Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1914, Winnipeg, Manitoba / " vol. 41. Weather and mild. Sun Rhoss s 49 a a sett. 6 27 o Tiwu. 7 4d t a aet 6 58 an. Winnipeg thursday March 12, 1914. Twenty two pages. No. 214, Butl again milling t on witness stand All Day yesterday and not yet through merciless quizzing by a a Bonnar fails to break Down Demeanour lawyers rap each other Buxton s Story differs from former one in three Points. of Benedictine poverty before courts. Relatives make claim. Income from books by father Wirth subject for supreme court. The Assize court in Winnipeg was a whirlwind storm Centre throughout the morning and afternoon sessions yesterday. The excitement occurred As a result of placing on the witness stand John h. Buxton jr., the Star witness for the Crown in the Case of Hagel and Westlake charged jointly with complicity in the escape of Jack Kraf Cheriko. Buxton was on the stand during the entire Day being on his feet continuously with the exception of a Brief time for lunch for a period of five hour and a half. His Cross Examina Tion will be continued for several hours today. The entire morning session Wae taken up by Buxton in a dramatic recitation of his Story almost every detail of which coupled Percy Hagel with being one of the leading conspirators in planning the escape of Krawchenko. The morning session was the Calm before the storm for the moment that r. A. Bonnar k.c., commenced his Cross examination in the afternoon red Sparks began to Fly or. Bonnar was in a particularly Anta on ii tie mood and roared out his barbed and pointed questions at Buxton be ing cynical sarcastic and ironical in turn. Although Buxton withstood the gruelling fire or Bonnar managed to bring out three very important discrepancies in the evidence As Given yesterday and that Given by Buxton at the preliminary hearing and before the Royal commission on previous Occas ions. Buxton s Only explanation of this conflicting evidence was that he could not have fully understood the questions propounded to him on the two occasions on which he save sworn evidence before. Buxton was Cool and unbending throughout and proved himself a stubborn smooth witness. He took repeated gulps of water from a Glass that was kept constantly filled at his Elbow and never wavered for a moment throughout the unmerciful inquisition to which to was subjected. He refused to commit himself definitely As to times or dates and at certain periods throughout the afternoon or. Bonnar was plainly nonplussed and exasperated. Buxton from time to time insisted that he was trying to Tell the truth but on these occasions his protestations were Only met with Ridi Cule. The afternoon session was rendered All the More spectacular and thrilling by the continuous clash of steel against steel when those two Strong it Al knights r. A. Bonnar the defence and Edward Anderson k.c., for the Crown tilted lances. The atmosphere of the court room was continuously heated to put it mildly. Or. Bonnar told Anderson at one time that he would not be bulldozed and that Anderson had better get a Book out of the Library and learn what he anaemia or. Anderson in return told Bonnar not to be insulting and received the reply that he had then bet ter behave on another occasion or. Anderson shouted but that Bonnar was simply playing to the this said or. Bonnar was a ice thing for the Crown prosecutor to a saying and he instructed the court reporter to take it All and so Legal repartee and warfare continued throughout the afternoon. Or. Anderson objected frequently to the Wanner in which or. Bonnar address his questions to the witness and. Cd time was taken up by or. Jus Ucb Curran in deciding Legal disputes especially As to whether or. Bonnar Washington d.c., March 11.oral argument was heard in the supreme court today on the Validity under american Law of the vow a f poverty prescribed some twelve centuries ago for members of the Catholic brother Hood of St. Benedict. Briefs already had been submitted and the1 Case is now before the court for decision. The legality of the vow of poverty was questioned in the administration of the estate of father Augustin Wirth a priest of St. Benedict who died at Springfield minn., in 1901, leaving considerable Money and property. Relatives of the priest Laid claim to the estate but the brotherhood held Liat under his vow father Wirth could have nothing in his own right Azid any property that had been in his posses Sion belonged to the order. The1 rela Tives won in the United states circuit court of appeals which decided that the vow was against Public policy and void. J former judge Morgan j. O Brien of York on behalf of the order told he court today that if the opinion of the lower courts was allowed to stand As the Law of the land the property of the Benedictines and Alf other religious orders prescribing the vow of the order would be endangered. He said the lower court had failed to distinguish Between the religious and civil natures of the vows. A member of the order it was explained of Aid withdraw from the order in a civil aspect although his vow in a religions Way was Bindi in until death William d. Hayward counsel for the priest s relatives declared his opponents were taking a new position and one that made it unnecessary to de cide whether the vow was void. That being True he argued the court should dismiss the order by which i certified the Case up for review upon the representation that it did involve the Validity of the vow. Or. Hayward added that the Abbot of the order had gear item father Wirth permission to keep the income from books he iad written. Or. Of Arlen insisted however that the priest was permitted to keep the Money Only As a trustee for the order. Free implements Are voted Down Vrr government rejects Knowles Resolution by nearly forty majority. East and West unite Liberal from coast to coast Appeal to conservatives to do something for the Farmers Morden has rest in a Rudchenko trial grand jury expected to return True Bill this morning before court adjourns till monday. Read the full text of a subject a asking the witness with regard to Nat lie did or did not say at the time of his previous examinations. Differed on three Points As stated Buxton was shaken on free important Points. In his state ment yesterday he said that when he first met Constable Reid in the a Larendon hotel bar and talked to him continued on Pate two Stephens will risk chances in Montreal Montreal March 11.major g. " r. Stephens has decided now that he win run for mayor and take a Chance on his being disqualified under the residential stipulation. There in Little doubt that if his opponent. Mederic Martin one of the notorious "2s" aldermen of the old corrupt regime loses the Al prot. Stephens election will be contested in the courts. The knt clash speaking sex Harbor Board Cli airman has determined to run this risk. Special staff correspondence Marden Man., March is to have a few clays rest from the excitement preparatory to the formal arraignment of John Krai Cilien to charged by the Crown with the murder of h. M. Arnold. With the announce ment today that the Petit jurors were released until monday at 2 o clock the tension existing in the town was lessened. afternoon jurors inspected the court arouse jail Hospital land titles buildings end. The report of the grand jury As to these inspections will be presented tomorrow. It is considered a a certain that the grand jury will return a finding to Morrow and the fact that the grand jury did not go witness list is taken to mean that a True Bill will be returned. A striking feature comment around town today is to the effect that Kraf Chenko is being detained in Winnipeg and the Hagel Westlake trial rushed to a conclusion before Krawchenko s trial for his life begins an order that r. A. Bonnar the eminent criminal lawyer May coma to Morden to con the defence. A d. Suffield is a former Morden boy and has a reputation Here As a versatile and Clever Man and it is thought that if or. Bonnar should also become identified with the defence in. This Case which is bound to become a. Momentous one in the court annals of the country that the Legal Battle will prove of the hottest kind. ". The grand jurors be Over tomorrow if a. Finding is returned. At 10 o clock and the court will formally adjourn until monday at 2 o clock. W. H. Hastings conducting the Crown s Case against Krawchenko has left on the train for Winnipeg. Chief Justice Mather sit is Learned is Jinious to leave tomorrow and if a finding is returned he can adjourn the court in Tell monday March 16, at 10 a.m., a a the Petit jurors were re leased this morning until that hour. Jacob Handel chief turnkey at the Winnipeg jail has also gone Iback to the City. If the court is adjourned tomorrow at 10 a.m., Morden will be quiet until it resumes next monday unless Kra of Chenko is rushed Down unexpectedly before the regular train arrives monday. William Jedyck and several of the Plum Coulee witnesses went Down to Plum Coulee today. Dyck seemed to be at perfect Liberty. Bell Ralph Wagner Esau or. And mrs. W. Hum Boldt and a Root Are still Ere and will remain until the trial is Toronto fire two companies lose heavily and Many Throwr out of work. Toronto March 11.george a. Rudd Llcy in regard to Tariff matters until he budget is brought Down. He therefore advised his followers to Reat the. Motion As one of want of Confidence. Or. Borden expressed some doubt a to whether a reduction of duties would reduce the Cost of implements to the Farmers because it would give the trusts of the United states an Opportunity to invade the Canadian Market. He pointed out when the duty of plows was deduced Church less marriage f t editor s wife gets one Dollar damages in libel suit. Dispensed with clergy made marriage vow on platform on \ two year test basis. Edmonton.alta., March 11.an award of one Dollar granted by a jury in the supreme court today was the result of an action brought by Anne Ste Chisun wife of the editor of the lutheran newspaper no Wynn published at 61 Rowland Street. Edmonton against eight men the owners of the russian paper Russky Holos or the russian voice claiming,$2,500 dam Ages. The woman claimed injuries sustained through the publication of an article on August 28. 1013. Alleging that she tried to commit suicide by drinking carbolic acid As the result of quarrelling with her husband Over certain love affairs. � in giving evidence. Mrs. Stechishin stated that she and her husband were married in Winnipeg some years ago. The marriage was not the usual kind As she does not accept the teaching of the churches. It was not performed by a priest or minister of the gos Pel or authorized person. When she and her husband decided to set mar ried Uliey secured a marriage License and then went to the Deputy attorney Genera-1 of Manitoba and explained to him that they did not accent the teaching of the Church. He told them that if at a Public meeting they would announce that they accepted each other As Man and wife and then lived together for two years they would be legally Mari and wife. This they did. At a Public meeting in the socialist Hall in Winnipeg they went upon the platform m and publicly accepted each other As Man and wife declaring their Mutual love. The trial marriage was in every respect satisfactory arid they have lived together for More than the required two years. When this evidence was Given toy the plaintiff. Or. Justice Beck who is hearing the Case remarked that in Manitoba they seemed to have More advanced legislation than in Alberta. Shooting tragedy in logging Camp wounded Man Likely to die As result of quarrel Over theft assailant surrenders himself. Edmonton aua., March 11.-Frank Walters a Farmer near Coronation is novel suggestions by Arthur Hames special Board to preside Over elections judge clergy Man Lay Man and woman distrust of parliament witness before special committee of the House on electoral corruption. Ottawa maa of 11.a number of Radical suggestions for reforms in the election Laws of the country were made at the initial business meeting today of the special committee of the House which has in View amendments to the. Jaw. The More novel Sugges Tion was made by Arthur Hawkes who complained of the Unwor ability of the present system and urged that elections in each county be directed by a Board consisting. Of a judge a rep set Stative of e act candidate a i clergy Man and a woman. Arthur Hawkes said the discussion in the House on the question of elec toral purity was lie thought begun from the wrong end. It. Was a Law yer s discussion More than anything else and he considered that the main question under consideration should have been the effect of the present Law defect of present Law rather than the making of new Law s. There is in the country a greater distrust of parliament or. Hawkes added than perhaps of any other institution in the country and that distrust rises out of electoral corruption. Whatever the government of the Day it seems to have an interest in keeping a Blind Eye to the election or. Hawkes cited the Case of a writ not being issued for a vacant constituency until after Long delays As an instance where distrust of Parlia ment was aroused. On the floor of parliament he said it had been declared the election Law was virtually inoperative and this inoperative nes a did much to discredit Canada More effective control. Or. Hawkes suggested More effective control of elections for instance suitable Public buildings might be placed at the disposal of candidates during election time. During session or. Hawkes went on a member of parliament can Send out tons and1 tons world s news summary thursday March 12. The weather forecast for to Day is As follows fair and mild. Resolution introduced in Ottawa House by w. E. Knowles Moose jaw asking for free agricultural implements is rejected by Borden govern ment by majority of 38. Page 1. Sir e. Carson s speech on Ulster highly praised while Bonar Law s attitude has equally Strong condemnation being in statesmanlike. Page 5. Mackenzie and Mann Jove not yet put up Security to cover desired Bond guarantee off. $35,040,000 from Federal government. Page 1. Senator Lougheed government Leader in the upper chamber at Ottawa pays glowing tribute to Lato sir George Ross. Page 15. Prominent liberals declare initiative and referendum should be mandatory and not optional with government. Page 22. Arthur Hawkes Sug Gestl a special lying at the Point of death at Cor of literature through the mails free Nna tinn with a Bullet Hole in his left own ply by putting on it Hie Frank. Donation Ith a Bullet Hole in Bis left Temple and the Juilet is still inside his Skull while Erie person also a farm ers of the same District is in the Cus Tody of the mounted police As the re sult of a ii Arrel which occurred in the Bush where the men were cutting logs on March 4,v and ended it is alleged by person drawing a revolver and firing three shots at Walters 7-�teth3srtnd5strt Toh the of the affair As told in the Den twisted tto liberals with having report of the mounted police received done much in the direction of reduce at the Edmonton off ice today is beef Tho duties when they were m i l y As follows. On the afternoon of Tilva Ulata pc j to a str -,.,. No n o t. To i o nor Power. Hon. Arthur March 4, Walters and a Man named n a t would suggest that both candidates Soto us have the a Light during the Campaign to Send out literature from a. members of Parlia ment Only have the franking Privi lege during the session. They do not have it during the election period. Or. Hawkes that is so. But Why limit the interest of the state in the and will engage the attention of the government. The Saskatchewan held at Begina. Security for Bond guarantee is no yet fixed details of proposed Guaran tee of $35,000,000 Are causing trouble. Government wants . To pledge seventy million Dol Lars of common stocks Board of judge Clergyman Layman and w on the Resolution for free wheat the debate was participated in toy several members on the government Side. Today s Resolution on the other hand was dismissed so far As the government waa concerned by a ten minutes speech by Premier Bor Den. Which closure every member of that Side of the House who May have desired to speak. The prime min deter evinced a decidedly hostile attic tude toward tue Resolution took Refuge behind the old claim that in the pres ent circumstances the Resolution constituted a motion of Lack of Confidence in the government and declared that the time for Auch discussion was when the budget speech was brought Down. The attitude of the prime minister today was in marked contrast to that assumed by him yesterday when an other phase of the Tariff was being discussed. Yesterday j. J. Carrick member for Thunder Bay. Urged upon the Jove Fri ment the necessity of pro Viding a Bounty for the encourage ment of the Iron and steel industries which a admitted was already indebted to the Dominion to the extent or $17,00,000 along that line of Aid. Carrick Well supported. X or. Carrick was not told that he was out of order and that the proper time to precipitate a discussion of that kind was when the budget speech was brought Down. Many members on his arts of the country where the doctrine of an adequate Protection to the industries of Canada might seem to be regarded with no great favor by the people. International Trust. The prime minister raised a new spectre in his. Opposition to the de mands. He declared that with tree Trade i agricultural implements there would Arisa an International Trust with which Canadian legislation could not Deal and which would raise the prices to the level and above the level at present in Force. The ease for the abolition of the duties was presented forcibly by the mover of the Resolution w. E. Knowles Moose jaw by lev Thom son Quapp Elleby Hugh Guthrie member for the Ontario constituency of South Wellington by or. Neeley Humbold by Thomas Mcnutt Salt coat by w. A. Buchanan Medicine hat by j. J. Hughes of Prince Edward Island by or. Beland Beau Ceby or. Clark red Deer in Short by members of Rural constituencies from every province from the Atlantic to the Rocky mountains. They urged that the agricultural implement Indus try was no longer in the infant class that it Lead acquired under Long Protection a reasonable hold on the Home Market and that it was now compete nor with All countries on the markets of the world. In fact it was they said not Only competing with All other countries but was Selim nor at a lower Price on the foreign Market than on the Jimonie Market. The Only reason for maintaining the duties they claimed must be in order that the Cana Dian manufacturers should be Able to charge More to the Canadian consumer than to the foreign buyer. At Midnight the House sat up and listened when Hon. Arthur Meighen solicitor general stood up on the government Side. Or. Meighen As Mem Ber for Portage la Prairie is remembered As having in 1311 proposed a Resolution in similar circumstances for the reduction of the duties on agricultural implements. The solicitor Gen eral was not so Frank or Independent in Bis views As had been the private member for Portage la Prairie. He declared that there were individual differences of of Ninon on the various questions of the Day on his Side of the House but on its Star of Protection which guided the party there was a ". Ii. Nival no. To Solute unanimity 1911." he declared opinion. In introduced a Resolution but on no false grounds. I Felt that if it interfered with the principle of Protection or. Injured any particular Industry i was not in sup port at it.". Back to farm for jobless. Albany. March 11.new York s scheme of getting the unemployed in the big cities of the state Back to the soil was explained today by commissioner of agriculture Hudson who is working with governor Glynn on a plan for transporting jobless men Back to the farms. Work on farms is expected to be furnished to More than ,000. Settlers for Alberta. Weyburn sask., March 11. A special train that passed through Here on monday attracted considerable at Tention. The train was made up of Twenty Box cars and two passenger coaches with about eighty people. They represented fifteen families who pushed out of Colorado and were in route to Alberta. Assets in extraneous companies May also have to be put up by promoters. To Provence Havre new Ort Axon la Gibraltar new York Belna it italia _ Naples new York Franco lit Nanle now York Bohton Halifax culpa Paterson the Choice Beautiful Plains liberate pages Candia data in Field. Neepawa Man., March 11.oppon ends of the Roblin government in t a constituency of Beautiful Plains Hill a mass convention in the court this afternoon the re being 150 Hector present pendent both Tho Liberal and in meeting and a lot. Peterson of a then the Defeated reciprocity candidate in Portage la Prairie constituency a 1911, received a decisive majority on the first ballot. His Choice waa Myrlo unanimous and organization cur Tho Campaign effected. The candidate pronounced him balt without equivocation on the temper Ance question compulsory education a provincial University and direct the isolation but Laid emphasis on the necessity of Independence of thought and action by members of the legis lature. Bra Rene St. John . Wet indie weather . The we Anjier report from tie met Coro Ibel Cal Observatory at St. Johr u Colletto is As follows temperature at 7 30.3 maximum Lor the preceding 12 Lio Urc. 32.s minimum. 7.3 barometer 3o.11 South West wind at 15 Miles an Canadian meteorological a Rico weather observations taken at 7 o clock laut even Lar. March 11. Winn Lincir time were port Arthur. 30 fair Winnipeg 30 , 30 air Quappelle. S4 fair Swift current 40 fair Prince allow re 38 Cloudy Battleford. 3s Clear Medicine hat,58 fair Calgary. 54 fair Edmonton 42 the weather has turned Milder today in Manitoba and in Alberta temperatures of60 decrees and Ever have been and maximum temperatures Victoria. 40-54 Vancouver. 34-56 calftary.24-62 Edmonton. 18-48 baulk tool 25-40 Prince Albert. 2o-44 Medicine hat. 40-60 Moho jaw. 10-40 re Tina. 1-35 winnlpak.4-32 port Arthur. 2-34 Parry sound. 2-18 London. 32-26 Toronto 9-21 Kin to n. 8-28 Ottawa. 12-20 Montreal 14-20 Quebec. 12-22 Halifax 20-54. Fair. Sir James Whitney is greatly improved. Toronto March 11. Sir Lames Whitney received Newhon in Prooro Enta Tives at his Homo today. Lie stated he did not intone to any Sui nor of the Esris Lauri this serb Ion but no dosed to take a Ion vacation. He had not worked out his plans for Trio next 8 or 10 months but to Rivair. In Toronto 1 1 Mav or Jure. He repeated i a nor Sion of sati Tud o th--1 jo"1 fur u i r i r Kim Pathy do r ing l i i film is. Whit nov Fine Avert to to stood Hea l the. T l it Ike weak a l 1 remier n fairly ;