GITY DISORDERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1932, Page 8

GITY DISORDERS

COURT PROCEEDINGS

SIX MORE CASES HEARD

ONE MAN IMPRISONED

Six further cases arising out-of the > disorder in" the city on 10th and 11th May are being heard by Mr. E. Page, S.M., to-day. ..■:.:

The excuse that the, accused had become annoyed at- being stopped three times by special; constables and had remonstrated with them was advanced by counsel on behalf of Ernest Walter Dudley, a plumber, aged 32, who pleaded guilty to inciting lawlessness: Sub-Inspector Ward said that" on Wednesday night, 11th May, a company of . specials was at the corner of Marion and Ghuznee streets. The accused was in the crowd, and started to .make a speech, and then called out t.o the specials:—"You don't know what you are doing, .you dirty lot of scabs, You don't know what you are doing." The accused (froni the dock): "That's wrong/ I didn't say that." : '; When the. accused .was arrested) the Sub : lhspector went on, hq was in' a very bad temper and as a result of his condoiet it looked as if there would be further trouble:- '■ " . ■-..-. , Counsel said that the accused was a plumber on his own account, and had had nothing whatever to do yrith the demonstrations- ihf the city. ' Oh-the Wednesdaynight- he.was trying to. get to his home in Brooklyn, but iv coming across the ' city he was stopped, and deflected from his course three times by specials. ■ On the last occasion the accused became impatient and remonstrated with the specials, but he denied using the words: "You dirty lot of scabs." Mr. Page said he would, deal with Dudley in the same way as he had done with others charged with similar offences. The accused was convicted and ordered to come, up for sentence if called upon>within twelve months, on condition , that within . seven days, he enters into'a bond : of £50, with a surety of .£so'to be of good behaviour during that period.- - ■•.-■' THREE MONTHS' GAOL. "This seems to' me to'"be a deliberate act on the part of the defendant' designed to -incite lawlessness on the part of the crowd and induce them to rush Parliament House gates,'.' said the Magistrate' when sentencing - George Alexander Robert Irving, aged 32, to three months' imprisonment on a ; charge of inciting lawlessness. Irving, . said ' Sub^lnspeetor Ward, climbed up a tree outside the Parliament House gates while the crowd was waiting outside on' the Tuesday afternoon. He yelled and screeched for some time until he had attracted attention,'and then said: "We are not going to: stand for this sort of thing. We'll give them, another five minutes, then over the top,we .go." Shortly after . these .remarks' a section of the crowd tried to force the gates, and missiles such as sticks, stones, and an iron bar Were thrown at the police. Tho accused had been before the Court on a number of 'occasions for criminal offences, dating back to 1920. TO KELP A.FRIEND. . ' A fine-'of-£B,* in' default seven days' imprisonment, was.imposed on Frederick : 'Alexander • Corby, a , seaman, aged: 28, who pleaded not guilty-to obstructing Constable Rush while in the lawful: .execution of his, duty. The evidence was that while Constables Burke arid Rush,, were . arresting a man;named. Blaney in Willis ; street on the Tuesday night, 'Corby, ■who had, been drinking . with5 Blaney, nad a short scuffle with' Constable Rush. "Brawls of this nature" or interference of this, sort under the'eouIditions, pertaining on,the 10th are very serious things," Sub-Inspector Ward said. '..,..• *'• i Counser said it-' was • obvious that neither the accused nor<Blaney had Had anything to do with the rioting^ They lad come, out of a-hotel at 6 o'clock, ■»nd were .walking down, the -street, when Blaney was arrested. Corby went to inquire what his companion was being arrested for, and the" scuffle followed. Corby came from an excellent family, and he had an unblemished re.cord.. When the Tahiti and Greycliffe collided in-the Sydney Harbour /some years ago the accused was a member ,of the crew of the Tahiti,-and he was the only man on the ship who' Trent over the side. -He was instrumental in,saving a number-of lives, a,nd for this he was awarded .the Royal Humane Society's medal, and was also presented with a purse from the passengers of the Tahiti. L: . / f TIN OF PEPPER FOUND. Charles Maurice Brooks, a labourer, aged 36, pleaded not guilty to being a rogue and vagabond in that he wafs; found armed with a tin of pepper with a felonious intent. , Constable said that' last .^Thursday night he arrested the accused on, another charge and the tin of pepper was found when the accused .■was searched. Asked what he had the jpepper for Brooks said: "On the night before last some of the specials Were on a. roof opposite our hall. They threw ibottles and bricks through the window. We heard they were going to raid the Ball, so I got the pepper and took it idown to the office." • Asked if "he was going to throw the pepper at the specials Hie accused replied that hfe-'.was'-not going to.stand |by and be knocked about. He said tho bottle and the.brick had not broken the window because it was up a bit. Brooks, who admitted he was a member of the Communist Party, said that he had^brought the pepper to the Communist'hall in Farrish street but had, only stayed there1 for a few minutes. He said the party had been threatened' . and he personally had been threatened, and he carried the pepper purely for . self-defence.. • • ..

The Magistrate reserved his decision, (Proceeding.) ";