I.W.W. INQUIRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17877, 24 August 1918, Page 8

I.W.W. INQUIRY.

SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyririrt. ' SYDNEY, August 23A sensational feature of Scully's further evidence was his , statement that he had difficulty in inducing Goldstein, one of the witnesses m the) I.W.W- case, to give Judd a statement, Goldstein fearing that when the police knew he had signed a statement against them he might be done away with. •

Scully, explaining his references to M'Allister's mysterious death, said .he was of opinion that M'Allister did not die a natural death. One side or the other got him. Scully 6aid he saw M'Allister perfectly well the day before he died, and had an appointment! with him at his (Scully's) solicitor's the next day, which M'Allister did not keep, instead, Scully heard' that (M'Allister had been found unconscious in a back yard. Next day he learned that M'Allister had died of pneumonia. Goldstein, examined, admitted "having made an untrue statement im-i pugnine the police in order to imperii the Government and get even with tho police for having ruined him at the Irish Inquiry.

Detective Sainsbury gave evidence that he had never received instructions to suppress the Critchley Parker pamphlet, which. 'he said, was Sinn Fein, I.W.W. and' Roman Catholicism all in one. Witness stated that a picture of Robert Emmet was found in every person's place searched. Goldstein said that up till Satuiclay last he was prepared to give falsa evidence, but he had seen the police now and he would tell the.truth. Headded that he knew the police were innocent, but ho agreed to manufacture a case against them. ■

(Received August 23, 11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 23. Throughout to-day's evidence at tha I.W.W. Commission, Goldstein main-' tained the falsity of the accusations against the police.