HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1921-3-3, Page 3SPRACKLINFOUND "NOT GUILTY"
OF MANSLAUGHTER BY SANDWICH JURY
Shooting of Beverley Trus ehie, Proprietor of the. Chappell
House, Sandwich, on .ltavember 6th Last, •
Was Done in $eilf-Defence.
A despatch front Sandwich says:—
After
ays:--After fifty-seven minutes deliberation
the jury returned a verdict pro-
pouncing Rev. J. O: L. Spracklin,
paster of Sandwich Methodist
Church awl former special li.q;ior
license inspector "not guilty" a'
the eharge of Inanslaughter iris -
iii; cut of the shooting of Beverley
T.rumble, proprietor of the Chappell -
Iitee e here during a raid on Novein--
ben 6th last. Thus came to a close
the trial wk,i,:h commenced before Sir
Villi„zn Muiock, at the Essex County
SFrang As:fee Court here, The judge's'
charge to the jury was concluded'
shortly after two o'clock. and they
left to commence their deliberations,
at 2.18. They returned to the court
room at exactly 3.15 o'clock and an.'
Pounced their ftr,,ling in two words:
ds:
*Not C ailty. No comment of any
kind was attached to the finding by'i
the jury nor nide by His Lordship,a
Prey"ious to the - announcement,
Chief Justice Muloelt issued en em-
phatic warning that any dernonstra=
tions on the part cf the spectators
would be treated as contempt of
court and the offenders promptly
p/acerl under arrest. As a Come-'
quence, the only evidence of the su
pressed €seiteznent prevalent were
the seareel'y audible sighs of relief
from Mr. Spraeklin's sympathizers.
1►i-, Spracklin at once stepped from
the prisoner's dock a free pian, stop-
ping
topping only to shake hands with his
lawyers, l:e left the courtroom des -1
Bending to the main floor of the
Courthouse, he voiced his relief in the
words "Thank God its an over;" In
the sheriff's office he 'vas surrounded
by relatives and friends who tendered'
their congratulations. Asked if hey
intended to resume his work as license!
inspector, he replied, "'I'ra not eeyin e.
as a matter of fact I hese uncle ab-
solutely no plane”
l Sixteen Doctors Have
Been Suspended
A. despatch from Winnipeg
says;, ---Sixteen Manitoba piiysi-
CianS have been suspen(dwd for
laeritds ranging from one week
to six months, as a result of the
i wholesale issuance of prescrip-
tions ;for whiskey as a beverage,
Council of the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons for Manitoba
announced on °faun^ dally.
One of the doetars suspended
gave 10,000 prescriptions during
a one -mouth period, according to
testimony obtained by a special
committee of enquiry appointed
by the council. Twelve of the
physicians practice in Winnipeg.
British Mandate in Palestine
Takes Effect
A despatch from Paris says: ---
The French and Italian military
forces still in Palestine were with-
draten. at the beginning of Marchin
accordance with the terms of the Bri-
tish mandate over Palestine.
Not a Sack of Floor Lo„t.
In his report presented to the 1Iouse
of Commons, James Stewart, of the
Canadian Wheat Board, stated that of
more than 7,000.000 bags of flour
handled not t bag was lost thn0ugh
deterioration or not being.,aecouateci
ft r..
A Letter From Loudon
The Prince of Wales has just been
appointed Colonel -in -Chief of the Sea -
forth Highlanders. This makes the
tenth regiment with his Royal High-
ness at its head. The cost of ten
difernt uniforms is no small matter.
these days, and the amount paid by
the I'rinc•a for kit alone must run well
into four figures,
* * * o
I noticed the other afternoon when
I saw Princess Mary at a charity
functionh t
t a be was not wearing a
single jewel. NVIzen taking tea she
took off her gloves, and not a ring
was visible. I am told she considers
jewels a little showy. She sometimes
wears them at home, and they suit
her admirably.
* * * *
Although the Prince of Wales has
his business advisers he always has
Ins own say, and is emphatic on the
point that no one is to be incon-
venienced in order that his posses-
eions may return larger incomes. But
his Royal Highness was never so in-
dignant
ndignant as when it was suggested that
Kennington Oval might be sold for
building purposes to yield an annual
rental between three and four thou-
sand a year instead of sevenhundred
pounds odd. "I will never consent to
the people's pleasure being interfered
with," he said.
The Prince, I ani told, has a very
sweet tooth. Only the other day I
saw. him come out of the Bath Club
and . pop a chocolate into- his mouth
as soon as he had told the chauffeur
where he wanted to go. He inherits
his love for sweetmeats from his
grandmother, Queen Alexandra, who.
always had boxes of mixedsweets in
every room sheamed at Santa inglia.m,
and still has ' special cream fondants
made for her in the Royal kitchen.
One member of the Royal Family
regards the ein.ema not only as a
power but also as a real recreation.
Queen Alexandra has private cinema
shows at 141ariborough house. Lists
and descriptions of all the trade
shows are supplied to her, and if she
takes a fancy to a film she bas a
private view of it at Marlborough
House for herself and her friends.
* * * *
Not many people remember how
the Duke
of Connaught was in the
asked to .aeeept the Throne
of Greece. Had it not been for the
opposition of the great Continental
Powers at that time he might have
been on the Throne of that troublous
country at present.
* * * o
It is not generally known, I think,
that the American Ambassador to the
Court of St. James's does not actually
live at the Embassy in Grosvenor
Gardens. He is forced to rent a prix
vete house somewhere in the vicinity,
and it is there that his social recep-
tions are held,
A story is told of Mr. Whitelaw
Reid, who was Ambassador about ten
years ago. A police officer late one
evening found a roan walking anxi-
ously up and down the pavement in
Grosvenor Gardens. The policeman
said sharply, "Move on, my man.
Haven't you got a home?"."No,"
came the simple reply, "I have no
home. I am the American Ambas-
sador.' -
During the war the number of non-
swimmers in the Navy, among both
officers and men, was • very noticeable..
I am glad to see that the naval
authorities have. been making inquir-
es, with the result that it has been
decided to reintroduce the'pre-war
swimming tests. To carry these out
1 SRN,/' THE
'FUNNIEST TH1144,- .
CA"i' Wt'rt-t styC
IICITTEN.5 ttel FRotST'
or wit rte Z's GRoCEI
P THINGS MOVING
Ily a mean musty swim eighty!
ards suitably clothed for the exec -
vise, and then anather forty yards
fully dressed.
n of Mandates
Puzzles the League
A despatch from Paris say:
A naval friend was telling me;-Aeeording to La Libol'te the
something I did not know before,' League of Nations has been
which is that ovary ship carries a inlaced in an embarrassing 'p si-
herseshoe for luck, This has been a j,ien (?Il the sub5ect of mandates,
fetish with the Navy ever since the! "The terrible embarrassment
to thehmast- o. theaictory.borsesh"e1 of the league is shown," says the
• BIG 11aes I paper, "by the fact that it must
_ . either reconsider the whoie pian -1
British House Increases ldate question or adhere to all,
Insurance Benefit spreevrinu;s
_ tdhece isniann.lateBsy Brreaon- l
A despatch from London says;--j'znd Japan will be ()ifend d and
In the House of Commons during the; by- adherence to the decisions the;
debate on the Unemployment funnel United States will be alienated
race Bill, the Government, in response, from the league."
to urgent repttsentation by the
Laborites, agreed to increase the insi It is announced in Halifux that the;
aurauee benefit from 18 to 20 shill -I legislature of Nova Scotia will meet
Ings for men and 16 shillings for woe" March 9th.
men. •: N Lake •
marine Insurance will go into
Herbert Hoover, of California, has efreet en April 15, which means that
accepted the post of Secretary oi'i is the date offieially set for the open-
Commexco in the Harding Cabinet. ing of navigation.
Weekly Market Report
Toronto. $7.50 per 15 -sec. ease; 5 and 21/4-1b.
Manitoba wheat—No. 1 Northern, tins, 23 to 25e per Ila.
$1.03%; No. 2 Northern. *1.90?s; No. Smoked meats --Hams, med., 3 i to
3 Northern, $1,86Ita; No. 4 wheat, 41c; heavy,` 87 to 39c; cooked, 63 to
$1 81% 55c; rolls, 32 to 38c; cottage rolls, 35
Manitoba ones—No. 2 CW, 50�c; to 86ee breakfast bacon, 44 to 47c;
No, 8 CW, 461ise• extra No. 1 feed, fancy breakfast bacon. 53 to 56e;
4f+i-ae; No. 1 feed, 44 c; No. 2 feed,backs, plain, bone in, 47 to 50e; bone -
4174e. 'lees, 51 to 55c,
Manitoba barley -No. 3 GW, 8514,c; Cured meats --Long clear bacon, 27
No. 4 CW, 70' e; rejeetet, wile; toL 8•c; c oarer belli bellies,
t7e'?i? s•
feed, 60?#,c. ,
All above "In store Fort William. filbn,s 11/4 o 23e; pails; 211a, to 2214.e;
Ontario •sheatFloe'. shipping : t , 2`',4 to 23c. Shortening,,
points, according' to freights outside. tierces, 14 to 141, e tubs, 141/4 to 15e;
No. 2 spring, $1.75 to $1,80; No. 2 pails, 14?i, to ifieee; prints, 15',i; to
winter, $1.85 to $1.40; No. 2 goose 16c.
wheat, $L70 to $1.80. Choice heavy steers, 70 to $10;
American corn—Prompt shipment, good heavy steers, $8.50 to $9; but -
Omen, cattle, $8.75 to $9.75; do,
No. 2 yellow, enrol., Toronto, 90c,
Ontario oats—No. 8 white 47 to good $7.50 to $8.50; do, med., $6 to
49c, according to freights outside. $7; zoo, coin., $4 to $6; Butchers' bulls,
Barley rdiiIaltzng, 80 to 85c, accord -`choice, $7 to $7.50; do, good, $6 to $7;
ing to freights outside. do, corn., $4 to $5,• butchers cows,
ehoice, $7,50 to $8; do, good, ' 6.25 to
Ontario flour—Winter, prompt ship-
$
ment, straight run bulk, seaboard, $7; do, coni,, $4. to $5; feeders, $7.75,
$8.50. to $8.75; do, 900 lbs., $7.25 to $8.25;
do, 800 .lbs., $5.75 to $6.75 do, corn.,
Peas No. 2, $1.50 to $L60 outside.
MILITARY POWER
' IS SUPREME
King's Bench at Dublin U
holds 'Military Pewe1' in
Ireland..
A despatch . from Dublin says;
The King's Bench, ,composed of th
Chief Justice and four other Judges
rendered an important decision ort
Thursday in a• case involving the pow
ers of the military, The Judges un-
animously decided that a state of war
existed and that the military had full
power to deal with the insurrection
withont interference by the civil
court;.
Dublin Castle aneounced that at
Bandon, where there is a strong gar -
risen of troops, a raid was con iueted
Thursday night by armed men, who
shot dead a Black and Tan constable
and wounded another and carried off
two naval wireless operators andtwo
soldiers. The wireless men were later
released, but the soldiers were found
shot dead, Mary Bowles, 13 -year-old
girl, who was captured in County
Curb carrying a machine gun and
was -armed with a revolver, was sen
tence4 by court-martial to detention
(tinet'c+s:;rs'n„story until she 1 19 yvar-
old.
In ti ss general order issued ,alluding
td the killing of two soldiers at Ban-
don and three at Woodford, Galway,
Tuesday, General Sir Nevil Mac
Creedy, the military eozn:mander in
Ireland, says there is no doubt that
these crimes constituted deliberate at-
tempts to ex spt'rate the troops and
tempt them to break the bonds of
discipline.
"The Commander -in -Chief,” says
the order, "expects the troops, even
in the face of provocation such as'
would not be indulged in by the wild-
est savages of central Africa, to
n .tin tsin the discipline for which the
army is justly proud."
Effect Q Research on the
Life of the Province.
FIFTEEN PER" CENT.
DROP -INENGLAND
p-
Living 'Cost is 250 Now, Based
on 1914 as 10O.
A despatch from London. says:—Ale
though the official figures have not yet
e -been published, it is known that the
Labor Ministry's .estimate of the live
ing ,cost will show a drop of 15 per
_ cent. in .January. The December
figures showed a drop of 4 per cent.,
from 269 to 265 per cent., with the
living cost in 1914 represented by 100.
The new figures probably will bring
the percentage down to 250.
The Food Ministry calculates that
food alone dropped from 14 to 16
points. While this accounts for 60
per cent, of the living cost, there have
i been big drops in the price of cloth -
ling. Another shilling has been taken
off the price of a sack of flour, and
E -it is promised that bread soon will be
cheaper.
The decline of prices in England is
somewhat behind the movement in
America, but the tendeney I certainly
a that way, and it is •expected that.re-
lief -will be felt hese soon. Any sug,*
gestion of cutting wages has been
Piet here the same es in America with
violent protests from labor, which
says that conditions are not yet equal
to this. There is a movement on here
for shortening hours.
Besides its human inhabitants, the
resources of any country consist,
fundamentally in its farms, its for-
ests, its mines, and its waters. To
show n little of what the University
of Toronto is doing for the Province
a selection has been made from the WM Try to Have Embargo Removed,
long list of problems now under in -Hon, Manning Doherty, :Minister of
vestigation and those problems select-: Agriculture in tl �� Otuarfo clovor t-
ed (lets than one-sixth of the tom- i meat, t:la;i to leaving shortly For Eng-
,
plete list) have been _classified ac -I land, where lie will endeavor to have
cording to the basic industries bane the nritieb Government remove the
flted. 1 embargo on Canadian cattle.
The Far �i'h i t
rte ea rus ; poisonous
eels• cliaractcr of S01 S,
oc-
currence
currence zof sand and gravel beds; { Niel Not Sell West Indies
purification of water supply; seedt•
germination. • (An this is entirely
agar tom ie wozk being done at espach from London says:—
the Ontario Agricultural College). The Foreign Office has announced
The forests --Needle blight in white. that the attitude of the British •Gott-
pine; reforestration; increased utile-' errincnt with regard to suggestions
bation el' timber; pulp and paper; r that {fire. t Britain turnover the y4'e t
timber diseases; canker an maple and, Indies to the United States in return
poplar; wood preservation; plant for cancellation of war debts has not
breeding and improvement. The Mine changed from that of a year ago, at
—Ore deposits; manufacture of brick; which time the Prima Minister, Mr.
smelting of iron; rust -proof coatings;
mineral deposits; ore separation;
paraffin oil. •The Waters—Rate of
growth of fish; the herring in Lake
Erie; mayflies; breeding of fish.
to Discharge Debt
Lloyd George, declared Great Britain
had not the slightest intention; of
bartering or selling any part of the
West Indies.
That statement was niade in corn -
Research benefits the basic resourc- mnenting on the resolution introduced
es of the Province; but specialized in- in the United States Senate by Sen-
dustry and the welfare of the people ator James A. Reed of Missouri con -
are not overlooked. Omitting, again, cerning posesible negotiations for such
the more technical problems now an exchange of the British West In -
under research and selecting only a dies for the wiping out of Britairx'a
few from the list, some additional ex -debt to the United States.
metes are given. Specialized Indus-
Manitoba hour --Track Toronto: $0 to $6; canners and cutters, $3 to try—Growth of yeast cells• heating of
First patents, $10.70;; second patents,
310.20.
Buckwheat—No. 2, 95e to 31.
Rye—No. 2, nominal; No. 3, 31.50
to 31.55.
Millfeed—Car lots, delivered. To-
ronto freights, bags included. Bran,
per ton, 340; shorts, per ton, 338;
white middlings, 341;•feed flour, 32.40.
Cheese—New, large, 30 to 31c;
twins, 31 to 32c;; triplets, 311/4 to
321/c; old, large, 32' to 35c; do, twins,
324 to 354c.
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to
50c; creamery, No. 1, 55 to 59e; fresh,
58 to 61c.
Margarine 29 to 83c.
Eggs—New laids, 47 to 48a; new
laid in cartons, 49 •
aa, to 51c.
Beans—Canadian hand-picked, bus.,
33.75 to $4; primes, $3 to 33.50; Ja-
pans, 8e; Limas, Madagascar, 104e;
California Limas, 124c.
Maple products—Syrup, per imp.
gal., 33.40 .to $3.50; per 5 imp. gals.,
33.25 to 33.40. Maple sugar, lb., 20
to 25c.
Honey -60 and 30-1b. tins, 22 to
24c per lise Ontario comb honey at
34.30; .milkers, good to choice, $85 to
$120; do, com. to med., 350 to 360;
choice springers, 390 to 3130; lambs,
yearlings, 39 to 39.50; _do, spring,
$11.50 to 312.50;; calves, good to
choice, 314.50 to 315.50; sheep, 37 to
$7.50; hogs, -fed and watered, $14.25
to- 314.50; do, weighed off cars, 314.50
to 314.75; do, f.o.b., $13.25 to $13.50;
do, country points, 313 to 313.25.
Montreal.
Oats—Can. West., No. 2, 69e; do,
No. 3, 65c. Flour, Man. spring wheat
patents, firsts, 310.70. Rolled oats,
bag, 90 lbs., 33.40. Bran, 338.25 to
$40.25. Shorts, 36.25. Hay, No. 2,
per. ton, car lots, $24 to $25
Cheese—Finest easterns, 28 to
'281/4c. Butter --Choicest creamery, 53
to 531/4e. Eggs—Fresh, 48c.
.� Butcher steers,- med.; $6.25 to $7t
corn., $5 to $6; butcher heifers, cosh., j
$5 to $6.25; butcher cows, med., $4 to 1
$6; canners, 32 to 32.50; cutters, 33
to 33.75; butcher bulls, good, 37; corn,
$'4 to $6; .good• veal, 311 to 314; med.,'
10 to 311; grass, 36; ewes, 35 to 37;
lambs, good, 312; hogs, . off car
weights, selects, 314 to 315.50.
liquids; rubber; concrete beans;
transformers; aeroplanes; electric
currents in are lights; sugar. Educa-
tion—Methods of teaching; assimila-
tionand education of immigrants; re-
tardation of pupils; elimination; in-
telligence tests. Medicine—Whooping
cough; rickets, diphtheria- influenza-
pneumonia; electric currents in thera-
peutics; blood supply and brain ac-
tivity; bone formation; kidney dis-
eases. Household Science—Misbrand-
ing of textefie fabrics in shops; adul-
teration of silk fabrics; malnutrition
in children; use and dietetic value of
so-called egg substitutes.
The era of aerial mail has begun
in Newfoundland. Letters addressed
to, St. Anthony, in northern New-
foundland, and the location of one of
the Grenfell hospitals, are conveyed
to their destination on one of the
planes .which is to be used later in
the season as a patrol ship for the
sealing fleet.
,
FRANCE READY TO
INVADE GERMANY
In Event of Berlin's Refusal
to Accept Allies' Terms.
A despatch from Paris says:—
Anticipatinng the German refusal of
the indemnity terms agreed upon by
the allies at Paris, it is reported that
the French general staff has prepared
complete plans for a general mobili-
zation and invasion of Germany, protb-
ably'•by way of Frankfort.
All leaves for the French army
-have been cancelled for several days.
1
So dietsguarding the public buildmn
3
have been replaced by Republic
guards. -
Conditions in Europe were given
more tension by the declaration frorn
Poland that a "state of war" exists,
there, martial law having been de
dared, on account of 'anticipated did l
orders at the forthcoming plebiscite
in Upper Silesia.
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