SEDITION TRIAL
CANADIAN CLERGYMAN A NOTED COMMUNIST (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) TORONTO, March 5. (Received March 6, at 5.5 p.m,) Armed soldiers patrolled the Supreme Court area at the opening of the sedition trial of the Rev. A. E. Smith, a noted Communist, who is charged with stating that the Prime,Minister (Mr R. B. Bennett) ordered prison guards to ehoot in his cell "Tim" Buck, a Communist leader who was serving seven years for unlawful conspiracy. The defence counsel include Mr Leo Gallagher, Of California, who defended Van der Lubbe, who was beheaded for the Reichstag building fire. Buck, heavily manacled, is in court awaiting a call as a witness for the defence.:
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22205, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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115SEDITION TRIAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 22205, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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