Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-26
CANADIAN HIGH LIFE SCANDAL.
Arrest in Gotham Of Former Ottawa
Official Reveals Conspiracy.

Capt. Reginald Salmon, former wreck
commissioner of the Dominion of Canada
cousin of Vice Admiral Salmon. retired, of
the royal British navy, and nephew of Sir
Arthur Denny, Bart, Is a prisoner in the
New York Tombs
This highly connected Englishman is the
central figure in a complicated and amaz-
ing scandal of international proportions. in
volving the Hon. Raymond Prefontane,
Canadian minister of marine: Capt. Osprey
G. V. Spain. present Canadian wreck COM
missioner and commander of Canadian
cruisers, and his wife, Mary Beatrice Spain,
for years a leader of government house So
ciety in Ottawa and the close personal
friend of Lord and Lady Minto.i
Mrs. Spain, who months ago left her hus-
band under a formal though secret agree
ment of separation, is in New York, living
in poverty at 151 I'd avenue, while bravely
concealing her misfortunes from her dis
tinguished friends and family connections.
Capt. Salmon is content to remain pris-
oner in the TombS rather than make public
his humiliation by an appeal for bail to any
of his aristocratic Canadian friends, all of
whom are wondering what has become of
him.
He Is charged under an almost obsolete
section of the penal code with imperson-
ating Capt. Osprey G. V. Spain and with
maintaining the marriage relation with the
real Mrs Spain in New York
There is second charge against Capt
Salmon of an attempted Illegal operation
upon Mrs. Spain. and on this he is held. to-
gether with DR.. Andrew Fulton of $40 50th
street, Brooklyn, to await the action Of the
grand jury.
Emphatic denial of both charges Is made
by Capt. Salmon. Mrs. Spain and DR.. Full
ton. while astonishing counter-charges are
made of an alleged conspiracy, Matched in
the highest official circles of Canada, to
and {chn Col,
blight the reputation of the defenseless
woman he has ventured to befriend.
1t now appears that in October Of last
year Capt. Salmon publicly resigned the
post OF Canadian wreck commissioner as
signing as his reason that the Canadian
minister of marine. Raymond Prefontaine
had attempted to influence his decision in
an important collision case involving big
sum Of money and responsibility for the loss
of five lives.
1t will be news for the Canadian house of
commons that Salmon Is prisoner behind
the bars and that Mrs. Mary Beatrice SPAIN
the brilliant society leader of a year ago
and the close friend of Lady Minto Is
charged as the captains accomplice in GRIM
inal acts.
They unhesitatingly denounced the
charges made by Capt. Spain absolutely
false and insisted that proof would be forth
coming at the proper time of a conspiracy
engineered by powerful governmental ring
in Canada to crush Salmon, dreading fur
Their exposure at his hands.
Coming to New York on October H. a few
days after his post at Ottawa had been
filled, Capt. Salmon tried his hand at Wall
street speculation and lost heavily. The
sudden and unexpected attack of his enc
mics found him in a strange country and
practically without funds.
But Lawyers Thomas S. Morgan and J. s.
Harrison of 1T Broadway have taken up
his case, and are now hard at work on the
preliminaries of proposed campaign that
will carry the fight back across the Cana
dian border, and as indications now point,
into the Canadian house of commons.