TREASON CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2902, 14 October 1916, Page 10

TREASON CHARGES

SENSATIONAL 'DISCLOSURES Vv .

CHEMIST'S EVIDENCE

jßyTejeiraDh-Preßs Association-CopyriKht ; • .Sydney, October 13. 11l the treason case tho chemist gave - •further evidence Ss to obtaining conaderable quantities' of chemicals for same": of the accused. After some of -...-the fires he asked Fagin if he was going to use the chemicals he (witness) had sold- for more fires. Fagin said 1 ' "yes." Witness asked, where he came in, and demanded the return of the :" cheuiicals. ; Fagin. refused- to return ... and added that further considerable: quantities* of had 'been purchased:'. Witness a'photograph of a notorious 'German escapee .from an internment camp as the man . ; living, at' Fagin's. lodgings. . , Witness -.-.was asTied to make a mixture to remove . ".V'tatoo marks. ■ When-he. found it was to be used to remove marks from the German escapee he declined to apply ." it;-' Fagin-then told witness he-know ' '- too much, and would-have to ,£0 it, otherwise he would'he "fixed." A re- • j.r volver'was produced, and under threats witness removed, the niarks. The Ger- • man 'afterwards disappeared.. Witness ••/'stated that ho gav.e information regarding thte actions of chemicals be"cause he was frightened. He did not "•"' approve of accused's policy. . THE THREE DISCS. £ll; ' ARRANGING FOR FIRES. (Rec. October 13, 10.35 p.m.) ■ v ; Sydney, October 13. — In the treason case a witness, who acting under police instruction became a. member of the LW.W., gave evidence that Mahoney, whom witness believed '' to be an Austrian, put three discs in a cigar box- and told the three men present that the one drawing the red "disc would have to start a fire. _ Witness -, drew the red disc. JUahoney indicated Way's, in Pitt Street,, as the glace selected for a fire. Witness received a parcel containing a bottle and cotton waste, which he-, handed to tho police.'