I was then Premier. The day after the tire-cutting episode, I was waited on by a delegation of auto owners headed by the vociferous Charlottetown man who had received such cheers at the Cove Head meeting. He was the Speaker for the delegation and lost no time in telling me that the delegation wanted me to have the culprits discovered and punished. I told them I was sorry for their misfortune and would endeavour to find who the guilty persons were. But I could not resist the temptation of telling the chairman of the dele- gation that I had not forgotten his Cove Head speech and that Nemesis had apparently caught up with him.

I engaged a detective who was not long in finding out who most of the guilty persons were. But by this time, the indignation had pretty well subsided and I decided to let the whole matter drop."

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