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The witness was subjected to severe | questioning By the Attorney for the de- | fence. He was also asked to draw a | diagram of the house in question and to | place on the dingram the position which he was in relarion to the house at the ‘ time of the tragedy. Wiiness said that it was impossible for him to comply with all that was required of him by the At- | torney as he had never learnt to draw, | and was never accustomed to draw. | e next witness called was Inspector Prince of ihe Police Force who testified | that within 20 minutes after the shcot- | ing affair he was on the spot. He saw a | revolver on the floor. | The witness took up the firearm and examined it and found that it had been | charged with six shots, one of which bad been fired. He asked the accused if he had ever saen the revolver befvio, o said, ‘'No'’. | He asked the persens .. auaing around ' whether they had evei s¢en 'hat revolver | before or could identify it in any way. Those who were around knew nothing | about it. Witness looked arounc tur . :use and saw fresh neadle work wici wio.d elots, | He took up the earpet and examined ii. | He then left a patrolmszn and went to ‘he Hospital, accompanied by Jemmott. The accused told witness that the eau-c ¢ *he shooting was a letter the 7= ascd Liad received that morning from .. ioua by the 'Fort St (ieorsa| thal 1y 10 | tended was to be married soon and that | the lefter bearing this information was | missing and he would be glad if we could | got a chance to cverhacl the pocket of the deceased to see if that letter was | there. When we reached the hospital the In- s;ector informed us that we coala not then see the deceased. On leaving the hospital just as the wit- néss reached the door he met the Chief of Police to whom he showed the re- voiver. : When witness teturned to the office abou: 2 hours later several persons camie there testiiying that they knew the ac- cused to be the owner of a revolver, One individual testified that he posi- tively knew the revolver as he could identify it from certain marks thereon. The revolver was placed on a table with other revolvers and the person in question identfied the correct revolver | taking it from the rest. 1 Twn hours later, two other persons eame in and one said that the accused | had offeved him a revo.ver for sale. In reply to the questicn from counsei fcr the accused, witness testified that Lie did not know ¢l his own persoral Know- ledge whether a revoiver was in the pos- session ot the accused. ! At this siage the exanination adjourn- ed until 9 o’clock on Saturday morning.— West tkina News, Dec. 16th. | (1o be continued) | 5> 1. U RO I A& VIS | TELEGR-+ MS. . ST. CROIX STATION. - London, Dee. Ib6th. - The event of ~ the day, in connection with the Irish settlement was the decision of Mr. Bo- nar Law, one of the strong men cf the Ulster side, to accept the treaty, and if not toinvite Ulster to come inwo the set tlement, at all events to counsel the ac- ceptance of the boundary’s commission which the Marquis of lLondonderry in the Honuse of Lords hin‘ed, Ulster might leject. My. Bonar l.aw had been con- fidently relied upon by the ‘‘Die-Hards”’ if he spoke at all, to support Lord Car- son in:opposing tne treaty, or at the worst oro nain neutral. Hi: speech has taken much of the force out oi the Car- sonite attack, and is considered to have insur=d th~ ratification o the treaty by an overwhelming majori'y in the House of Commoas. London, ee. 16ta.- Lord London- derry. sprasia In the House o1 lLords today in opposition to the treaty withk Ireland, declared he litened to Lord Curzoans’ speceh yesterday in favour of tne pact with the greatest astonishment. He declared that the Foreign Seeretary’s remarks were I.ot original, adding that their s:ibs:iance hdd been delivered on many occeasions by Mr. John Redmond”’ and statesmen of that type. ''Lord (.on- d waderry proceeded to declare that Lord rkenhead one of the negotiators o the tcoaty, had embarked on a gambl, the conseguence of whieh. if it failed as he believed it wouid. nobady could vredict. Lord Loodonderry argued tnat the union of Srath Afriea otfered no analogy what- ever .o thie lrish situation, and declare this (reaty was only a temporary paili- ative and not a permanent sblation., He declared thal the Govt. which bad railed to suppress vebellion would not be able to prevent secession, Lord :.ondonderry, who is a member of the Ulster Govt. hinted that Uister might refuse to nomi- pate a representative on the proposed boundary commission, Viscount Bryce, in the House of Lords, madea striking contributior to the debate =He admitted that the treaty was imperfeet in form, but contended that Great Britain was entitied to the experiment of throwing theresponsibility of its own administra- tion or: Ireland. Lendon, Dec. 16th.—Addressing a labour deputaticn last night, on the question of unempioyment. Mr. Lloyd George mentioned thai before the war Great Britain drew about 200 million pounds yearly froni investm nts abroad and also <aved between -three ard .our hundred m tlions pounds yearly ‘or in- vestments. lhe couni:ry could not do that any longer. Mr. Clynes inter- . posed with the len@ik that France and Germany had practically no unemploy- ment. Mr. Lioyd George agreed and said that hait of the French population was employed on the land end a large proportion was abscrbed by ccuscripticn. Then there was employment provided by restoring the devastatéd areas. Regard- ing Germany, he said the pe~ le were living under artificial conditicns on ac- count of the large output, of paper cur- rency. Mr, Rathenau. who visited Eng- land recently as a representative of the German Government, told me that there would be an absolute collapse in Ger- many if things go’on as at present, said the Premier. Does the labour party sug- gest that we shou'd adopt such proceed- ings in this courtry, turniag togthe ques- tion of reparations, Mr. Lloyd George said. Germany had not even began to pay Great Britain on account of Jdevastat- ed areas and she hacd only partly paid for the cost pf the armies of occupatior. Was it really suggested, he asked, that Great Britain should not insist upon Gei- many paying for the damage she bas done’”. lam bound to see that Germany pay for the damage she has done to the utmost capacity. Apart from that, he did not wish to press overburdening claims on Germany. The British for- eign debts, he said, amounted to mil- lions of pounds. sterling incivding in terest. He agreed with the labour party that an agreement was desirable among the nations to deal wih the question of naitional debts. He caid he did not know whether the Irich pre- blem really bad been solved. but you will know, he concluded, what it mesns for the business man of the Fmpire. The Govt. has cured this running sore at the very heart, of the Empire and enable the Irish people to take their place side by side with the great self- governing Dominions, ir the Council Chamber, London, Dec. 16th.~ The Hovse of Commons teday adopted the reply to II’I(”bLJ&GCII from the thione on the An- glo-Irish treaty, rejecting ithé Unionist amendment to the aadress, by a vote of 401 .to 88. The adoption of the ad- dress means the acceptance of the treaty by the House of Conmons. The Bouse of Lords took similar action only a few minutes later. The lords rejecied the Unionist amendmentby a vote of 166 to 48, Dublin, Dec. 15th. The second private session ¢f the Dail today, havite under consideration the Arglo-lrish treaty, -d- --jourred without reachirg a decisien 1t Will leassenbie in privare sessicn lepmor- POW, 160 Cenlinue i1 delikerztiore, Ike most thal cab te :2id Icri bt is (het there 18 @ slicre lessibilly bt (ke pLblic sessicn, at whkich 1 Foped to feke 2 vole cn ike laiifeziicn ¢f the lrealy may rcl ke Leld uptil Sattrcey. Washingten, Lec. I€th --NMI Raifour gave notice leccay that Great PBritain wculd prerose ic ‘le arms conference the total abclition ot submarines. - Faris, Lee. 16ih —The Senate tonight voteo ccrnfidence in the Govt of M. Bri- and on ihe question of the resumption of relations by France with the Vatican. The vote was 174 to 129.