“JUDGE” SWINDELL
THE TIN HARE INQUIRY. Received Aug. 12, 10.10 p.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 12. Mr. Justice Haise Rogers, the Royal Commissioner appointed by the Stevens Government to investigate the allega tions regarding tin hares and fruit machines, resumed the inquiry to-day. Mr. M. Davidson, former Minister of Public Works, whose name was men tioned in connection with a tin hare license for Broken Hill, declared that he had made no request to anybody for shares in any company being formed for Broken Hill and nobody had any authority to use his name. Somebody committed perjury in implicating him. The Koya I Commissioner said he was satisfied that. Mr. Davidson was not im Mr. Davidson created mirth when he said that Swindell had been introduced to him ar the Stadium one night as ‘Judge” Swindell. He believed that he came from Chicago originally. Mr Justice Janies had introduced him as “Judge” Swindell and he concluded that he was a man of some repute.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 190, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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