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PILOT AND CAPTAIN ARRESTED

Immediately after the announcement of the finding of the Court of Inquiry Chief of Police Hanrahan took into custody Pilot Frank Mackey on a warrant issued from Stipendairy McLeod’s office, charging manslaughter in connection with the death of Pilot William Hayes, who was killed on the IMO. A similar charge was laid against Captain Lemedec, of the Mont Blanc, and a half hour later at the corner of Prince and Granville Streets, he too ,was placed under arrest.

The information on which the warrants for arrest were issued by Stipendairy McLeod was laid by Chief of Police Hanrahan at the instance of the Attorney General’s Department. The information sets forth that
“Frank Mackey, of Halifax aforesaid Pilot