"WINNING POST" IN COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 7

"WINNING POST" IN COURT

ROBERT SIRVIER- PROSECUTED, f By T#lesrojili~l J ross A-suocla lion—Cowrishf London,. November 26. Robert Sievior was summoned at llm ' Bow Street Police- Court on. a charge, of obtaining £1000 from Thomas fiev by pi'«misiiii.r not.to publish im article,.in the "Winning Pest" against Dey''in 1907; also with perjury i" the-libel action heard in October lastThe caso was adjourned.

Tn the recent libel Nobcrt. Reiver v. Percv Mono.' a solicitor, and Thmiiai l)ev, a bookmaker, for circulating n typewritten sheet nllcirini: thai. Sievcv bad blackmailed Dcy for JJIOOfI in crmnoc'.inn with an ntlvurtisement published in Sicvier's pap?!', iho "Winniiitf Post," a bank clerk pave evidence tiia! Bey cashed .1 cheque for X'&, vciviviiiß f-ov-ercirtits. This theiiuo unci one for .CUOO wcro made out to the "Wiliniiiff Past,' 'a-Ml. Wera censecntlvely numbered. Sicvier, in hi* 'csmuinatioii'.. denied the statement flint Dcy p<ivc him ,-U"T*»O which he (Dcy) hsd specially fetched from lis back in j;o!d. and headed over in the presence of 1-i'd-ward Sicviev, a cousin of liobert, who died lu January Inst. In the witness-. box Up.v reoeateil his story, addinft that ail or Sievier hint received the JI7OO lw published n complimentary editorial in Ihe "Winning Poet" instead of one of a ■disgust-he; nature Uoy.'s pa*t life. During Dey's cross-exomiiiAtion a specimen ba-u containing 700 sovereigns was exhibited. It weighed Jijlb. ' ' ' "

Charles \V. JWlwforr, a professional rriiniiial. <ltmii<; his imprisonment in the (Jliii) Penitentiary, berauio. prolkieiit in Use knowledge of electricity. He imvtitted wi electrioal Btwot-swrcnini! innrhinn and several oilier useful appliances, Iu 30 plows in lCuropo <>mH« acid it made from sawdust, ami in i*roilainl s;radust is listd to make itcorclotlt, wrajmitrr paper, and millboard, a coarse kind cf pastelioard used Ijv b<<c!;biiide:ys and others. WliaS is reported lo lie tjj-o largest seal over caiijflit on tho Cape Breton coast I.Vovn Si'ulia) lias just been taken at >labon Mines hv u fathw and son. It welshed (-.(Mill. Xlii> skin measured Tit. (Din. in length by Ift. -tin. in width. A dnli e.xisls in Vwmui tho Weinberg nf which are pledged to mnrry pear girls. If for any reason a member Marries a rich ;rii'i. he is tilled -CUM, which is lis>= slimed on ttmia rospt'elpbls Is tit iiii jict'tuii-f ous co.ucle about to be jaatrJfioU,