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'Faue FOUR (HE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1928 GIRL'S AFFIDAVIT SHOWS JUSTICE GREATLY ERRED London Man is Wrongfully Given Five Year Sentence, . She Says London, Ont, Oct. 23.--Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Crown Prosecutor, announced at the Assizes yesterday afternoon that William Hasins, of 264 Talbot street, who last week was sentenced to serve five years in penitentiary for ths killing of William Galloway, of Loadon, in an auto accident on Springbank Drive last March, had evidently been "the victim of a miscarriage of justice," and steps are to be taken to unde the apparent wrong. The case is one of the strangest in the annals of justice in this city. Haskins, when sentenced, strongly protested his innocence and claimed that it was not the car he had driven that killed Galloway as he walked to his home in South London. Since that time it is claimed that he has criticized the fact that the jury which convicted him spent only 15 minutes review- ing his case. Addressing Mr. Justice Logie, who last week sentenced Haskins, Hon, Mr. Guthrie, when the jury had left the room to consider the Harlton murder case, said. "I would like to mention a case tried before your Lordship on Wednes- day of last week. In the King v. Hasking the prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced by your Lordship to § years in Kingston Penitentiary, ' Another Man Implicated "On Friday, or Saturday it trans. pired that certain persons laid new information before the County Crown Attorney, of a fairly defin- ite nature, implicating another per- gon in the killing of Galloway. Two ladies have volunteered in- formation and given their afidav- Its," continued Mr. Guthrie, exhib- Jting two documents to the Judge, "and the Crown Attorney has thought it his duty to lay an in- Hy , bilious, constipated? Take N-NA REMEDY --tonight. This mild, safe, vegetable remedy wil: have you feeling fino by morning. You'll enjoy free, thorough Bawel actic.: witheu" & sign of eviping or discomfort, Onl~ 26e, formation against the man now complained of and 1 believe a charge of unlawful or reckless driving has been laid against tae man. If the evidence now submit- ted by these afidavits is true 1% may be there has been some mis- carriage of justice in the case of askins." In reply to a question of the Judge, Mr. Guthrie stated that he He added Henderson should now go to the Court of Appeal, and stated that in all probability would be granted the wrongfully convicted man by the Appellate Division. Thus Haskins woula probably be free tomorrow. Mr. Justice Logie made it clear that' this would be dome, DISMISS JURY AT HARLTON TRIAL Five Hours' Deliberation Fail to Produce an Agreement London, Ont., Oct. 23.--Five hours fruitless effort for a basis of agreement ended at 11 o'clock last night when the jurors in the trial of Edward Harlton, accused of murder, were dismissed by Mr, Justice Logie and the prisoner was sent back to jail to await trial at the Winter Assizes. He is charg- sed with murdering County Motor. cycle Officer John Waddell, The foreman having reported that the jurors could not agree up- on a verdict, his Lordship caution. ed the twelve to avoid discussion of the case with any one and con- cluded the Asgizes. Thed efense organized by J. M, Donahue, the prisoner's counsel, proved effective in placing in the minds of the jurymen that shadow of doubt which under British law must weigh in the prisoner's favor, Harlton admitted the shooting, but claimed self defence and at least some of the jurors were unable to expel from their minds the im- pression that Harlton may have told the truth, when he claimed that he believed his own life was imperiled as Waddell covered him with a gun, CURRIE TO RESUME DUTIES IN ANOTHER TWO MONTHS Montreal, Oct, 23.--S8ir Arthur Currie will not resume his duties as Principal of McGill University for about two months, according to a cable recently received at the office of the Acting Principal, Dr. Charles Martin, Dean of the Medi- cal Faculty, It is now expected that Sir Arthur will return shortly be- fore or during the Christmas sea- son. He has fully health and at the present time is continuing his vacation in the South of France, immediate bail | Police recovered his |B Toronto, Oct. 23--Statements by Robert G. Brien, former Provincial ice officer in the Kitchener dis- trict, that he was dismissed from the force because he persisted in enfore- ing the Liquor Control Act contrary to the wishes of Ahern " have been countered by Alfred Cuddy, Act- ing Commissioner of the Provincial force, with the claim that the form- er's activities in enforcing the law had nothing to do with his being asked to resign. 0 Ina lengthy report on the situation to Attorney-General Price--a report which Colonel Price emphatically en- dorsed last eveni sting Commis sioner Cuddy h up Brien as a man "who would not pay his just debts;" who has been a source of annoyance ever since he has been with the department, "because he would make no effort to meet his ob- ligations; and who, in effect, was warned by Commissioner Williams five months that the axe would fall on his head unless he turned over a new leaf, In Debt, Says Cuddy Mr. Cuddy still holds to the opin- ion he voiced when Brien's state- ments were first published in the press--that the latter could not hon- estly do his duty and be indebted to a bootlegger, "And in my judgment" Mr, Cuddy reports, "it is no credit to Brien that he prosecuted Brown, the bootlegger, to whom he owed money for furniture, as it might be one way to get his debts paid for that furni- ture," Commenting on the Cuddy report, Attorney-General Price says that Brien had never appealed to him that he had been unjustly treated, "If he had appealed to me," said Colonel Price, "as an officer of the force, I would have heard any appli- cation he might have made, consider- ed it on its merits as an interdepart- mental affair, and, had I found him to have been unjustly treated, would have promptly reinstated him, With "Mental Reservation" "But Brien let General Williams get away to England before he made any representations -- and then he made them through the press to the publie, If the conditions he mentions in his statement were rampant in the Provincial Force, would I not be a good person to hear of them--across my desk? That being so, and having received Mr, Cuddy's report, I am in- clined to look upon Mr. Brien's state- ments with a great deal of mental re- servation, "In other words, I believe my Com- missioner, my Assistant Commission er and my Inspector of the Kitchener district, rather than believe Mr, rien, "Notwithstanding all this, I have asked for information on every case that Brien has brought out, so that I may go into them personally. As far as I have been able to investigate at the present time, I haven't found any evidence that would substantiate the Brien statements, "My information is that enforce- country, ment of the Liquor Control Act in Kitchener and Waterloo County has "Ishown steady improvement since the O.T.A, days. I am keeping the mat- ter very closely in hand. My officers | -------- RUSSIA DELIGHTED WITH U, S, CONTRACT ------ Moscow, Oct, 23.--Soviet news- papers, and some Russian Govern- ment officials see in the $21,000,- 000 contract by the Soviet Union with the eneral Electric Company, not only a forerunner of United States investments im this but an entering wedge which may ultimately lead to Government recognition. The newspaper Economic Life, hails the contract as a breach in "the credit' blockade" which it says Great Britain sought to en- force after her diplomatic break with Moscow, i The signing of the contract was announced last Wednesday in New York, It called for the delivery of American electrical apparatus valued at more than $20,000,000, the payment basis being 25 per cent. before shipment, with the re- mainder covered by trade accept- ances falling due within five years. NEWS OF CLEARANCE REFUSED BY STATES A Regina, Oct. 23.--Declaring that he had been instructed by written request on the etationery of the Federal Department of the United States Government not to give no- tification by telephone of Cana- dian liquor shipments for export from the Port of Windsor, Ont. W. D, Euler, Canadian Minister of National Revenue, has given an in- terview here dealing with liquor ex- ports to the United States. Notice of such exports are being sent In writing weekly by Canadian au- thorities at the request of the United States Federal Department, Mr, Euler stated. HISTORY OF FRENCH NAVAL PARLEY 18 GIVEN 0 PRESS Fear of Embarrassing Other Powers Said to Have With. held Publication London, Oct. 23--A full history of the inception and negotiation of the naval compromise between France and Great Britain was made public last night by the British Foreign Of- fice. Lord Cushendun, Act Foreign Minister, in the absence of Sir Aus- ten Chamberlain, explains that the only reason for withholding publi- cation of the papers was the fear of barr i other Gover t what might have seemed an attempt to force their hand. The text of the agreement follows: "Limitations which the Disarma- ment Conference will have to deter- mine will deal with four classes of warships : "], Capital ships; that is, ships of over 10,000 tons or with guns of more than 8-inch calibre. "2. Aircraft carriers of over 10,000 tons. "3, Surface vessels of or below 10,- 000 tons, armed with guns of more than 6-inch and up to &inch calibre, "4, Ocean-going submarines; that is, over 600 tons. Washington Limitations "The Washington Treaty regulates limitations in Classes 1 and 2, and the Disarmament Conference will have only to consider the method of ex- tending these limitations to powers nonsignatory to this treaty. "As regards Classes 3 and 4, the final Disarmament Conference will fix a maxi tc ge applicable to all powers, which no power will be allowed to exceed for the total of vessels in each of these respective categories during the period cover- ed by the convention. Within this maximum limit each power will at the final conference indicate for each of these categories the tonnage it proposes to reach, and which it un- dertakes not to exceed during the period covered by the convention." The compromise, or agreement, it- self is quite a brief document, but the white paper consists of forty-five pages, starting with a large number of extracts of speeches delivered at the meetings of the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament by the statesmen of different nationalities, leading up to the divergence of opin ion between the British and French Governments and the opening of new pourparlers last March in an effort to arrive at a compromise. White Paper Issued In a white paper made public by the British Government tonight it is revealed that, under the date of Oct, 9, Lord Cushendun, Acting British Foreign Secretary, sent a circular to all countries on the League of Na- tions Preparatory Disarmament Commission in which he said: "The observations of the Gove ts of the United States, Italy and Japan on the British-French compromise proposals in the matter of naval ar- mament limitation having now been received, the present moment affords oppo. tunity of presenting for your in. formation and guidance an outline of recent discussions and correspondence on the subject. _ "As a result of unauthorized and incomplete disclosures, the nature and scope of this compromise became the object of public speculation often of an erroneous and misleading charace ter. 2 3 3 aN LA i = % : 3 Oshawa Daily Times Adverticers THE faculty of building advertising that commands attention and sells merchan dise is a highly specialized attainment---one that only the versed, the skilled, the talented and the adept can perform with maximum efficiency and resultfulness, \ are watching it closely, too, and 1 am determined that the Provincial Force shall not suffer by the fact that Mr, Brien is no longer on duty in that county," REDUCED PENALTY FOR DRUNKENNESS DECLARED LIKELY Despite official statements to the contrary, some radical tinkering is kely to be done, after all, with the Liquor Control Act at the next ses- sion of the Ontaric Legislature, A move is now on foot, it is under- stood, to have the penalties section of {the law so altered as to provide a fine 'of $50 or ten days in jail for a sec- ond offense for drunkenness instead of the "$200 or two months" sentence which the courts hand out at the present time. Sponsors of the movement claim that the existing punishment for a "two-time drunk" is entirely too sev- ore, especially in cases where many onths haye elapsed between the rst and second breaches of the act, iemency has had to be extended to 1 good many second offenders since the L.C.A. came into effect, it is re- ported, simply because the $200 fine was more than they could pay, and the alternative jailing for two months ! placed such a hardship on the offend- ers' families that remission of the sentences was considered to be the only satisfactory way out of the sit- pation, Introduction of a reduced penalty next session will probably mean that no further sentences for second of- fenses will be remitted. Those who now press the Government for an amended law hold to the belief, it is said, that if the punishment is whit- tled down to the size they advocate, no offender should look for cl y if he "falls by the wayside." 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