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EFFIE WANTS HUME CALLED

wave was laid at the door of
narcotics, including unsolved mur-
ders, attempted murders, beatings,
ete. The public want to hear a
full account of the Constable Hay-
wood episode and an explanation
as to why he resigned from the
police force shortly after being
hailed as a hero in the Seminick
case.. These are legitimate ques-
tions people are asking, and should
be answered by the present in-
quiry.

“There is another aspect which
the public would like to see your
commission eee In many U.S.

cities over the last few years start-

ling disclosures have been made!

concerning the link-up of criminal
elements with politics. The people
of Vancouver want to know wheth-
er there have been similar prac-
tises here.

“Have criminal elements con-
tributed to political organizations
and have they in return gained
special favors?

“Has anyone connected with the

police administration benefitted
from contracts let for the - police

department? And why, for in-

| stance, was the towing contract
awarded to a firm, Buster’s, whose
tender was higher than others?

“I am taking this opportunity to
address you in this public way
since the inquiry is being con-
ducted publicly,” concluded Mrs.
Jones. “It is my sincere opinion
that the placing of these questions
before you and the public will help
clean up the situation in our police
administration and give Vancouver
citizens the protection in their
everyday lives which they BAS
eves right to expect.”

Long cross-examination fails
to change Cuthbert’s testimony

: “Get your program—you can’t tell the cops from the robbers without a program,”
said a citizen who fancied himself as a wag, while he fought his way into the courtroom
one day this week to hear the stories of bribery and corruption being unfolded in the sensation-
packed policy inquiry now taking place here. -

Key characters involved in the royal commission investigating charges of corruptness

in the Vancouver police depart-| -
ment include R. H. Tupper QC,
royal commissioner; J. G. A.
Hutcheson, QC, commission coun-
sel; Det.-Sgi. Len Cuthbert, key
witness; Walter H. Mulligan, police
‘chief; T. G. Norris, QC, Mulligan’s
counsel; and Ray Munro, reporter
for Flash, a Toronto tabloid sheet.

Veteran police officer Len Cuth-
bert, whose recent suicide attempt
helped trigger the inquiry, swore
that he and Chief Mulligan split
hundreds of dollars protection
money from three separate under-
world sources for a six-week period
in 1949—up to four $500 payments
from ex-bookie Pete Wallace,
$300 from a-man called Suther-
land or Sunderland, and amounts
ranging up to $300 from persons
in the West End whom Mulligan

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had identified only as “friends.”

Questioned by his counsel, H.
A. D. Oliver, Det.-Sgt. Cuthbert
said that in March, 1949, an ar-
rangement was- made _ between
Chief Mulligan and himself that
he would contact Wallace and col-
lect payments. The first time he

met Wallace at the CNR station),

and “Wallace gave me a paper bag

which contained $500 in cash and|_

a bottle or two bottles of whiskey.”
Oliver: “And what did you do
with these?’

Cuthbert: “The whiskey I kept.

The $500 in cash I kept in my)

possession until I had the next
daily phone call to the chief con-
stable’s office and as a result. of

that next daily phone call, on aj |

date I can’t give, I saw the chicf
constable in his office. And then
I took Wallace’s money, in large
dominations and told the chief
from whom this money came and
put it on his desk.. In return he
gave me one half of that $500—
$250.’’s

Cuthbert then ‘said that he had
given some of his share tio men in
the department.

Oliver: “Were there other pay-
ments?”
Cuthbert: “Yes, sir. Mr. Wal-

lace made two or three payments
at intervals of 10 days or so. He
would phone. I would meet him
and he would leave that parcel with
me of a couple of bottles of whis-
key and about $500 in cash and I
would, in every case, keep the
whiskey and I would pay the $500
at the next convenient arrangeable

‘| date, the nearest date that could

be arranged over the telephone,
to the chief constable’s office. I

1 would have half in return.”

Cuthbert testified tht he also
received $300 from one Sunder-

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land or Sutherland (“I think he
was a bookie’) and said that be-
fore he came to any concrete ar-
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money for a month on a trial
basis, just to see how it would
work out.”

Oliver: “What did you do with
the money?” —

Cuthbert: “Well, after Mr. Sun-
derland gave me money I took it
to the chief's office at the first op-
portunity ... it was cut in half
by him and I got $150 back.”

Regarding the bookies in the
West ‘End, Cuthbert testified that

“in conversations I had with the
chief constable they were always
talked of as ‘my friends’ or ‘our
Paeniss

I would go in (to Mulli-
gan’s ‘office if I had Mr. Wallace’s
money and I would give it to him.
I would give any if I had it or if,
on the other hand he had some
money from our friends—it’s an
awkward term but-I can’t give any
other name than that, sir—then he
would pass me that money in an
envelope. The money would prob-
ably amount to $200, $300. Prob-

| ably- $250,

“T think that the West End paid
according to how good business
in the city was at that time.”

Shortly after the Wallace ar-
rangements went into. effect,
Cuthbert testified, he received a
phone call from Magistrate Gor-
don Scott, who at that time was
the city prosecutor, asking him
to drop up to his house. He did,
and they had a conversation on
Scott’s verandah..

“He said that he had-heard some

received his permission to take

|had had a talk with the oe

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‘his testimony relating to the

very disturbing rumors and <
concerning the gambling del
said Cuthbert.

Finally, Cuthbert continua he
told Scott about his dealings with
Wallace, Sunderland and the West
End friends. E j

“tt wasn’t a very happy mele
ing,” said Cuthbert. “However
went home that night’ and the next
morning, I think, Mr. Scott phom
me and he was at my house wil
his car. _ He told me that he

police commissioner, Mr. OM; ;
arrangement's had been. made thé
I should accompany Mr. Scott 1

Charles Thompson.

“He drove me there and the
mayor permitted us to go. fo
study and after some prel
ary remarks about this ee i

being held confidential, unless
it was made available

any other source, | told
mayor, maybe not in a5 ae
words, but | told the mayor th
same thing as | told ‘Mr. Scot

“And I am not proud of that
But I told him. I asked! {Y
expected to be fired—mayrr
wouldn't have been so hard the? ,
I was six years. younger; difere™*
things have happened—

“However, I did ask, sir, i se
could be transferred immed ediaté
from the duties I was thet doit
and Iam sure they found 09
culty in finding a reason 10 i
fer me to office duty. And iad
transferred all the men wh0 ot
been working under, my. aint
at that time and they wé
tered throughout the departs
put on different work.

that time I have been in "cha
what we call now Detective
eral Office.’*

This week Cuthbert was ate
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tion by T. G. Norris, QC, ¢
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The probe is expected to &
tinue throughout a an
into: September.

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