority 20,000 HEN HE WEST Harvest Situation Is Reported as Very Acute. LITTLE INEWPLOYNENT Inthe East Is the Chief Cause of the Reduced Number of Harvesters. Ottawa, August 28. --There will be "Well, how's Bob Bushell getting along out in your section?" asked a Whig reporter of a county coun- cillor from the north west part of the riding on Friday. "He's is going to do fine," was the reply. "There is a rallying to his cause that has quite surprised me. land if he does as well in other sec- | roms a8 he will do in ours, he will { { beat Dr. Bdwards by a thousand." "Well, that's a pretty big esti- | mate," sald the scribe, | "I know it is," said the farmer, "but you have mo idea of the way [ the feeling has changed. throughout j the county this last few months. The | farmers are getting wise to Dr. Ed- {wards. They are reading for them- selves, and they are beginning to realize that he is .not the kind of a i man they should send there if they { | a probable shortage of 20,000 men |" needed to harvest the grain crops of the three prairie provinces and the situation is serious, according the Canadian Departmeént of Labor. This shortage is after the second series of harvester trains from the maritime provinces and from . the provinces of Ontario and Quebec will have reached the west. This series will take about 4,000 men, the railways estimate. Mr. Rigg stated that he had received telegrams the west impressing the urgency of more men to save the crops and he added that British Columbia and the eastern provinces had not sent half the number that was needed. In a final effort to get mére men from the east another series of har- vest trains will be ran. They will be from the maritimes on Septem- ber 3 and from Quebec and Ontario Sept 4. Employment conditions in the east are much improved over previous years, which has resulted in few men from the east being in the po- sition of searching for work, Robb Can Reduce Taxation Further Stratford, Aug. 28.--Hon. J. A. Robb, Minister of Finance in the former King Government, ad- dressing a capacity audience in the city hall here last night, re- viewed among other things the reduction in taxes in the coun- try and declared that if he were accorded the honor of bringing down the next annual budget he could further reduce taxation. As It Was in the Das of Laurier The Meighen Government Is Mackenzie King Will Have a | All Other Groups--Kingston Will ~~ Prophesied That y of Fifteen Over Do Hs Share by Electing Halliday. The militant aggressive Liberal. Ism that is behind Jim Halliday this election, and that is going to elect him, seems to be of the same type that is waging the right all over the kened . | country, Liberalism has awa as it has not done since the days of Laurier, and everywhere A ---------------- story that the Conservatives will get twelve seats in that Province this time?" 4 "I wish there was," he confided, "I would feel 8 lot happier. But there's nothing in it. We will do well it we get two." are | "Do you really think that the Ldb- | | t ferals are going to have the : est &roun?" he was asked by his _ : "I don't think anything about ft. to know, not CREDIT ACCORDED to's sateen toss wy m4. mae] 10 W, l. COVERDALE | director of employment services of! |For New Era in Canada Steam= | ships Affairs--His Great | Organizing Ability. Important developments which have been in progress in connection with the-affairs of Canada Steamships { Lines, Limited, within the past two | cent deeision to materially expand | the scope of the company's opera- | tions iserve to recall the important role which has been played by the present chief executive, W. H. Cover- dale. Coming to the company with the reputation of a corporation engineer and organizer of extensive experi- ence and skill at a time when its fortunes were suffering from a vari- ety of adverse circumstances ue nas been successful within a compara- tively short time in rehabilitating its affairs and under the changea con- ditions it is now regarded in high financial circles as being on the way to a career of success and financial prosperity. It is conceded that it has a great opportunity before it as the greatest of inland waterways transportation concerns, and everything now points to it playing a greater part in de- veloping into a great asset to the trade and commerce of the Dominion and a profitable enterprise for the shareholders. It is generally conceded that Mr. Coverdale was faced with no easy task when he undertook to guide it out of the difficulties with which it was beset. That he has succeeded in placing the company in a much sounder position and one from which it can face the future with greater confidence, is now no longer ques- tioned. After being approximately five years without dividends the pre- ferred shareholders are now prac- tically assured that in the coming year they w'll olice again receive a regular return on their investment. It augurs well for the company at the same time that the business out look is much brighter and every- thing now points to the present sea- son of navigation being ome of the || most successful in its history, This combination of favorable ecircum- stances has been reflected by a de- cided improvement in the value of the company's securities in the Canadian stock markets. Mr. Coverdale's methods of direct: ing the affairs of the company have want legislation that really bene- fits the farmers." ' "And you really think Bob Bus- hell is going to win?" said the scribs as he was leaving. "Yes," said the county councillor, "I do. The farmers are right be- hind him. We have & good organiza- tion, and this time we are going to get the vote out. You must re- member," he continued, "that .in 1925 Dr. Bdwards polled very few more votes than he did in 1921, and if we had got the vote out he would have been defeated. We are going to get it out this time, make no mis- take, and we're going to send Bob Bushell to Ottawa to see if he can't do something for us." and we're going to send Bob Bughel | to Ottawa to see if he can't do some- thing for us." a] Dog Races in Quebec Province Are Illegal Quebec, Aug. 28--Dog races, as, they are carried on in Montreal, are | illegal, according to an opinion gl- | ven by the Department of the At- torney-General of the province. Many complaints were received re- cently and the department was ask- ed for a ruling. After a careful study of the ques tion the advisors of the department have come to the conclusion that from | or three years culminating in the re. | 10S races are an infraction of the law and cannot be tolerated. As a consequence jnstructions have been given to prévemt any such . racss from being held in the future. Ae- tion will be taken against thos? who organize them in Quebec Province. -------------------- ELECTION AT NAPANEE. For Position of Reeve--Ten Acres Barley Yields Well, Napanee, Aug, 28.--~Only two can- didates who were nominated on Tuesday evening for reeve, qualified, 'They were Frank S. Boyes and Wil- liam G. Paul. The voting will take TENTIARY GUARD WITH A CR TARIFF ISSUE BIG QUESTION IN ELECTIO Meeting Held in | the Progressive Candidate. THE ROBB BUDGE Has Meant More to the Far Than Any Other Measure Sing nfederation, : Despite the inclement weather most successful meeting in the inte ests of R. J. Bushell, was held in Women's Institute Hall, Pittsbu on Thursday evening. Mr. Geo. ] land, ex-reeve, presided, and in course of his remarks stated that considered the grea; question moment to the country in the sent contest is the tariff issue. other matter of real importan: the country at large need seriously considered. He was | that the audience was to hear of their own men, a practical er, Mr. Jos. McGrath, discuss | matter, Mr. Jos. McGrath. Mr. McGrath prefaced. his by &tating he had no axe"to gh the present campaign. It was Question of man or party with From a farmer's standpoint he given a great deal of thoug! the tariff, and how ft affected farmer, and-he was so convinced of the evil effects of high faritf to whole country that he felt it ad to do what he could to explain position to: the voters. To hi tarift' was the only fssue. The pering campaign against place next Tuesday, Thomas Chalmers, Adolphustown, | threshed ten acres of barley that yielded 740 bushels. DROVE OVER CROSSING INFRONT OF A TRAIN Foolhardy Act of a Motorist at the Oataraqui O.N.R. Crossing. It Is nothing less than a miracle that many people, travelling in mo- tor vehicles are not killed 'at the C.N.R. crossing at Cataraqui, for no other reason than that the drivers think that they can beat the trains. People living near the crossing state that almost every day of the week there are dozens of narrow escapes. On Wednesday morning last, a re- presentative of The Whig, who was driving in a westerly direction, held his.breath when he saw an American car dash 'in front of a 0. N. R. freight train. The train was within titty yards of the crossing travelling in an easterly direction, when the tourist deliberately. drove fin' front of the oncoming train, although the engineer was blowing the whistle at the time. : ' The general opinion of motorists who travel over that crossing day after day is that the place is safe the man at the wheel wiil to look for trains. creed was merely a snare set the elector. The farming commu was beginning to wake up to fact that in the tinal analysis it about eighty per cent. of the tas Mr, MeGrath quoted figu show that the Robb Budget meant more to the farmer then | other measure since Confed The Kingston Standard had ¢ it the Forke Budget and he was PY to believe the Farmers' F . a great deal to do with the fn of the Budget. It was the best t) any political party had ever done fo the farmers in the way of reducts taxation, as it practically wi the income tax so far as 1 were concerned. It lowered ¢ of automobiles and farm n It is true, he said, that Dr. Bdw: claims he is not a high tarief but party comes first with him no. matter how he feels i he always votes with his 'party fof high tariff measures He she ¢omparison the fallacy of Rt. Arthur Meighen's promise to tect the Canadian farmer " brick" with the Americans. He cussed the Customs! Scandal, Duncan report, Dr. Edwards' ises to the electors of the and concluded by o them all as 50 many issues r 8 confuse and: mislead the people, | urged bis hearers to consider whole = question from a | standpoint and to cast their the 14th &f September not Edwards, not for Bob us for 'the man and the would help to carry out the of serving the farmers and the standard of the whole nity. : iy Tribute to The chairman then called Bushell, the Farmers' candid