I.W.W. TRIALS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 252, 12 July 1918, Page 5

I.W.W. TRIALS

SENSATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES i ASSEMBLY ; | POLICE ALLEGED TO HAVE I FAKED EVIDENCE ! (Roc. July 12. 1.55 a.m.) i Sydney, July 11. Recent endeavours by certain mem- ! bers of tlio Assembly to obtain a now ! trial for the I.W.W. prisoners and the rejection of a motion to appoint. :i ! Royal Commission have culminated in i sensational allegations, Mr. Brookfield '■ stated that new evidenco had como to i liglit based on a writton statement l>v Scully, a Crown witness, in which ii<> ; alleged that the Governmont had pro- ; raised him .£2OOO to securp. evidence to ' convict the I.W.W. men. Two constables asked Scully to plaeo cotton wa6t& in the pockets of one of the I.W.W. members. ' Tlio police prepared the evidence, which ! was handed to Scully, and which he was i told to learn. The Government actually N < puid Scully .£3OO. Mr. Brooklield fin- | tlier alleged that the case was a frame- 1 Up on the part of the police. One ma- ; terial witness died under mysterious oir- ! cumstnnces, which, were never cleared up. If Scully left, there was no other wit- j ness lo prove the caso against the police. i A sensational uproar ensued when it \ transpired that Scully, left the country last month.—Press Assn. ... " :1 ■ !