DOUBTFUL ARREST

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1932, Page 4

DOUBTFUL ARREST

ASSASSINATION INTENDED. WAS MR THOMAS IN DANGER P (United Press Association-~By Electric XeieyraphT-rCopyriglit.).... , i, > , i TORONTO, August 7. . Newspapers give touch'- prominence to the arrest here of an, iiiuhmaa, named Dan Malone, aged 30, who was remanded in custody on : a charge of vagrancy. The ponce say that Malone attended the recent \Vqrkera’, Economic Conference at Ottawa, and that he intended to atsasrinate .Mr J. Thomas, when visiting Hamilton to-day. - Malone’s young wife . cronies that lie is a revo.utionary, and states that lie never possessed q revolver. .7'; > Mr Thomas is cheerful pnd unperturbed. He was only annoyed because of the sensational . press' headlineswhich compelled him to telephone his. wife at: Ottawa, giving iher an assurance of his safety. • ' Further investigations made by the police suggests that there has , been.; little basis to Kan that Dan Malonointended to kill' Mi* Thomas. •• The; ar--'/ret was ‘made merely tas -a; .precautionary act, seeing that Malone was. a leader of the unemployed-, and am ardent supporter of de Valera. He ■ iss a voluble speaker. If he made any r threats, they wer 6 not meant seriously. In any case, Mr Thomas had not stopped at Hamilton, but he went dlree* .to Welland on Saturday, with /the i.’econd official party, whereas the party inspected Hamilton's extensiveengineering works. : : '• OTTAWA, August 7. The unemployed declare that the .police attempted to ."‘‘frame’’ Dan Malone by placing a revolver / on/..the running 'board of the motor in wihidh Pie wad travelling ta Ottawa last week / The police deny this. There is no evidence that' Dan Malone has ever preached 'violence,, or has ever .carried firearms,.. Mr Thomas disra»sced the matter with a laugh.