LAWLESSNESS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20550, 19 May 1932, Page 3

LAWLESSNESS.

: —▼ - EIGHT CO^I^TED. * , v " J: ~. V END OF RIOT CASES. . .PRESS ASSOCIATION TEIOCGSAMIi. 1 .. 7 WELLINGTON, May 18. : Eight j men : were convicted by Mr -E. Page, S.M., to-day of inciting to lawlessness on either Tuesday or-Wed-nesday of last" week, and each was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon withip. twelve months, conditional on- his entering' within seven days into a bond, with a surety of £SO, to be of good behaviour. . They were Patrick Dolan, abas Michael Dermody, 46, a labourer; Bernard Charles Whitlow, 29, a labourer; Gustavus Harold Kitchener' Isaacs, 18, a ; presser; William Victor Guilford Hargreaves, 21, a labourer; Frank Parker, 24, a labourer; Reginald Pat-, riclt Johnston, 30, a steward;' Thomas Martin Kilkelly, 22, a labourer; Bertram Charles Ross, 54. a cook. In the case of William Reilly, 38, a carpenter, sentenced on Saturday to one month's imprisonment, a rehearing was granted and the case brought into line with the others. A similar sentence was imposed. The Magistrate said tlie question of [fenalty had given him much anxious consideration. The cases differed essentially from those in which shop windows were wantonly smashed and goods looted. 'Though there could be no denying the seriousness of the charge of inciting to lawlessness, , he • thought it probable defendants were earriedaway by the prevailing excitement and that they did not realise • the danger of another disturbance being started. Their conduct was thoughtless, rather than calculated or vicious. He therefore had come to the conclusion that imprisonment should not be imposed. A charge against Marius Petersen; 44, a labourer, of wilfully breaking a window, , was dismissed, owing to doubt. Harry Clarence Berney, 31, a storeiuan, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the theft of jewellery. A charge against George Stanley Pegley, 33, a labourer, who had elected to be tried by a jury, was dismissed, owing to a doubt of intent. William James Baker, 35, a fireman, who . was sentenced fo two months' im-

prisonment on Saturday forthe_theft of a glass mug, was committed to the Bnpreme Court for tt-ial on charges of using, indecent language and being' a rogue and a vagabond, in that he wma found armed with a baton and-» stone, with _ felonious intent. This ends the riot- cases.