The Ontario Supreme Court today ordered the issuance of subpoenas to Mayor Philip Givens, Alderman David Rotenberg, and two ranking police officials to appear as witnesses in a hearing to be conducted by Justice of the Peace R. I. Mowat against John Beattie, 24-year-old, self-styled leader of the Canadian Nazi Party.
Beattie is scheduled to go on trial before a magistrate here on charges of unlawful assembly, arising out of a meeting he had tried to hold in Alan Gardens, a public park, in May, 1965. Both the justice of the peace and the magistrate had previously rejected Beattie’s request for subpoenas to the Mayor, the alderman, Police Chief Simmons and Superintendent of Police Adamson who, he claimed, were near the Alan Gardens fracas nearly a year ago. He insisted that the testimony of the four would be relevant to his defense. Both Mayor Givens and Alderman Rotenberg are Jewish. The Supreme Court decision overrules the lower courts.
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