I.W.W. INQUIRY IN SYDNEY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 288, 24 August 1918, Page 7

I.W.W. INQUIRY IN SYDNEY

SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE

Sydney, August 23. A sensational feature in Scully's further evidence was his statement that he had-difficulty.in inducing Goldstein, one of the witnesses in the I.W.W. case, to give Judd a statement, Goldstein fearing that when the police knew he had signed the statement against them that; ha mijjht be done away with. Scully, in explaining his references to M'Alister'a mysterious death, said he was of opinion that M'Alister did not die a natural death. , One side or the other got him. Scully saw M'Alister, who waa perfectly well the day before he died. He had an. appointment with him at Scully's solicitors for the next day, which M'Alister did not keep. Instead, Scully heard that M'Alister had been found unconscious in a backyard. The nest day he 'earned that M'Alister had died of pneumonia. Goldstein, examined, admitted making an untrue statement impugning the police in order "to imperil the Government and get oven with the police for having ruined him. Up to Saturday last he was prepared to give falso evidence, but he had seen the police, and now would tell the truth. Ho added that he knew the police were innocent, but agreed to manufacture a case against them.—Press Assn. (Rec. August 23, 11.10 p.m.) Sydney, August 23. Throughout, to-day's evidence, before the I.W.W. Commission, Goldstein maintained the falsity of his accusations I against the poliec.—Press Assn.