COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 88, 12 July 1918, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

THE I.W.W. ARREST.

ALLEGATIONS. AGAINST THE POLICE. Press Association—Copyright. ‘ Sydney, July 11. Recent endeavors of certain members of the Assembly to obtain a new trial of the prisoners and the rejection of a motion to appoint a Royal Commission, culminated ini sen sational allegations. Brookfield stated that new evidence had come to light, based on a written statement by Scully, a. Crown witness, in which he alleged the Government promised him two thousand pounds to secure evi douce to convict the I.W.W. men. Two constables asked Scully to place cotton waste ini the pocket of one of the I.W.W. members. The police prepared the evidence which was handed to Scully and which 1m was told to learn. The Government actually paid Scully three hundred pounds. Brookfield further alleged that the case waiW a “frame up” on the part of the police. Ore material witness died under mysterious circumstances, which were never cleared up. If Scully left, no other witness would prove the ease against the police. A ' sensational uproar, ensued when it transpired that Scully had left the country last month.