CANADIAN COMMUNISM
TRIAL OF REV. A. E. SMITH TIM BUCK NOT TO TESTIFY, (Received March 7, 2 p.m.) TORONTO, March V. Tim Buck, the Communist leader, who is serving a. sentence of seven years for unlawful: conspiracy, was not permitted to testify at the trial of the Rev.' A.. E. Smith, a noted Communist, charged with stating that the Premier (Mr. R. 8.-Bennett) had ordered the prison guards to shoot Tim' Buck in his cell. . ■ ' ■ ; The prisoner had just taken the box when prosecuting counsel, Mr..-"Peter White, objected on the grounds that even if Buck was shot at, it did not prove Smith's declaration that the Premier, .Mr. E. B. Bennett, ordered, it. Three defence witnesses denied that Smith made the statenicnt.
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Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 10
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122CANADIAN COMMUNISM Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 10
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