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1e conversation with as about how the re u the lantern, witness transpiring. Mr. Jus-. commented that this t witness -O'Neil had :1 me had I : : the first ti: Lighe barn. `IP11. _ 1pted `Suicide accuse'd.i s _att J- 1.. -T1-__,., _"' ' ' away L 119 what tse'di aftempt '-Barrie police `(all n 13+ Ann Nd One Wants To be Scard To D/eath. ` d:idn t seen I ...-- T |lAllln :ot it vs from THE ROBERT REFORD CO., LTD. (`.1-uonnn Ran an}! Mlnllinnnn S1-n I` took s I could I else but trousers n to ex- 1e Thurs- Did` the blood? -- 9) an -`Ruby 1 Igknew when n the say it an vuu O'Neil said he fed four horses, cleaned) the mangers of fourteen head of cattle, bedded them all and had cleaned: the horse stable and was curry combing a beast when Mr. `Robertson entered the barn. Following the accident to :Rob- ertson, -0 Nei1 said he never as'ked the old: man if he was hurt. Run and get Ruby, the injured man alone said. I cuggH 25.? 0'30! -Don; -"`ou re the fastest bhired mad: I Ever heard of, said Mr. McFa`d`- en. And you were too? V55 7! .'.L.llLl Yes. Frat `nun: gunnntn ILU-1 PLUELCDD W1llLll L133 IJCCII luau: [K date, the contribution of one ` mat stands out head and shoulders above al others. This man, Charles Y. Knight, realize: that so long as carbon troubles and valv grinding were necessary, motorist: could not hope to enjoy constant, care free performance; not an endless an: even ow of power. The World s Simplest Engine His 1nvention-the patented, high compression sleeve-va ve engine-i: ' acknowledged by en "nearing expert: to be the simplest an most eicient 0 all automotive ower plants. It ha; automatically a ded scores of thou sands of extra miles to the life and use fulness of a motor car-and at the same time has saved its owners their share 0. the $420,000,000 tax which motorist: on this continent paid lastyear for the correction of damage done ?by carbor troubles and valve grinding. The sleeve-valve engine is simplicity itself. NORMAN M. MARSHALL You cou1*dJ have helped him in alone, you didn t need Ruby? suggested the `Crown Attorney. I suppose not. Where s Ruby? O'Neil asked when he reached the house. .-vv- vwwvnvnuabov u u A-A\l\-iLlI I bea-t it right back to the barn expecting Ru`by to follow behind, said witness. I never looked over my shoulder to see if she was com- ing. I never knew she was in the `barn. H1l`T-_..IL 4L_1. ,n_,_,_ ,, an 1 s -v-- --... -v.-.v.-vu. u... ..-.--..:v- Ruby did` not answer, but Mrs. I Robertson did, inquiring if the al- leg`e'dI accident was serious. I l(`I 1,,,: sin! 1 Luc Wa ALLANDALE J. 9 high- engine-is experts of has thou- use- same of motorists the carbon F all the remarkable automotive inventions, and all the mechan- ical progress which has been made to contribution one` man all realized valve motorists care- and Md ONeilemainedJ silent. He said he saw no smoke` on his return. He went traight to the block where he 1eft:Robertson. The lat- ter Was gone. `The lantern had gone out. He groped in the semi- darkness for it was just getting light. ~` u1r,,,'_,,__ 11 1 . 11' -a q __ ---- You`never called out `Mr. Rob- ertson, Mr. Rohertson ? 117.1 1 can ... .. I I'1E- HUDBHI !'\El'\JI'\|J` DU" I-II: Corner Bay and Wellington Sta. `Toronto, Telephone ELgin 3471 . . . fuitly cz wonderful inventzon that bmzis/.2es t/aefour major motor troubles-cleaning carbo12-grz'na z'ng valves-excessz'12e upkeep-perz'odz'c lay-ups Mr. McFadden. Didn t; you in- dicate to her that her father was injured in the cow stable and wanted her. Isn t it strange that you didn t look for her? f\'`1- .` .u_ u -vv 0 '- .-_-__, _-__. .....,...-...v. ``I thought; I cou1'cMA'1r;d him. A Tribute to Charles Y. Knight vs/vr9vo%vo-g, ""'* -?` ' Copyriht b;Unitea Fatuxe '3.icat'. Inc. 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The blaze was coming up between there and the old cattle stalls. It shot up from `beneath the manger and burned the side of my head. I don't know how my arm got burned, the prisoner related rap- idlv ;dy i?: :1 uayycucu. When I went back to the block where I left him, Robertson was gone, O Neil continued. I start- ed to look around the passage, a- longside the turnip bin anidi found` the smoke too thick. HVh1.:.. :_ LL- 2..-; .._- 1--___ 1,__,,1 xuay Ruth asked me `Where s mam- ma? and I told her to go and get help. That was after I was burn- ed." unr1...;. .1.:.| --_'.- 3.- __q', ,, |bu;:nV\gl1z;f, dlid ydu dlo when you got (IT 1.--]. 21. -.-L L1_, , ,,, 1 - INC DCIIV-II Robertson never said a wot while I was helping him to at] block of wood, ONei1 went on Where was the lantern? In the feed passage in front 4 the black'cow." TL ----.-`I_I..9L 1.- ______ L'L,_, , ,,,,' It wo_u1dn t be over three min- utes from the time Robertson en- tered the barn until the acci'd'ent happened. n'Inn T 1!?l\VI"' 1-\nn1r `IA I-`nan L1nn`o unuou UG UL uc VVULIJUH. U want Ruby, O'Neil replied. He did not wait for her, but immedi- atly returned to the barn. `Witness said the black cow h`ad knocked Mr. Rdbertson backwards" on the concrete floor by a sudden twitch of the head. The horns on the cow had been cut quite close, he said. (11-gA1____;____ __,__A,_ __!'l '1 ;uuI.'rJ: npvvy , Luau]-uuu, Guns` r act, Preatgon Garages are pe act In desxgn and a source nf rnal latisfaction- `w`L"I`-:Ilem;x`1`1'1st be or he rep but ba1 `1l7'N.nm... -...'.J ti... L`I....`I.. LLU UGCQ Your father s wants you, 0 Nei1 tin. ((7.. `L, 'L_.'l1,, 1,, " 'b':~Yea'1'i7f.{ Ehe'b$$:";n"d't2i'ing a plan of the barn in his hand, faced the jury at therail to tell them where he had entered the barn on `the fatal morning. ' HA Innnnu 1-Ha 'Inn4-nan-v. an 4-1:... And- UVL u Azor put his arm around cow s neck, the animal gave a j and knocked him to the oor _f1 his osition on the manger. grab ed -him and dragged 1 clear, setting him down on a bli of wood back of the stalls. Go and get Ruby, I m hurt, asked O -Neil, who ran to house. ((`7-.-.. .D-L1- -__)_. `L__,,L , I 91110 ,``Is he badly hurt? asked Mrs. Robertson I l('I"l'- ----__L L- _-. 1, H 1 I `I UIIV J-G HG]. .lllUJ.'lll.ll.5 0 `He hung his lantern on the oat chute, fed four horses and` cattle, after cleaning the mangers out. 0 Nei1 found the `black cow loose just as Azor Robertson entered. ghey attempted to give it a pow- er. _ _ , _ __;_ 1._-_ _-____ ,,,_,_,,1 .1 v-av luv- -or O'Neil on Stand Geo. O'Neil, the accused, took the st`and\at 3.20.` He gave his age as 47 and proceeded with his evi- dence in low voice, being allowed to sit d-own on production of a doc- tor s certicate. He is suffering from neuritis. (IT 1.-.! L--.. ---_'J.`L LL- 'l\_1.-_.L LL Ulll 513 ML lM|Do I had been with the Robert- sons one year when the re oc- curred-, `he started. On the morn- ing of February 4 -I dres-sed about 6 o'clock, went out to the barn with a lantern. I was alone. A.-. . Jug. Murray Pettit, farmhand, stated that after the re the lantern was standing intact on the stable oor, all but the glass, which had melt- ed. Witness is `a nephew of the late Azor Robertson and a few days before the re while paying a visit he borrowed a gallon of gasoline for his car. He saw a ve-gallon can in the drive-shed. The can was roduced and identi- fied. It was alf full of coal oil when he first saw it. The day of the re it was sitting out in the yard, empty. Tn Anfnnnn nnnunl un'-nae: c`u'ir1 _ya.I.'u, cunyuy. To defence counsel witness said that he had on occasion helped his grandather give powders to the black cow, the only black one in the herd. 1-- .. ... :-1 15; 0 Lqj EH9 U&1'1l. U11 ure. Azor and Ruby are in`there, O'Neil told him, Eointing to the barn. He had by t is time secured a top coat, but wore do shirt or .}1_n_ The re was still burn- C353 I01` D113 U1'UWlh When the O"Neil trial resumed Friday afternoon Joseph Rogers, farmer, the rst witness, said pris- oner told him after the re which destroyed the Robertson barn in which the charred bodies of the late Azori Robertson and his daughter, Mrs. Ru'by Martin-, were found on Februai 4 last that he (O'Neil) and Robertson were giv- ing a cow a powder when the `an- imal became obstreperous, threw the aged man'to the concrete oor upsetting the lantern, and setting the barn on re. HA...... .....I 'l3uL.. noun .'...J-Ln...` 9 (Continued from page 11) pressure and hermother for goitre prior to their deaths. "I'M": nvirlnnnn concluded` the pl'l0I'_I:0 u1_e1l' ueuuus. This evzdence concluded` the case for the Crown. 1171.... L1... l'\ [\Tn{l J-uh-:1 ungsuvnnna THE or HIS sromr usucus \ I beat it out he same 'door I avna 3n '7 . TUBBY her hurt and ) told Mrs. M wou1dn t .'l:-.'l TY- wor'd L the ._L -_. block d the a jerk ' from .-`. ur d he Mar- he the ;of I m held as a -material witness for that big case of `Mr. Robert- son s. Oh, is `that so? Well they've got you in here and they'll tor- tureyou now and string you up. the prisoner in the next cell is` al- leged) to have said`. `D.u.-'I1.-...4.:....... ;..L- Ill`..- 'n.-1__- 1t- LCSCU` LU uavt: i:t`1'U`. Recollections of Mrs. Ruby Mar- tin rose in AO Neil s `brain, and of the re and all that he had been through. `He was suffering intense- ly from his burns, he said: '``I do not remember anything` until I woke up in the hospital. `They told me I was found in the cell in a pool of blood. `That was the rst II knew my throat had been cut. 10 Neil spent "six weeks in the hospital. - uuvvn `VAL-n nay`... LA-.. 3.. 1.1.3.. th I: mus egomouvs; 4:411:-flu: vovA0:`[ Under cross-examination by Mr. McFadden, 'O Nei1 said` he intend- ed:- `to leave March I always got along with the old man, he said. And with Mrs. Robertson?" - "".She was pretty snappy at-tim- - . o ~ o A V U y I null!-4\4\AJ LJQIUJUT Referring to attempt to commit suicide in cells a'fter being locked up at one o'clock in the morning of February 7, `Mr. 'Cres'wicke asked O Neil to relate the happenings of. that night. He said he was locked in a cell and a prisoner in the next cell asked him what he was in there or. ` (KT)--- 1, ,1 ,1 , I O ` IXIILLC do. 77.. Picking up O Neil s tr Mr. Creswicke asked him ` plain the blood stains. I hadthose pants o'n the ` Jdiay before, killing pigs. D doctor say it was human bl He did. You heard him. Well, [I must have got it I d1;agged him fro: ll l\ICV d" M`: u. w.r ?gg9d IT1-3 A GU IUUUUIVDDUII` a. bench 1n t never knew 11 .coal oil. -He ed. 1'1! _`l_!_- ,_ As for the conversatic Thomas lDales started from admitted it transpiring. IV tice McEvoy t1 was the rst -O N agreed `With. T +n'|A l'l\..1.. ...... ..-_.. -- make the 1a1 "'i1H1}Za 2 the lantern at He never saw ' oil can used ai at 'Robertson s. `L .. L..._..`L .'_- L _ O Nei1 further ldlenied he had told! Mrs. `Robertson the cow kick- ed her husband, he said he used the `word hurt. He met Mrs. Robertson. He was stripped to the `waist. (011.- __I_. II N, `I `I `F "` ` `I {K Sail this fall for Southampton --Cherbourg--Antwcrp-Hamburg~- Liver ool-Glasgo\v--or Belfast via Cane 'an Pacic. Learn the leasures 01 two age aboard a luxurious mpress --raga Duchess-or comfortable cabin class ship. Low fall rates now effective. Frequent sailings. A For ruarvaliona apply your local agenl, or ' J. B. MACKAY, General Agent, C.P.R. Bldg., Toronto Phone Adelaide 2105. ` O 'I'I C II "`.DSy}.1e asked and that was 1: Ruby was in 1: `H45 T ,nwJrJln.1n 1' uuuc noncu luv uau J. 5661 rst time I the His LodJs~hip-She d:id1 Ruby was in the barn. _ O ~Nei1-That s what I 1 vuuy wan ~Ne1l- to mean. A .. m"IJ`i:a:>'111y way I got burned is the way I ve just told you. `That's all I can say. `LT . u.1.A .. ..:..:4..... 4... 1...`- 1`....:. an J. van nay. He asked a visitor to his Bed`- side Tater: Have they found the folks yet? vats +1\nV1 Iunuvn 3, EIIUI. Karly CL I./CL waru. O'Neil contradicted the evidence of witnesses as to what he is 'a11eg~ ed to have said: as to how he got his burns. (H'l'|`I._ -..1..- ____-_ 1 ..-u_ 1___,__-- ,1 3, w";'e`:uthey have. What shape were they in?" They were burned pretty bad. Th`at s all._ the conversation I can remember, said O'Neil. f\)\1 _:`l L J. UUGU Ila UGUIL DU one uaru. ' "`Botham was there. He asked me where 'Azor was and` 'I told him I didn't know. I went back to the house and put a guernesy shirt on an`d1 met |Ira Hastings. 'I didn't go back to the ham any more that I can remember. - n)\1'-:1 .1\-..:_.1 _-_:;__-_'_-1__ `I_,2__` ` *6"1~I`J:i"3zTi& positively beiri on the stairs leading to the mow, as told by IRu'th |Martin.' He added . that he let two horses out during the excitement, but for the life of him he couldn t remember` W 1511: Witness said on his return to the house. he` discovered! the top of his head, right `side of his face, arm and hand were severely burned. There were blisters two inches high. `He related how he had sup- ervised the removal of implements from the shed. He was in great pain. A neighbor ordered: him in- to the house and he didn't come out" again. The doctor arrived shortly afterward. n \Yn" nnv-I4--nntlnlnl-A11 Llnn l\IDI'4JAulA|a\ u WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM 00 When I gof out I saw Bredin s and Botham s hired men. I think I asked them to let the horses out. ' 7-"M? ;{'&3;'u'-}Ie-' .I1'I';7xI;t ripped [everything off over my head and then I beat it for the house. T. 1-lvnvu` On anal -Amman Ad-1:-.. -1;J.1;-_ Gnu vucu J. ucau an LU1.` hue 1l_U|J3|`:o I went to get some other clothes. I_ got them from Ruth. Mrs. Rob'- ertson went to get me a shirt and an undershirt, but I didn -t wait,, I beat it back to the bani. "(13..A-1...... -nu-.. J.L-..- `II- -_1--.I 5:. ccu wwu. I told |Da1e ..-.1-.-. ....4. :4. ..-- J. |u\II\L IJJ ke out it lantern, IHi_ ` Attempted ` -ll]. UIIU U -That etdl saying` he had left 1 'Robevrtson s feet. Law the ive-gallon coal ed all the time he was )n It was `kept under the tool shed, but he it was ever half full of e had never seen it us- ale as near as ca was nothing said O"Neil. dl 1 WV I 1's. ur bui :1. -.._.. _---_- 'L_`ID A, < rnone Aaeuuae .lU3g Canadian Pacic