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eme Cameron°het
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Jttce p envier, lwdin tare
IIIc Rminitan contest; .when
44 (04, the, reciprocity
edti, In. Mas ey'wall with
�bnral opponents.,: He ad -
ie, es”ed thefeanadianriClubthe of
t1ew York with Sir George
' Foster and:.. Ikon. .
Pe . y:R
odolth
mos, Lemieux - surely testimony to
votes:.'1911laM. his re ulotion foregoquence:
udfoot beca!ng member' , In 1909 he was Crown
'Centre. Huron in , 1908.,counsel at .the Kfnrade
rich citizens .re elected inquest in Hamiltort, an affair
eronasmayor in:1910.19". which had almost every
Blaek,stock's aspect of a murder trial.
eorge T. except
cation as cqu sol inthat there was no
foal cases persis to„this accused person. Nearing its
but seems basedla; explosive conclusion, as this
n the BirchaIl case. It is writer recalls. Blackstock's
by former associates examination of Florence
he did not seek briefs of I<inrade. sister of the dead
kind, and in his firm they girl, lasted three hours,
e mainly assigned to " Do you tell me, in this'
lace :Nesbitt: who was solemn moment and in these
to be able to talk: to juries
theirown language."
Murder case- of wide
rest in the Goderich area.
ght Blackstock again
the part of Crown
ecutor in 1911, • when
and Jardine was tried
ore Chief Justice
Tonbridge for the sex
ng of Lizzie Anderson.
ckstock was assisted by
on Crown Attorney
ries A. Seager. and
ace counsel was Loftus
in Dancey. also of
erich. Jardine was
yicted and later hanged in
erich jail Short bits of the
gman's rope were
rished by some Goderich
dents as souvenirs of an
dangly sordid affair.
Iackstock became noted
an after:dinner speaker
as a spellbinder on
ical platforms. He
paigned in the 1905
olm Graeme Cameron,
n here In an early photo,
several times mayor of
erich and represented
t Huron in the
stature. Hewas an' ar-
student of Robert Burns,
toured the United States
g lectures on the Scottish
In 1921 -he was appointed
rty .fudge for Durham-
humberland.
solemn circumstances," he
pressed; "that you know
nothing about who killed your
''sister I ,thcl?"
"1 do not know that man."
the witness replied.
"aro you know anything
more about it than what you
have told me?"
"No, nothing more."
"Then that man did it or
else the only persons in the
house +ere you and your
sister f• thel and if no man
.'u'. Ilrere th'ert you two girls
w he left That will
dei Nliss inrade
t this paint t. :.tit a m t the
itness collapsed and was
,issIsted from the room. She
t.r'ied. hysterically: "The
gran the pian! he'll shoot
nit •
That tragedy was .never
feared up '
J ung before. these events.
Itlackstack sought a seat in
the I egis1aturc. and if xuc
ccStil'cr1 Wright have found
himself opposite. his former
.c11001matc. Cameron
1'rohahly he tried too stun In
,M i at . he was i. ihc'r:i1
candidate in Lennox and
unsuccessful Three years
later he opposed Hon
Kdward Blake. Liberal
leader in the Commons. for
the West Durham seat, losing
by only 11t
In the 1891 general election
john .1 Nlacf)onald's last
contest l lackstock was
again candidate ; in West
I turhamr losing 'to Robert
Ita'ith.! noted livestock man of
('obourg. by 198. It was' three
times and out for Blackstock,
still only 34 years of age,
while Graeme Cameron, upon
entering his first political
campaign in 1902. was 45. He
had married Flora McLean,
and .when Mr. Cameron was
':appointed county judge of
Northumberland -Durham in
iliac) they ' went to live at
('ohourg.
Blackstock married. in
IsSO. Emetine Moulton
1'raser. who divorced him in
1896. He died in 1921, aged 64..
.fudge Cameron died in 1925.
Area topu
Goderich
en your
150th Birthday
Harry Adonis Crane Service
kWh Rd. Ph: 5244451
aged Gia. , Mrs. Cameron
;Owned to Goderich, .and
resided for some years on
Gloucester Terrace. They
had one daughter, Mrs. John .
Robertson, now wl lowed and R -re '�''Both ate e
residing in Metro TOretito2 . i tri tress, # ve lrs of
The lives of these two men "leant"ed to tl'te law«'i!
afford interesting parallels speakers and. indtvd
and equally .interesting great,in.tellectual xil l
JS
Quavery best wishes to
Goderich
and our thanks to t "
'Tiger Dunlop
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