Commissioner Frazer’s report on Hedley Amalgamated, released May 10 by B.C. Premier Thomas Pattullo, contained positive evidence that diamond drill cores had been salted. William Cox, superintendent, and Jack Bacon, mine foreman, were arrested by provincial police, May 8, at Penticton, charged with conspiracy to defraud the public. Reprinted from The Northern Miner, May 1937.
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