I.W.W. COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1918, Page 5

I.W.W. COMMISSION.

SENSATIONAL ETOENOB/'i-.' ' ''l ■- " "'. M Sydney, A-ugosfc.*23» i ' .4 A sensational feature of Steiibys fifes ',s ther evidence was his statement thafcllftiWj had difficulty in inducing Goldstein, fflwv.jj of the witnesses in the OVjW. case, to.'"p give Judd his statement, Goldstein feat- ,7 ing that when thf police (knew a signed '■£ statement was against them he might 1)b ;=l| done away with. " "^

Scully explained his references to-M'AJ-' lister's mysterious death. He said:-that; in his opinion, M'AUister did not die>ia natural death; one side or the other gpt him. ,;

Scully saw M'AUister perfectly well a day before he died. He had an appointment with him at his ('Seully'fl) solicitors next day, Which M'AUister did not keeu. Instead, Scully heard that M'Allister had been found unconsaiotis in a hack yard, and next day learned thl&t, M'Allister had died of pneumonia. Goldstein, examined, admittted making an untrue statement impugning the police, in order to irajx-ril 'Jhe Government and get even witfc the police for having ruined him.

Goldstein said that, up to Saturday last, he was prepared tw give false eyl-., dence, but "ho had seen tlw uolice andnoW would tell the truth, lie added: "T6e police are innocent, hut there was tju agreement to manufacture a ease aganiit them."—Aus-2s T .Z. Cable Assoc. < Received Aug. 23, 5.5 p.m. . Sydney, Aug.- 23..'

Throughout to-day's evidence at tlie T.W.W. Commission, Goldstein maintained the falsity of the accusations against the police.—Aus. N.Z, Cable Assoc.