ALLEGATION OF SEDITION
CANADIAN CLERGYMAN CHARGED HEAVY GUARD ROUND COURT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Toronto, March 5. Armed soldiers patrolled the Supreme Court area at the opening of the trial on charges of sedition 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 shoot in his cell Tim Buck, a Communist leader who was serving seven years’ imprisonment for unlawful conspiracy. Associate defence counsel include Mr. Leo Gallagher, California, who defended Van der Lubbe, who was beheaded for complicity in the Reichstag fire. Buck, heavily manacled, was in the court awaiting a call as a defence witness.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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