MR THOMAS LAUGHED

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3792, 9 August 1932, Page 3

MR THOMAS LAUGHED

NO THREAT AGAINST Ills LIFE ARREST OF AN IRISHMAN Caust. and N GatUej 'i'oronto, August 7. Further police investigation suggests that there is little reason to I fear that Dan Malone f who was arrested hero yesterday, intended to kill the British. Dominions Secretary, Mr J. 11. Thomas. The arrest was j merely a precautionary act seeing that Malone is a leader of the unemjnoyed, an ardent suppbrter of Mr i do Valera and a- voluble speaker. If j he made threats they were not meant ; seriously. In ajiy case Mr Thomas did j not stop at Hamilton as expected, * but went direct to the Welland Canal on Saturday with the second official party, whereas the first party inspected Hamilton’s extensive engineering* works Unemployed declare that the police attempted to “frame’’ Malone by placing* a revolver on the running board of a motor tar in which he was travelling to Ottawa last week. : The police deny this. There is no evidence that Malone ever preached violence or carried ii rea i n is Mr Thomas dismissed the matter ! with a laugh.

THE ARREST Malone, an Irishman, was arrested and remanded iu custody on a charge ol vagrancy The police said that he attended the Workers' Economic Conference at Ottawa and intended to assassinate Mr Thomas, when visiting Hamilton on Saturday.