ESPIONAGE CHARGES AGAINST CANADIAN OFFICER

Chronicle (Levin), 30 March 1946, Page 5

ESPIONAGE CHARGES AGAINST CANADIAN OFFICER

^ . 9+' ACCUSED MAKES COMEEAINT AGAINST POLICE Received Friday, 10.20 p.m. OTTAWA, March 29. The preliminary hearing of tiiespionage and conspiracy charge : against Captain Gordon Lunan, aged 3^ ! a Canadian Information Service office/ | was held in the Magistrate's Court yes terday. The Crown prosecutor said he woui not proceed immediately with the con spiracy charge because of new fact. j orought out in the Rose case. Lunan told the Court that he ha^ | been refused counsel while appearinc | before the Royal Commission and. whn - being examined by the police, withou ! being warned that such evidence woiu, | be used against him. I Evidence was given that Lunan dii. | not object to giving evidence when h j appeared before the Royal Commission j Lunan asserted that he was ' ' strong : ly induced" to acknowledge certai. things produced in the record by * ; ' 'methodical form of psychological tor j ture" by the police. | The Magistrate ruled that Lunan k ! evidence given before the Royal Com i mission was admissible. The Magistra^ i said that, as far as he could determine ! there had been no intimidation c. ! Lunan by tlie police since his deteutio.. I on Februafy 15. | The prosecutor told the Magistrate ! that there were live pages of the 20( i pages of the Royal Commission evidence j that the Crown did not wisli publishe^. The Magistrate directed that none (n ! the Commission evidence should be pub | lished, as it would not be fair to give 1 wide publicity before Luna/n went oe | fore a higher Court. . / I ' The Crown prosecutor offered no 1'ur j ther evidence and the hearing was aa j journed until April 2. j At Montreal* Fred Rose, M.P., ha,. ; been committed for trial on charges o_ conspiring to give secret information tc Russia, and his bail was cancelled. The defence counsel, Mr. Josepn Cohen, K.C., did not ofi'er evidence whei. Rose appeared in Court for, a voluntar,-, statement. Mr. Cohen said, "We reserve our defence for the trial."