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Enquiry Concluded on Saturday Morning Here Vol. XXIL. No. 84 Private Detective Allen Tells of $400 Paid Him for "Invesâ€" tigation" of Police. Source of This Not Revealed. Allen | Denies Intimidating Stenographer. Chief Paul Gives, Straight Denial of All Charges and Suggested Charges l Private Detective and District Conâ€" stable Robert Allen is being paid $400 â€"@a "flat rate" by some party whose name has not been divulged, for invesâ€" tigating Chief Ralph Paul and the Timmins police force, Mr. Allen revealâ€" ed at the police enquiry Saturday morning when he levelled accusations at the Chief. Of the four defence witnesses, Merâ€" vyn Salley, W. R. Dodge, Chief Paul and I. E. Dunn, Chief Paul was the only one who was on the stand for any length of time. He denied flatly that he had ever made any suggestions eithâ€" er to Provincial Constable J. W. F. Pretorius, Mr. Allen, or Rene Lortie that any two of them might work toâ€" gether in making illicit profits from the sale of gold. He denied that he had received any money from Mrs. Nellie Kremer for "protection" in her bootlegging activitics, He denied that he had ever taken any gold from Bill Splawnyck, or that he had taken any from the Boydâ€"O‘Brienâ€"Hemmingâ€"Bouâ€" ianger car. Inquiry Is Over Now The inquiry is all over. It ended at about 11.30 Saturday morning after I. E. Dunn, reliéf inspector, had shown that Mrs. Nellie Kremer had received $271.03 in relief in 1935, the year in which she claims she paid Chief Paul $150 "graft." gold seizure and sell the gold themâ€" selves: that Chief Paul told him he reâ€" ceived $200 a month from the Hollinâ€" ger: that the Chief had threatened him while he (Allen) was making the police investigation. Crossâ€"examined, he said his pay for the investigation, from Mr. Caldbick, was to be $400, and that he had arranged this price with Mayor J. P. Bartleman; that he knew of no reason why Chief Paul should need his assistance in any gold "rackâ€" et." Mervyn Salley, former deputy chief. said that Mrs. Kremer had never paid him the $50 she said she did, nor had she paid Chief Paul any money in his presence at any time. W. R. Dodge, chief assayer at the Hollinger, told of the nitric acid test Chief Paul said he had used on the metal taken from one Gogal who was with Bill Splawnyck; and that a bottle of metal produced by Mr. Kester conâ€" tained no gold. 4 Chief Paul Denies Accusations Chief of Police Raiph Paul told of taking the metal from Gogal, and of the test that proved to him it was not gold. He had never rented a room at the Goldfields hotel either for the purâ€" pose of receiving any money for Mrs. Kremer or for any other purpose, he said. He had searched the Hemmingâ€" O‘Brienâ€"Bovdâ€"Boulanger car but had found no gold in it. He made no proâ€" posals to Robert Allen, Provincial Conâ€" stable J. W. F. Pretorius, or to Rene Lortie regarding any scheme to profit from the sceizure and illegal sale Oof gold, he swore emphatically. Undet crossâ€"<xamination. he told Mr. Caldbick that he had some bank accounts but there was no money in them; that hi owned no property, or bonds, and that his total assets were practically nil He said he had received money from the Hollinger on occasions for the payâ€" ment of informers:; this had all beer He said he had received money from the Hollinger on occasions for the payâ€" ment of informers; this had all beer paid to informers. Mrs. Kremer On Relief L. E. Dunn. relief officer of the town produced town records to show that Mrs. Nellie Kremsr had received varyâ€" ing amounts of relief during 1935. Mr. Allen. "a private detective and also a district constable," was the first to take the witness stand and was the last witness for the investigators. He had met Miss McMillan at Mayor Bartlieman‘s office at 12.15 one Saturâ€" day, he said; he had explained that he was investigating certain matlters conâ€" cerning Chief Paul and to "tell m*, if she would, what she know." "Did you threaten her in any way?" asked Mr. Caldbick. "Ohn. no." she didn‘t tell you?" "NG."‘ "What is Mr. Caldsick trying to do, discredit his own witness?" Mr. Kester asked the judge. "This seems like a crossâ€"examinaâ€" tion." the judge said. "Let the witness tel} his own story." Wanted "Enlightenment" After the noon meeting, Allen had asked Miss McMilian to go to his place The Pioneer Paper of the Porcupine. Established 1912 Did you the town tell you J€ at two o‘clock. When she finally arâ€" rived, near three o‘clock, he told her he understood she could enlighten him on certain things" about the Chief. "I took down the substance of what she had told me and prepared a statement. She read it over, said it was correct, and signed it." "I‘d like to read part of it," said Mr Caldbick. "Not as being said by Miss McCMilâ€" "Not as being said by Miss McMil- lan," the judge told him. Mr. Kester objected to the reading of the statement. "You are not going to read it." was the judge‘s final ruling. "Do you know of your personal knowledge what is in the statement?" he asked Allen. ‘"‘No." "Did you put in this statement anyâ€" thing that Miss McMillan did not say?" asked Mr. Caldbick. "NO:" says He Made No Inducement "You‘ve beard Miss McMillan‘s eviâ€" dence as to the circumstances sutrâ€" rounding the signing of that statement. What have you to say to that?" Mr. Kester Objected but the judge | ruled that Mr. Caldbick was not in the position of prosecutor at a criminal trial and should be allowed liberties. "If they want to fight among themâ€" selves, all right," put in Mr. Kester. Mr. Caldbick repeated his question about the circumstances under whichl the was signed. "I say that I never used any induce-l ment at all to change her original, statement she had given Mr. Bartleâ€" man," said Mr. Allen. Miss McMillan‘s statement to the mayor was that she knew nothing against Chief Paul. "Did Chief Paul ever propose to you that he and you act together in the seizure of gold and split the proceeds?" It was on the first of May, 1935, that Chief Paul told him about searching car, Allen said. "He knew where he could go and get caches of gold. There was one cache to which he could atâ€" tach ownership. Thers was another cache some place that the ownership could not be attached to any person. We were to get the gold, then search the same place with other police. No one would know." un hoi cce 4 it mc sn mm ce omm enc ts mm "I told him no," Allen continued. "that‘s wrong. You shouldn‘t do that. He argued that it was useless to turn over the gold because nobody could prove ownership. I said I didn‘t want any gold that should be turned over to the crown." The Chief had not told Allen where he would sell the gold, Allen said. "Did he ever tell you of any other source of money he had than the Town of Timmins?" "The Chief told me he was receiving $200 a month from the Hollinger mine." "I gathered he was in their employ." Allen had been threatened by Chief Paul, he said. One evening he had been in the police station having a little conversation with the Chief when the Chief asked him how "the investigation was going on." "He knew that you were making an investigation?" asked the judge. "I‘m Not Threatening You" "I told him I was making a few inâ€" quiries. Hesaid ‘You want to watch yourself. Don‘t let your foot slip,‘ and he took a threatening pose over me. ‘I‘m not threatening you,‘ he said. ‘I‘m just warning you. And don‘t call me Paul, call me Chief." Then. said Allen, Pretorius came in and Paul went out. * The day previous, just as the inquiry Bartleman ? who tlemat Made Flat Rate to Mayor His usual fee for this sort of work was $10 a day Allen admitted, but in this case he had agreed with "them" that he would do it for a flat rate of $400. Mr. Caldbick objected to this sort of questioning but Judge Caron told Allen to answer. i1 Gon t Know. "I can enlighten you on that." inâ€" errupteéed Mr. Caldbick. "I‘m not." "Are the funds coming from Mayor Ehe Mopantr can enlighten you on that, tco, Mr. Caldbick. I‘m not going to tell my client is but it‘s not Mr. Barâ€" Published at Timmins, Jnt., Canada Every MONDAY and THURSDAY (Continued on Page Six) Allen‘s Advice Unbhorsed Mounties Still " Get Their Man" Opening of Enquiry on Annual Report Reveals Daring Adventures Friday Before the Judge By JAMES MONTAGNES | the ocean all the tir Central Press Canadian Whiter |came alongside with Ottawa, Oct. 22.â€"A report came in to the engines of the the Halifax office of the Royal Canaâ€" ablsd, and one man dian Mounted Police that a fishing from cold, hunger â€" boat was hours overdue. The cru‘ser , had been out in the « Preventor was ordercd out. and all day engine that would : hunted for the schooner. Not until the days. Closes the po following morning at dawn was the the Preventor not be boat sighted, 18 miles off Gull Rock, is a chance that the far from its reported whereabouts. perished before being Heavy seas were running, and the wind ; In a remote distr was blowing the ship farther out into a woodcutter, John I Canada, and when the. two policemen, . Sergeant D. Withers and Constable | but that the force is not y undertake more such mu: Cameron, started from Dawson the township policing. thermometer read 60 below zero, cerâ€" tainly no weather to go on a dog tSam Gypsy Murder Ca: Fifteen murders are incli trek of a few hundred miles. Nor did crimses for the year, and 0 the weather become warmer. It rose |cass of Russel Demitro, a g | usual. It was a quiet Ju to 50 celow., but that was the warmest the two encountered on their | when the gypsy camp near entire journey. INS., was attacked by a g Found Dead Trapper They journeyed through the mounâ€" tainous valleys and across frozen rivâ€" ers. Through bush and over open stretches where the wind beat stinging snow in their faces, they made their way. They hit the Pelly river, and folâ€" lowed its winding frozen course," with no letâ€"up in the extreme cold. Their dogs had to be constantly shod with, fur overshoes to prevent the river ice from tearing the skin off their feet in this low temprature. But they made the cabin, having been directed on the way by oth@r lonely settlers in that bleak land. They found Hoder‘s cabin dcor open. They found wreckage inside, the stove broken and its parts thrown about, the furniture broken, and Hoder dead on the floor. They also found the cause. Hoder made his own win®. A still was in the cabin. He drank himâ€" self insane and died after wrecking his cabin and all the means to keep warm in that cold weather. These are but two cases of the 1936 th report of the Royal Canadian Mounted qU Police. The Mounties still have a varâ€" ; ied life and har@hips of other days.‘ an Though there are now 2717 members in : be the force, and they use largely mechanâ€" | th ical means of transportation, their | ad work becomes increasingly greater each | ch year. They are undertaking the policing | mi of more federal and provincial statutes | stl every 12 months, and in the last year de have added municipal police work, with the town of Flin Flon in Northern Manitoja as a starter. The report ; ha states that requests for Mountie proâ€" | m tection have come from more bodies, of These scenes illustrate what Canada‘s mounties do in the far couple of hundred miles from the pole. CENTRE, raising the fla on the sea in the Hudson‘s Bay area, with Ekimaux.. TIMMINS, ONTARIO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 1936 Undertake many new forms of activity as daily routine the ocean all the time. The Preventor came alongside with difficulty, found the engines of the fishing coat disâ€" ablsd. and one man aboard, suffering from cold, hunger and exposure. He had been out in the open boat with an engine that would not work for two days. Closes the policse report: "Had the Preventor not available there Gypsy Murder Case Fifteen murders are included in the crimes for the year, and of these the cass of Russel Demitro, a gypsy, is unâ€" usual. It was a quiet June evening when the gypsy camp near Glace Bay, NS.. was attacked by a gang Oof five men. Criminal assault of the gypsY girls was evidently the intent of the attack, and a fight took place. The gypsies were numerically stronger than the gang, and with fists, rifles and knives the attackers were driven away. But not b2fore one of them, Victor McNeil, was shot and killed. The Mounties traced the killing to Frank Demitro, one of the gypsies. He was arrested on a charge of murder. had n men, and tified Ru had kill« jury disr Meanwhi busy round the Mounties, the added ballistic exp chemists and expe making. Members 0 PT: ickeC dded to the force in the past yEal ; been a clever police dog, the forâ€" r property of one of the sergeants the Alberta division. Dale, as the dog Mcounti 1€ A T el 1€ John Hode defenc camp 1€ a CchAnarg delved m e man \ ig found rict of t Mout npan bu i gang of f of the gy, intent of 1 VC Ti Yort: "HMad lable there wyould have SMIVEeLY he man ready to inal and epot 1i North ikon TK fou to (iingerea UCL He the fcootprints ler. ! house. Nose to illy lowed a trail 1 ink | Bruce Little. / HT h. TOP, a new outpost just a a new post is established. BELOW ed missing by the grapevine telegraph that brings news from one remote trapper‘s or woodcutter‘s cabin to anâ€" other. John Hoder was living alone a hundred miles up the Pelly river in small canyon. He was known to be a bit of a drinker, and when no word came from him, through the _ usual channels, the Mounties who go looking for missing persons in Canada‘s far North set out to look for woodcutter Hocde is called, has helped solve some diffiâ€" cult cases at the Calgary headquarâ€" ters. There was the fire in William Russell‘s farm hous*e. A ‘jig explosion wakened Russell one June night last year. Fire broke out, and when the Mounties came there was no way to trace the p:rson who hnad saturated the basement walls of the farmhouse with gasoline and had left an old suit of underwear aAlso saturated with gasoline. To the naked eye there were no clues, and the gasoâ€" line had taken out any fingerprints which may have remained on the suit. There evidently remained enough scent on the old suit for Dale. Despite the gasoline, he fsund the smell still lingered in the suit to coincide with the footprints in the grass outside the house. Nose to the ground,<the dog folâ€" lowed a trail which led to the home 0}' Bruce Little He was found to be inâ€" sane. The police had no trouble in making him confess soaking Russell‘s Sn makin basem The Mounties khave even become arâ€" chaeologists. In 17860 a French ship, the Bienfaisant, was sunk in the mouth of the Restigouche river, N.B., to save it from capture by the English, then at war with France. For years the vessel had lain in the channel. Gradually setâ€" tlers in the district had salvaged equipâ€" ment and lumber from the wreck. Then last year reports came to Ottawa that salvaging and dynamiting of the old ship was still going on. The Mounties were asked to protect the old ship. Then they were asked to zo further Ken. is2 idently kn an." His 1 emMl Have Become Om 1€ h 11 winter all over Published hief Witnesses at the judicial inquiry into charges miade against Chief of Police Ralph Paul on Friday, the first day of the hearing, before Judge Caron at the Oddfellows hall were: William Boyd, formerly of Timmins but now a Toronto unemployed, who told the story of one night when he was in a car in which there was a glass sealer of gold. The car had besn stopâ€" ped by Chief Paul and former Deputyâ€" Chief Salley, He was, Boyd said, sitting in the back seat of the car with a man named O‘Brien who later died at Kirkland Lake. No charges were laid after that evening. Witnesses Heard on Friday Morning Included W. Boyd, L. Hemming, Bill Splawnyck, M. Salley. No "Hearsay" Evidence to be Accepted, the Judge Ruled. "Protection of Court" Not Given Witness. Mervyn Salley, now of the Paymaster mine, who said he had seen Chief Paul take the "gold" from Gogal, put some of it in a saucer and pour nitric acid on it. The result was a smoking and bubbling that indicated the metal was brass. He had, he said, driven Hemâ€" ming‘s car from Schumacher on the evening referred to by Boyd and ming. He had searched the car as soon as he got it to the police station but there was no gold to be found. Says She Bribed the Chir{ Mrs. Nellie Kremer, who admitted having had at least two convictions unâ€" der the Liquor Control Act during the past two years, and who said she had given Chief Paul $50 on three different occasions, twice at the town hall and orce in a room hired for the purpose in the Goldfields hotel. The money was for "protection" in her illegal liquorâ€"selling business, she said. Mike Gasparich, boarder at Mrs. Kremer‘s for a couple of months, who remembered Chief Paul calling at the Kremer house one evening. Provincial Constable J. W. F. Préâ€" torius, of Timmins, who said that in conversation with Chief Paul oncé, the Chief had suggested that they go together in a scheme to get gold from nighgraders while raiding, then split the proceeds of the gold. He didn‘t think then the Chief meant it and had just considered it as a joke until asked to make a confidential report to Inâ€" spector Creasy on police conditions in Timmins in general and particularly on Chief Paul. This was after Robert Allen had talked to him, he said. Admits Jealousy of Chief Rene Lortie, former Timmins hockey player, now of Noranda, who said that the Chief asked him once 1'f he knew any foreigners at the mine who had any gold at home or if he (Lortie) knew any way he could get gold out of the Hollinger. He admitted he was jealous of the Chief. orce in in the was fol liquorâ€"s Charles Holley, former Timmins poâ€" liceman,. who said that Chief Paul had. shown him the bottle of metal taken from Splawnyck and had told him it was absolutely worthless. Paul had never suggested to him that they go together in any illicit dealings, he said. Afraid Mayor Would Have Her Fired Miss Lorraine McMilian, stenograâ€" pher at the town hall, who revealed that she had been made to believe by Robert Allen that Mayor J. P. Bartleâ€" man would arrange to have her lose her job if she didn‘t tell them "what she knew." She said that a statement prepared by Mr. Allen and signed by her after nearly four hours of quesâ€" tioning by Mr. Allen, was untrue. She had, she said, told Town Clerk H. E. Montgomery and Councillor Dr. E. A. F. Day the circumstances surrounding the signing of the statement and that At the beginning of Caldbick, attorney fo that he be allowed to intr dence that would not be re evidence in a criminal heari say" should be admitted, h: Judge Caron ruled thas n would be accepteéd that wo Judge Caron ruieéd tha no evid would be acceptéd that would no taken in a court of justice. "The : of evidence should be strictly adh to and no hearsay evidence will be ceptéd," he said. ‘There was some delay while a ] towards saving what little remained of historical interest in the ship. And donning diving gear, the Mounties brought powder flasks and cannon balls of 1780 vintage to the surface, cieaning out the wreck of the Bienfaisant, au new task for the force which "always gets its man." MONDAY ard THURSDAY at Timmins, Ont.,. Canada PE e Inqulry m. A he town, introduce eviâ€" e regarded as "Hearâ€" . he believed. , no evidence would not be ce. "The rules rictly adhered was procured from the town hall. Then William Boyd, former Hollinger soccer player, was sworn. On February 28th this year, he said, he had bsen apâ€" proached to "get something away." "What we call the precious goid in this country," he told the judge. ‘"The golda was in possession of whoever it was and I was in the same room. I said I will take it away and went to a cerâ€" tain place." Bill Boyd‘s story He met a man named Boulanger, then O‘Brien, the man who died soon after. O‘Brien "wanted the gold away," «und soulanger said he would buy it. "Then Hemming came into the picture and said they couldn‘t do business at his house because there were too many people there. Buyers and sellers were to gather at a "certain place" at a "certain time." Then O‘Brien ran into trouble with the police for driving without a license and tried to call the whole thing off., Boyd, in the meanâ€" time, had the glass sealer or jJar he had apparently got from somebody‘s room in the G.V. hotel. "Everything is aces Scotty," said O‘Brien when the two of them met at the Russell House at 9.30. Then the four men got into Hemming‘s car and started out for Schumacher. O‘Brien and Boulanger dropped off at the Grand Hotel for a moment, but reâ€" joined the party. Then, while they were travelling out toward the Hollinger at 50 or 60 miles an hour, they were stopped by Chief Paul and Deputy Chiecf Salley. "What is your present occupation?" asked Mr. Kester, representing Chief Paul. "Nothing." He had left the Hollinger five or six weeks ago and is not on relief in Toâ€" ronto, he said. "Who‘s keeping you now?" "Is that a question for him to ask?" Boyd appealed to the judge. ‘"Who‘s keeping you?" insisted Mr. Kester "I‘m married," said Boyd amid laughâ€" ter from the two hundredâ€"odd specâ€" tators who had gathered in the small hall. At this point Mr. Caldbick objected and asked that his witness be given the protection of the court. Judge Caron said he was not in a position to do that since it was not a criminal court. Then Boyd went over the story of the evening of Feébruary 28th in much the same style as he had previously. A man by the name of Richardson A man by the name had had the gold, Bovd Ke "How did he have the gold?" "It belonged to a fellow by the name of Rauthmell." "What were you to get out of it?" "That all depended on my luck." They had tried to sell the gold to Gz«orge Dalgarno once, Boyd said, but had been unadle to. "Do you think people is blind or dumb or what?" was Boyd‘s reply. Told Allen About It He lhad later reported the whole busiâ€" ness to Bob Allen. "It was Allen who was after me. He was investigating the police then," said Boyd. Referring to Boyd‘s evidenceâ€"inâ€"chief, Mr. Kester asked why the police could not see the gold if it was lying on the seat of the car between him and O‘Brien. "Were you in old out of the "No."" 18â€" Ht Stet No (vontinueda on Page Five, the business of taking Hollinger?" gradet ilid @isked MJ1 gold was said ceyrâ€"