VERDICTS OF GUILTY
SUBVERSION CASES
THKKK MEX FOU SENTENCE (P.A.I WELLINGTON, Thursday. After a retirement of 20 minutes a Supremo Court jury to-day found Arthur Herbert Carman, aged 38. bookseller, guilty of attempting to publish a subversive document, but not guilty of attempting to conduct a meeting prohibited under the public safety emergency regulations. The prisoner, who was remanded for sentence, posted eight copies of a leaflet entitled "Defend Peace and Freedom at Home." written by the secretary of the Christian Pacifist Society, to residents at Johnsonville. Verdicts of guilty were returned against John Henderson Woodley. aged 21, school teacher, and David William Silvester, aged 28, clerk, on charges of attempting to conduct a prohibited meeting. In remanding them for sentence until to-morrow morning, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, intimated that there was a possibility of the sentences not being pronounced.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 108, 9 May 1941, Page 3
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