“Five Long Smiles When They’re Freed,” Toronto Globe. July 17, 1919. Page 03. --- Veterans Who Ran Foul of Temperance Act Released In London --- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) London, Ont., July 16. - With smiles, which Deputy Sheriff B. F. Watterworth affirms were as long as a dollar clothes line, five war veterans who had run foul of the Ontario Temperance Act were liberated from the county jail to-day in order that they may participate in the peace celebration on Saturday next.
The order to release the prisoners came from the Department of Justice at Ottawa, but stated that action was taken with the co-operation of the Provincial Government,.
The quintette which forthwith posed to be photographed with two officers of the Army and Navy League, through whom their appeal was made, was composed of Charles Gibson of Strathroy, and Thomas Murray, Charles Woods, John Dunn and Charles Chapman of London.
Guelph, July 16. - (Special.) - The order issued by the Department of Justice releasing all returned men who are serving sentences in the jails throughout the country for minor offences will not have to be applied in Guelph. At the present time there are but five prisoners in the County Jail, but none of them is a returned soldier.