SIEVIER AND JOEL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 264, 31 July 1908, Page 7

SIEVIER AND JOEL.

PLAINTIFF CROSS=EXAMINED. HOW HE SET A TRAP FOR ACCUSED. AN UNSUSPECTING TOOL.' (D? TEIEQBAI'H—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYMGHT.) London, July 29. In tlio trial, before the Lord Chief Justico (Lord Alvorstono), of 11. S. Sievier for tho alleged; using of threats to publish defamatory matter regarding J. B. Joel, with a view to extorting money, the evidence for the prosecution, has concluded. - Army Meat Scandai. Mr. Rufus Isaacs, K.C., searchingly crossexamined Joel, especially regarding an allegation that in 1902 Joel offered £10,000 to Mr. Markham, Liberal M.P. for Mansfield Division of Notts, to suppress a question in the' House of Commons relating ■to Joel's connection with the Imperial Cold Storage .Company and the Army meat contract. ' Mills, a "betting commissioner," testified that 1 he consideredthat Joel. played him a (Jirty trick in getting him to play a part In; setting' a trap for Sievier. "Dirty" Business.. Joel,' in ..cross-examination, declared that Mr. Markbam's allegation was an invention. Ho' admitted that it was a dirty piece of business on' his part to put Mills—an innocent man—into affair, but pleaded that Sievier had provoked him to discover a means of commencing a prosecution. The accused, Robert S.. Sievier, testified that when Mills said he would be able to get him a bit of money if Joel's name was excluded from the " Winning Post," be distinctly refused to /accept Joel's monoy on such terms. .. •' Accused denied that ho had ever, sent •Mills to Joel ; " the boot waa on tho other leg.'.' Sievier : said he had promised to keep Joel's namo out of the paper as a favour to Mills. ' ' ■ ' CONSPIRACY—PERJURY. (Rec. July 30, 11.45 p:m.) • London, July 30. ■ Sievier described the witnesses Bendon and Mills as perjurers, and declared that Joel and Mills* had conspired to manufacture evidence.against him'.