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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 : 
 
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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 
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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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 National Policy stump orator, the last of the company's 
 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. 
 
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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. 
 
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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- 
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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 
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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.