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MANUFACTURED BY P. W. ELLIS & CO., TORONTO.
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The N P. and Watch Cases.
S?]jr^nE Canadian jewellers and many other people in
'^jr Canada are doubtless anxious to know the result
^5> of that celel)rated *'AVatch Cases" case of the
American Watch Case Co. of Toronto (not to he
ctmfounded with the American Watch Co., of Waltham,
U.S.) rcrsfdi W. F, Doll, formerly wholesale jeweller, of
Winnipeg. This was the action of the American Watch
Case Company ajjjainsfe Mr. Doll, claiming; $5,000 damages
for alleged slander. It will he remembered that Mr.
Doll had jHirsistently advertised the Company and Mr.
McNaught, its business manager, as manufacturing
gold-plated watch cases and stamping them ** Warranted
14k.," and as manufacturing silver-plated watch cases
and stamping them ** Perfection Coin Silver;" and also
as having stolen its name, '* American Watch Case Co.,"
from that of the oldest and best-known watch case com-
pany in the world, viz., the American Watch Co., of
Walthani. Mr. Doll had also stated that the Toionto
company imitated — in everything hut quality — the cases
manufactured by the American watch case companies.
These accusations were replied to by Mr. McNaught
through the pages of The Trader, the only jewellers'
paper in Canada, of which Mr. McNaught is editor and
j)roprietor.
In the summer of 1893, on the advice of Inspector
Archibald and the Queen's police-court lawyer, Mr. Curry,
Mr. Doll caused Mr. McNaught to api>ear in court on a
charge of fraud.
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The Queen's Solicitor failed to have Mr. McNau^ht
convicted. Mr. Doll claimed the facts had not heen fully
brought out, otherwise the case would have ended seri-
ously for the company and Mr. McNaught ; and, being
determined to prove to the public that all the charges
he had made against Mr. McNaught and the company
were true in substance and in fact, he rented a store in
the liossin House Block, King St., Toronto, and in the
show windows there exhibited a number of tlie American
Watch Case Company's watch cases, with large lettered
banners and cards, describing how and where the watch
cases, guarantees, etc., were deceptive and fraudulent.
Mr. Doll also exhibited over one hundred letters which
he had received from jewellers in all parts of Canada,
denouncing the American Watch Case Co.'s watch cases
as " snide," etc. This exhibition drew large crowds and
caused no end of talk, the company's office and factory
being on King Street West, a little west of the Rossin
House Block.
The President of the company, the Bev. John N. Lake,
and the manager, Mr. W. K. McNaught, were appar-
ently cut to the quick, and showed it by applying to the
court for an injunction to stop the exhibit.
They entered an action for libel against Mr. Doll, claim-
ing $5,000 damages ; but he showed to the satisfac-
tion of the court that his charges were well founded and
the exhibition justifiable. The company's application
for an injunction was therefore re/nsed. •
The show went merrily on ; but it was another case of
the Boy and the Frogs : the fun was all one-sided.
To show how anxious Mr. McNaught and the com-
pany were to bring Mr. Doll to trial and have the facts
brought out in court, and (if Doll could not prove what
he had stated) to secure judgment against him for the
$5,000 (for Mr. Doll is said to be well off, and one of the
largest real estate owners in the North-west), the com-
pany did not bring the action before the court loitil nearly
two years had elapncd.
In February, 1895, for some nine da>8 did the court
and a jury of ** twelve good men and true " continue to
investigate the company's watch cases and Mr. Doll's
charges ; and they inianimotidf/ a/freed that the company
were entitled to no damoifes. On two or three minor
points the jury disagreed, seven being in favor of Mr.
Doll and five against.
The total costs of the suit, amounting to over $6,000,
Mr. McNaught and the company must pay or have the
case tried again. This Chancellor Boyd, the trial judge,
advised them not to do.
The following are some of the facts as brought out in
court and under examination, which should be interest-
ing to all buying, selling, or using watch cases ; but par-
ticularly entertaining and enlightening to those looking
for pointers on the boasted morality of some of Toronto's
ministers and leading citizens, in whose interests these
watch cases are Ijeing manufactured under a protective
tariff of 35%.
The Pev. John N.Lake admitted that he was president
of the American Watch Case Co., and that he and his wife
held seven thousand dollars' worth of the company's stock.
For the office of president he drewasalaryof $1,000 a year,
presumably for the use of his name and inliuence in
selling stock. He (the reverend gentleman) when under
oath said it was very wicked to run street cars on Sun-
days ; but when questioned if it was wicked for his com-
pany to advertise watch cases and parts of watch cases
as solid gold and solid silver, that were really only gold
and silver plated, he declared he did not know. When
shown one of the company's gold-plated cases, which
they had sold and stamped "Warranted 14k.," but which
was shown to be only a gold-plated case with a 14 karat
back, he said he did not know if that were wicked or not.
He claimed that Mr.H.H. Fudger, wholesale fancy goods
dealer and president of the Goldsmiths' Stock Company
in Toronto, and a large stockholder in the American
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Watch Case Company, induced liira to buy the stock he
held in the A. W. C. Co.
Mr. W. K. McNaught, a well-known member of
one of Toronto's fashionable churches, draws a salary
of $5,000 a year as general manager and secretary-
treasurer of the company. He is also a prominent
member of the National Club (Conservative), and well-
known politically as an aggressive writer in the inte-
rests of the National Policy. He blushingly admitted,
when under cross-examination, that he christened that
combination of Canadian Conservatives of which his
company is made up, as the American Watch Case Com-
pany. When this patriot was asked why he did not
name it the " Maple Leaf," ** Canadian," " Ontario,"
*' Toronto," or •* Quigley," under which latter name the
Canadian cases were formerly made, he replied that the
Canadians owned asjiiuch of the continent as the Ame-
ricans did, and therefore had as much right to the name
** American" as the American Watch Co. of Waltham,
U.S. That was an answer worthy of those of /«^r Cmi-
servatire patriots Connolly, McGreevy, Watters, et a/.,
those thieves, personal friends of our Hon. Mackenzie
Bowell, who were let out of gaol because they knew so
much, or because, as they said, the atmosphere of the
cell made them ill.
Mr. McNaught, when asked whv ho advertised some
of the company's watch cases as Perfection Coin Silver
which were really only silver-plated, said that the silver
that was on them — the plating — was coin silver. The
same was true, he said, of the watch cases they stamped
** Warranted 14k." — the plating was 14k. gold.
He swore that the Eagle cases, of wliich he and the
company have sold thousands, and which were stamped
with an eagle, were hoUcI gold. Mr. Quigley, who is the
manager of the manufacturing department where these
€io-called solid gold Eagle cases were made, in his exami-
nation for discovery some weeks previous to the trial,
swore that they were not gold, and that their intrinsic
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value was only al)oiit 38 cents. These were the so-called
Ladies' soUd gold cases, which were shown to have been
sold by many Toronto jewellers at from $10 to $18 each.
Mr. McNaught turned a shade paler, and looked Hke
a cat caught stealing cream, when forced to confess that
he gave the name '* Mohawk " to those now celebrated
watch cases, which he was forced to admit contained less
than 5c. worth of gold. The " Mohawk," he said, was put
on the market to compote with and drive out a case of
similar appearance, v^'hich was being imported into Canada.
But Mr. McNaught's (or the company's) Mohawk had the
advantage in the Canadian market of 85 per cent, pro-
tection over the imported cases. They both cost the
same at the factory, and yet he and his company — that
combination of Conservatives — actually put into the
Canadian cases only one-twentieth of the quantity of gold
contained in the imported article. And tliey were hypo-
crites and thieves enough to advertise that " Mohawk '*
abortion as equal to the imported case.
Mr. McNaught admitted that Messrs. P. W. Ellis &
Co., the Goldsmiths' Stock Co., T. H. Lee & Son, all of
Toronto, and other Canadian wholesale jewelers, bad
bought largely of those " Mohawks," ** Perfection Coin
Silver," ''Eagles," and the cases stamped ''Warranted
14 k." Of these, the " Mohawks " and " Eagles " were
only brass gilded, the "Perfection Coin Silver" and tho
" Warranted 14 k." were only brass or base metal gold
plated. He was further forced to admit that the com-
pany made these goods and put them on the market,
while they were advertising as follows. The company's
advertising medium, the Trader, of January, , 1890, on
page 8, says :
" Every case manufactured by this company bears one
of their trade marks and is fully guaranteed no matter
by whom sold."
And their advertisements in the Toronto Globe and
Mail, which he admitted writing and paying for, say :
** We the American Watch Case Co., of Toronto, de-
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cidod at the outset jf our husinoss career that we would
make no pjoods that did not hear our registered trade
mark, and that f/vr// case filiould he stamped with the
exact (|uaHty of the metal with wliich it is made."
And yet the llev. President of this company, and the
goody-goody directors and stockhoklers could advertise
in this way, while at the same time they were creating
those cursed abortions, some of which contained neither
mark nor stamp, others contained fahc stamps, such as
*' Warranted 14k.," ** Perfection Coin," etc. ; while still
others contained, not their own name or trade mark,
hut a name and stamp imitating that of a well-known
and reliable United States manufacturer's case, like the
Montauk or Eagle. At the same time, these people
eeemed to think it very wicked and demoralizing to run
street cars on Sunday. Surely Canada is no place for
these people ; they should he in Abraham's bosom, with
Isaac and Jacob. Police Inspector Archibald, who is a
member of tlie same church as his superior officer. Mayor
Kennedy, as is also the president of this company, was
so busily engaged with the mayor in persecuting Mr,
Kelly and other liberal-minded people, who wanted street
cars on Sunday, that he had no time to look after a
concern, good, bad, or indift'erent, where a rev. gentleman
of his church did the honors.
The following, Mr. McNaught admitted, were the com-
pany's stockholders :
Rev. John N. Lake, Mrs. Lake, W. E. Boyd, Bev. R.
Brechen, H. H. Fudger, R. W. Clark, Mrs. (^ampbell, L
J. Gieran, Rev. A. H. Harris, Mrs. Jones, Albert Kliser,
M. Kavanagh, J. C. Kemp, J. Aird, Levy Bros., C. E.
Madison, Mrs. E. A. Madison, A. A. McDonald, John
McKnight, R. Russell, J. Scully, W. B. Torrence, G. F.
Warwick, W. K. McNaught, Robt. J. Quigley.
If these people were not aware before the trial of the
class of goods the company put on the market and the
way the working man w^as being skinned with the
goods which paid them — the stockholders — such big
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(lividendfl, they no^ know full well, and if honest, will
either compel the managers to make only honest good»
and honestly advertise them or ask the court to wind up
the hypocritical octopas which ip parading under a heavy
protective tariff as a National Industiiy.
Mr. R. G. Quigley, who draws $5,000 a year as man-
ager of the manufacturing department, the man who
carried out McNaught^s schemes in watch cases, it ap-
pears played up sick during the nine days* trial. The
people at the factory stated to the man with the suh-
pcena that Mr. Quigley was in New York. The lady at
his house said that he was sick in hed ; but a detective
learned that he was neither in New York nor sick in hed,
and was only ashamed to come to court and tell about
the " Mohawks," " Eagles," etc. He, apparently, had
more respect for himself and his family than had Mr.
McNaught and Rev. John N. Lake. If he had had his
way, the company's watch cases and their way of doing
business would not have been so acid -tried and exposed
in open court to public ridicule.
Messrs. Edmund Scheuer,A. C. Anderson, wholesale
jewellers, Toronto, and Prof. John Latimer, witnesses
for the company, all gave strong evidence in favor of the
defendant, instead of against him, as the company
supposed they would.
Mr. Scheuer stated that he always supposed that Mr.
McNaught's company put solid gold crowns on all their
gold cases, as they advertised them. He had always
bought and sold them as solid gold, and was much taken
aback to leain that he had for years unknowingly de-
ceived his customers, as he had been deceived by the
American Watch Case Company and Mr. McNaught.
Prof. (Rev.) John Latimer, Toronto, the assayer and
analytical chemist^ said that he had assayed one of the
companj^'s so-called 14 karat cases, which was stamped
with the company's trade mark, ** A.W.C.C. 14k." with
Maltese cross. He found it was not 14 karat.
True, Mr. Matt. Ellis, another strong Conservative and
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witnesses, showed his animus against Mr. Doll and the
yellow-dog species of fondness for Mr. McNaught and
the company in many ways. He went so far as to say
that his company (P. W. Ellis *fc Co.) had used Mr.
McNaught*s watch cases in very large quantities, and he
swore thei/ were well satinfied with them. But Mr. Ellis
had to confess, like another cat caught stealing cream,
to the gentle impeachment of the company of which ho
is a memher (P. W. Ellis & Co.) manufacturing rings
which contained about 77 per cent, brass or base metal
and only about 3B per cent, gold, or one-third gold and
two-thirds brass, and causing the same to be palmed
\i\K>n the consumers in Canada as solid oold. And this
while they are being protected under the National Policy
to the extent of 25 per cent.
That honorable gentleman the Hon. Mackenzie Bo-
well, whom the Christian Guardian delights to honor,
recognizes it as right and just for the manufacturers
in Canada to make these watch cases, rings, etc., where-
with to skin the farmers, and even assists by protect-
ing them to the extent of 25 to 85 per cent, in so
doing. But the honorable gentleman creates and recog-
nizes stringent laws against the farmer, who dares to
add, not 77 per cent., but even 1 per cent, of water to
the milk he sells to the manufacturer. In other words,
he compels the farmers in Canada to sell without pro-
tection unadulterated food of lef/al standard, weii/ltt and
measure to the manufacturer, but protects the manufac-
turer to the extent of 25 to 35 per cent, and allows him
to sell adulterated stamped- up goods like these watehes and
rings to the farmer, and while doing so the manufacturer
may be a member of the Cabinet, a minister of the gospel
or inspector of police ; and live in that city of churches
Toronto, where these same manufacturers, ministers and
others say it is very wicked to run street cars on
Sunday.
Mr. Doll, for his defence, had subpoenaed the following
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well-known Toronto jewellers, who had all been more or
less swindled or deceived by the watch cases manufac-
tured by the American Watch Case Co. of Toronto : —
Me88>*s. J. E. Ellis, Kyric, Morphy, Wanless, A. & B.
Kent, Mills, Parks, J. W. and J. T. Johnson, Spanner,
Dixon and Carnegie ; but, owing to Mr. McNaught's or
the company's witnesses all (with the exception of Mr.
Matt. Ellis) giving strong evidence in Mr. Doll's favor,
none of these gentlemen were called.
But Mr. Edgar Wills, Sec'y. -Treasurer of the watch
maiuifacturers' combination, and who is also Secretary
of the Board of Trade, was called, and he reluctantly
testified that lie, from instructions and a copy of a price-
list received from McNaught, caused to be printed and
circulated the American W^atch Case Company's price-
list of watch cases, where the company's gilt watch cases
containing less than five cents' worth of gold were ad-
vertised as ^^ (fold filled ;'' where brass watch crowns
gold-plated were advertised as " solid (jold ; " and where
silver-plated watch-cases were advertised as " Perfection
Coin Silrer.''
Mr. Wills swore no mistake had been made, and that
the goods were advertised according to Mr. McNaught's
instructions.
Mr. T. C. Davis, secretary of the Winnipeg Jewelry
Co., Winnipeg, whose evidence had been taken by com-
mission testified that he had ordered solid gold watch
cases from the A. \V. C. Co., of Toronto, which were
stamped "Warranted 14 k," and which he had sold as 14
karat gold but that proved to be only gold plated, and
that he had purchased and sold some of the company's
so called solid (/old " Eagle " cases, which proved to be
only a valueless composition, gold plated. He had sent
one of the A. W. C. Co.'s so called gold filled cases to
Chicago to be assayed, and which was found by U.S.
Assa.yer Weiss of that city to be only a gilt case, con-
taining loss than ten cents' worth of gold.
Prof. Thomas Hayes, assayer and analytical chemist,
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of Toronto, whose evidence was also taken by commis-
sion, said he had, by Mr. Doll's instructions, secured
one of the American Watch Case Co. of Toronto's so-
called " gold filled " cases, and had cut the same in two.
He had assayed one half, the other half was produced
in court. He found the half assayed to contain a frac-
tion over two cents' worth of gold, so that the whole
case would not contain live cents' worth of gold.
Mr. Doll was then called in his own defence. He
occupied one forenoon in giving a short history of him-
self, the class of goods manufactured ))y the American
Watch Case Co., and the causes which led to his exposing
them. He admitted publishing all the so-called libels
complained of ; he said whatever he had stated in print
or otherwise was absolutely true, and he had the proofs
in court wherewith to convince the jury.
The plaintiff's counsel spent two whole days in cross-
examining Mr. Doll, and only succeeded in bringing out
more evidence against the American Watch Case Co.,
and in clinching the nails already driven into the coffin
of that prince of mountebanks, Mr. W. K. McNaught,
better known as the Modern Ananias.
Mr. Doll apparently had not only a straight story to
tell, but understood his piece ; for in the two days he
spent in the box under the severe cross-examination of
the learned counsel, Mr. Lount, Q.C., assisted by the
astute Mr. Roaf, he did not contradict himself in the
slightest. As >ne of the reporters remarked, ** he was
the coolest man during his examination in the court-
room."
Mr. Doll said he was a naturalized British subject.
He had lived in Canada over 25 years, and had spent
over twentv two years in the iewellery business, nine-
teen years for himself. He had never failed, and had
always paid 100 cents on the dollar. He had sold his first
retail jewellery business for 100 cents on the dollar for the
stock and $100 for his goodwill ; and had sold his whole-
sale jewellery business, the last business with which ho
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was connected, for $25,000, and he was one of the largest
real estate holders in Manitoba. This was to show that
Mr. McNaught and the American Watch Case Co. lied
when they gave out to the public, as they did, that Mr.
Doll was an irresponsible party ; and McNaught was
perfectly well aware of those facts when he tried to pull
the wool over the eyes of the public, because for some
fifteen years previous he had through the columns of his
paper (copies of which were put in evidence) constantly
spoken in high praise of Mr. Doll's integrity. In De-
cember, 1890, he had devoted two pages of his paper to
a laudation of Mr. Doll's business ability and financial
standing, and held him up as an example for the imita-
tion of other Canadian jewellers.
Mr. Doll further clearly showed that, previous to the
inauguration of the National Policy, with its 35 per cent,
protection on watch cases, watch cases were manufac-
tured in Canada by the Mr. Quigley who is now manager
of the manufacturing department of the American Watch
Case Co. Mr. Quigley then made only honest watch
cases, and st.amped his own name in each and every
case he made. Mr. Doll produced some of Quigley's old
cases, and declared it was clear that the excessive pro-
tection made the then honest manufacturer dishonest.
Mr. Doll produced 40 or 50 watch cases such as the
company manufacture at the present time, some of which
were stamped warranted 14 k. that were not solid gold,
some were stamped '* perfection coin silver" that were
merely silver plated. Some which the company had
sold as solid (j(dd, stamped with an eagle, presumably to
make the public believe they were genuine United States
cases, but which were only a valueless composition gilded
over, and did not contain the maker's name and trade
mark. No wonder the A. W. C. Co., Mr. Quigley, and
liev. John R. Lake were ashamed of them. These
gentlemen were so busy fighting against the working-
men's Sunday street car, they had no time to put their
namo or trade mark on tJnngs like those eagle cases
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whereby the makers could be traced. Mr. Doll also pro-
duced a number of " Mohawks," so-called gold filled cases
which contained less than five cents' worth of gold ; these
he showed were made to imitate the well-known ** Mon-
tauk " ca^es manufactured in the United States, which
is a well-n.iiown first-cliss filled case and is fully guaran-
teed by the manufacturer to wear fifteen years. This
every dealer in Canada knows. The U. S. "Montauk'*
and Canadian ** Mohawk " were so much alike in appear-
ance that no jeweller could tell the one from the other
without closely examining the stamp.
Mr. Doll also produced some of the A. W. C. Co.'s so-
called guarantees, a slip of paper the size of a silver dollar
on which is printed the supposed guarantee which they put
in the backof gold filled cases. These guarantees he point-
ed out were very misleading, as the company only guaran-
teed their cases to be made to wear fifteen years, while
the United States made cases contained an honest guar-
antee that they would wear for fifteen years.
The Canadian guarantee was a blind which really had
no meaning, while the U. S. guarantee was what it pur-
ported to be, a guarantee as to quality and thickness of
gold, for which the American Watch Co. of Waltham
held themselves responsible. The Canadian cases, Mr.
Doll said, were like Mr. McNaught, '* made to be good."
Mr. Doll also produced a petition signed by the leading
jewellers in Canada, which he had presented to the
government, asking that it be made a criminal offence to
manufacture watch cases, rings, etc., such as those made
bv the American Watch Case Co. and P. W. Ellis Si Co.
unless they were stamped with the correct quality of the
material from which they were made. x\nother petition,
signed by over 150 jewellers, had also been presented to
Parliament, asking that the duty on watch cases and
clocks be reduced from B5 to at least 15 per cent., and
15 or 20 per cent, duty be put on diamonds, which are
now free, as diamonds were luxuries used only by the
capitalist or rich manufacturer.
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Mr. Doll pointed out that it was most unjust to tax
the poor man's watch and clock 35 per cent, and admit
the rich man's diamonds free.
The requests of these petitioners were not granted by
the Government (except so far as the reduction of the
duty on clocks from 35 to 25 per cent.), because Messrs.
McNaught, Ellis, and their friends sent in a counter-
petition at the same time, they having heard of the other
petition. . '
Mr. Doll filso produced a large bundle of letters
which he had received from jewellers in all parts
of Canada, denouncing the American Watch Case
Co. of Toronto, its manager McNaught, its watch cases,
and its way of doing business. Of these, the letters of
K. Bezanson, Moncton, N.B. ; W. N. Mills, P.E.I. ; B.
Knox, Mount Forest, Out. ; J. E. Ormoncl, Winnipeg,
Man. ; H. Pace, Lethbridge, N.W.T. ; and Jas. Eraser,
New Westminster, B.C., were read, and their denuncia-
tions were particularly strong and bitter. They consi-
dered the American Watch Case Co. 's goods a swindle on
the public, etc., etc., and contained offers to Mr. Doll of
money and other assistance to expose and uproot the
concern.
It was shown tLat the Canadian company stamped
their watch-cases — those they did stamp — " A.W.C.Co.,"
while the genuine, original American Watch Co., of
Waltham, Mass., always stamped their cases — until the
stamp was imitated by the Toronto company, — *' A. W.
Co.," after which they added '' Waltham." The Cana-
dian company continued to stamp theirs ** A.W.C.Co.,"
discreetly leaving out " Toronto." So that nine out of
ten people who are to-day carrying a watch-case stamped
*' A. W. C. Co." believe that they are carrying a genuine
Waltham or U. S. made watch case, whereas it is only
an N.P. abortion, masquerading under an old reliable
U.S. company's name..
It was also shown that Mr. McNaught had engaged
the services of Mr. Charley (C. D.) Maughan, who is
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employed as traveller by one of the stock-holders of the
company (H. II. Fudger, president of the Goldsmith's
Stock Company), to act as a spy on Mr. Doll's charac-
ter and business records in the districts where he had
done business for the previous nineteen years. But
though Mr. Maughan worked the ground over for two
years, he was unable to put his finger on a single blot ;
so that the line of defence Mr. McNaught had relied on
to discredit Mr. Doll's evidence, by endeavoring to show
he was not reliable, was entirely abandoned.
After the address by Mr. Lount, Q.C., for the com-
pany, and Mr. Kiddle, Q.C., for the defendant Doll, and
the summing up of Chancellor Boyd, the jury brought
in their verdict. They could not agree on some minor
points, but all were agreed that the company were not
entitled to any damages.
The directors succeeded in preientiuff all of the Toronto
papers {viiih. the exception of the Teleri ram) from publish'
ing the evidence as it came out in court. They tried hard
and brought strong influence to bear on the editor of the
Telepranif but it failed to prevent him doing his duty,
and publishing the (to the American Watch Case Co. and
its directors) death-dealing evidence. : u' / , .
And tlie Trader, Mr. McNaught's own paper, the only
jewellers' paper in Canada, said not a word to its nu-
merous readers about the evidence, pro or con. Of that
(to the jewellers) most important and interesting'' cases
case," wherefore so much silence, Brother McNaught ?
Has thy pen, with its hitherto boasted powers, followed
Ananias, or taken example of Judas and hanged itself?
Many people will, no doubt, from what was shown in
Court against the company and Mr. McNaught, find it
hard to understand how it came that Mr. McNaught was
not convicted of fraud on the charges made against him
in the Police Court, which were taken up so zealously
by Inspector Archibald and Crown Attorney Curry before
these gentlemen knew who Mr McNaught was, or who
was behind him and the conr^any. It appears that
v' en Mr. McNaught was summoned to the Pohce Court
he soon learned that Mr. Curry was the Crown Prosecu-
tor, the gentleman with whom it would rest to a very
large extent whether he would be convicted or not.
Mr. McNaught was nobody's fool in this instance. He
found that this Mr. Curry was part of the tail end, or
one of the junior members of the legal firm of Roaf, Roaf,
Curry & Gunther, and so our friend McNaught went to
the head of the legal firm, Mr. Roaf, and engaged him
for his defence. r^:> -
When the day set for trial arrived it was found Mr.
Curry had gone for his holidays ; and the Queen's work
devolved upon the real tail end of the legal concern, Mr.
Gunther, who was as putty in the hands of the head of
the firm, Mr. Roaf, assisted by Mr. Fullerton, Q.C., who,
it is said, has more weight before Col. Denison than his
ability should entitle him to. • • 'v
' The case, Mr. Doll says, was not properly or intelli-
gently put l3efore the magistrate by Mr. Gunther, and
was dismissed practically without being heard. Then
Mr. Roaf drew up a maliciously false report of the trial,
and Mr. McNaught with the company's funds (as he
himself was forced to confess) paid the papers for pub-
lishing it. The Telegram and World afterwards apolo-
gized editorially to Mr. Doll, stating that they had printed
it at so much a lino on Mr. McNaught's request.
Mr. Doll says that the American Watch Case Com-
pany's watch cases, P. W. Ellis k Co.'s rings, in-
voices, letters, petitions, etc., which figured at the
Police Court at the trial, and in the Rossin House win-
dow, will be put on exhibition in Montreal, Toronto, and
London as soon as the general elections are declared,
in order to show the public how the working man is
])eing skinned by the manufacturers under the N. P. or
national plunder policy of 25 to 35 per cent, protection.
Until then those articles, Mr. Doll says, can be seen
by any interested parties at his cottage, 56 Kew Beach.