LEGISLATURE ACT PROSECUTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 286, 1 December 1914, Page 8

LEGISLATURE ACT PROSECUTIONS.

[To The Editor Stratford Post.] Sir, —1 think that in fairness to the witness, John Phillips, a correction should he made of your supplementary report in Saturday’s issue. It reads, inter alia, as follows: “In the case of Phillips, said Mr Stanford, defendant never saw that man sign. The claim for enrolment was taken away, and Phillips signed it in the presence of Brannigan. The form was accidentally signed in a batch of ten or eleven. This was witnessed at the same time, said Mr Stanford, quite wrongly torn! innocently. “Mr Thomson : Mr Phillips says he does not know ho made the signature.”

This, sir. appears to me to somewhat question either the mental capacity or the sobriety of Mr Phillips. What I stated to the Court was: That Phillips denies absolutely he made the signature purporting to lie his, and that he does not know who made it. That he had already signed a claim for enrolment, before the Registrar, by making his mark, he being unable to write. That later a second claim was handed in, signed “John Phillips” in a very clear handwriting and witnessed by Defendant A. A. Cuthbertson. That this claim, Mr Phillips states, he had never seen.—l am, etc., • PERCY THOMSON. Stratford. 30-11-11.