SUBVERSION ALLEGED.
TWO MEN REMANDED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. Five charges under the Public Safety Emergency Regulations were brought against Harold William Klein (30), formerly a law clerk, in the Magistrate's Co'urt. In evidence, Detective-Sergeant Mciklejohn detailed a search of accused's home, when he found a' typewriter in which wae a duplicating skin on which were typed sentences from a book entitled "The Attitude of the Proletariat to War." Witness handed to Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., a book directing attention to certain passages allegedly subversive. Asked what he was doing with all that class of etuff accused replied, "I 'am not prepared to say." The case was adjourned till Thursday. Further evidence was heard in a similar caee against Leo Sim, a farmer, of Himatangi, but at accused's request an adjournment till Thursday was granted to allow him to call a handwriting expert and other witnesses.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1940, Page 10
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