MAN KEEPS HIS WORD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20057, 14 March 1935, Page 2

MAN KEEPS HIS WORD

back TO THE “MOUNTIES” A wealthy man, who made a ‘‘gentleman’s agreement” with Canada s famous “Mounties” that he would return to face a serious charge against him sailed from • England in January to keep his word. The man, William Alexander Yule, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was accompanied bv his wife. He was unable to take with him his four-year-old son Bobby, as the child was ill with chicken-pox, and had been left with relatives in Edinburgh. Yule was arrested on Christmas Eve on board a tender in Southampton Water as he was travelling out to meet his wife and son, who were arriving from Canada to spend Christmas and the New Year in England. He had planned various festivities for his wife and son; but instead of merrymaking he spent the festive season in a cell in Brixton Prison.

When Yule appeared before a London magistrate it was stated that the charges concerned the smuggling of liquor into Canada, and that a sum of one million dollars was involved. The “Mounties,” who had been looking for Yule for a year, would not, it was stated, send an escort, and would agree to his being released if he would give his word as a gentleman to return to Montreal within a reasonable time.

Before he sailed Mr Yule said: “I am going back to keep my word. The ‘Mounties’ are sportsmen. I will not let them down. I have a perfect answer to the charges against me. I am a liquor merchant, I sell liquor. I do not smuggle. I expect to be ac quitted."