Mr. BRODEUR.
Whether it is going to be in public or not I do not know.
Mr. R. L. BORDEN.
Is it to be continued?
Mr. BRODEUR.
I do not know. I know it is going to begin on Friday. I heard that it was going to sit on Friday and Saturday. That is all the information I have.
Mr. BERGERON.
Who suggested that lawyers should be appointed to carry on the investigation? Did the suggestion come from Judge Cassels or anybody else?
Mr. BRODEUR.
In an interview which I had with the judge he thought it would be desirable that some lawyers should be employed for the purpose of assisting him in the investigation.
Mr. FOSTER.
Will the minister inform the House as to the ground upon which , the two lawyers who have been selected have been selected?
Mr. BRODEUR.
If there are any special grounds?
Mr. FOSTER.
Yes.
Mr. BRODEUR.
No, not that I know of. They are men of repute and that is the only reason why they have been selected.
Mr. SAM. HUGHES (Victoria and Hali-burton).
Mr. Speaker, I desire to rise to a question of privilege. I notice that the other day I was credited with a remark concerning a comparison between Doukho-bors and some religious order in Ottawa. It is bad enough for me to be responsible for all I really do say, but on that occasion I happened to be some hundreds of miles
or more away when the remarks were uttered and I do not desire to be associated with them.
Mr. T. BEATTIE (London).
Mr. Speaker, some ten or twelve days ago, at Wolse-ley barracks in the city of London, a foul murder was committed. Private Moir shot down a colour-sergeant without cause or reason in cold blood.
Mr. SPEAKER.
This is not the proper time to enter upon a discussion. The motion to go into Supply will be reached shortly and then the hon. gentleman may bring the matter up.
Mr. BEATTIE.
I only want to ask if the government had heard of it. However,
I will bring it up later.
FIELDING moved that the House go into Committee of Supply.
Mr. BEATTIE.
After committing the murder Private Moir obtained two revolvers and a rifle and a large quantity of ammunition and he disappeared from the barracks and has not been heard of since. The police of London have done their best to discover and apprehend the man, but he has got away into the country and the county constables are somewhat indifferent about attempting to arrest a man who is heavily armed in the manner in which this man is, aud I do not think that they have given the matter the attention that they should have. I think that if some moderate reward were offered for the capture of this man he would very likely be obtained. The gentleman whom he murdered was not a member of his corps at all. He was a colour-sergeant named Lloyd belonging to the 20th battalion of Stratford and he was only there taking a course of instruction in order to pass an examination which would qualify him to occupy a position in his regiment-a young man of twenty-two years. It is a very serious case and I think that something should be done by the government in the way of offering a moderate reward for his capture.
Mr. BERGERON.
What kind of a rifle has he to defend himself with?.
Mr. BEATTIE.
That I do not know.