"STAY AT HOME."
ADVICE BY MAGISTRATE.
COMMUNIST BOUND OVER,
"TOO EXCITABLE IN CROWD."
On agreeing to enter into a bond of £100 that he would keep the peace for 12 months, and keep away from street demonstrations, Richard James Schofield, aged 67, labourer, was discharged by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Police Court to-day. Schofield, a Communist, was remanded until to-day on charges of using indecent language to a naval man in Karangahape Road on Friday, April 15, and behaving in a disorderly manner. "Schofield is quite a decent old man, and a law-abiding citizen, whose ideas differ somewhat from ours," said his counsel. "Probably he is one of those men who were born about 100 years too soon." Mr. Hunt: Yes, I understand that there is no harm in him, but he should not have acted as he did that night. Addressing Schofield, the magistrate said: "Look here, Mr. Schofield, if I let you go now, will you enter into a bond of £100 that you will keep the peace and keep away from street demonstrations? I don't want to send you to prison. Counsel said his client would give that undertaking. Mr. Hunt: Very well, you can go now. Stay at home, Mr. Schofield. You're far too excitable to be mixed up in a crowd.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1932, Page 8
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