Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1916-03-01
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note: WESTERN CLARION OWNED AND CONTBOLLEE BY THE S. F. OF C. IN THE INTBBESTS OF THE WOBKINCt CLASS The Official Organ of the SOCIALIST PARTY OF e- CANADA ■ : • : ' . VANCOUVER, B.C., MARCH, 1916 PER YEAR &I.OO On January 27th 1916, John Reid, Socialist Organizer for Alberta and the Socialist Party of Canada's candidate for the Red Deer Electoral District for the Federal House, was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment in the Lethbridge Penitentiary, on a charge of "sedition" by Justice Simmons. The Preliminary Hearing. In presenting the case at the Fall Assizes, before Justice McCarthy, the Public Prosecutor advanced a general charge of sedition which the COURT refused to accept, maintaining that the seditious statements should be specified, on the grounds that a man charged with -tfhef t should be told what the goods were that had been stolen. The Crown was ordered to amend the indictment and the Court was adjourned for four hours for this purgose. On re-assembling the Crown prosecutor stated he could not amend the indictment in the time allotted, as it would practically mean the setting out of the whole of the speeches. The case was set over to the next sitting of the January Assizes. At the trial recently ' l staged'' an alarming amount of corroborative evidence was forthcoming for the prosecution. The question arises:'" Since no copies of Reid's speeches were to hand last fall what was the evidence (?) upon which Reid was sent down, and from whence came it," The Evidence of the Prosecution's Witnesses. Several witnesses gave evidence for the Crown which bears apparently all the earmarks of careful schooling in lawyer's offices prior to the trial, since the phrases used by each witness about certain points are to all intents and purposes identical in form. That the chief witness, J. D. Skinner, "Justice of the Peace," and publisher was convicted the day following Reid's trial on a charge of criminal libel, the Judge advising that he resign his appointment as J. P.…
note: missing April 1916 edition
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374248
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. AN .W3
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