PART IN A RIOT

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 15

PART IN A RIOT

AN ALLEGED LEADER

JURY, DISAGREE

(By Telegraph —Press Association ) AUCKLAND, 29th July

The trial of James Henry Edwards on a charge pi taking pait jn a not on 14th Apnl vag concluded in the E-jupicnic Court to da>. Aftei a lengtM ictiremcnt tho jurj disagicod and a new trial was ordered.

Summing up, the Judge flortited out (that tho moat dangcioua type in thecommunity might bo not a man who ;uas openly violent, but the man -nho ivas fluent witli his tongue, and pel laps saturated -with undesirable httia and who influenced hia fellows to tnko pait m such proceedings as tliose or 14th Apul There i\as iinple o\idcncc that Edwarda -vvaa^asaociitcd tuUi tlfo jirocession that night, and ample o\j. denco that tho noting wis not ii sud den explosion, but premeditated In such circumstances as arose the Jiobco were fully -justified in using then batons, and if Edwirds did as ho and ho did, urge these people to take bitons from the police "and use no ■violence," then he was undoubtedly encouraging a not. What light had he -when the police wore discharging then duty to encourage his men to seue then batons?

Ihe itir\, after four lioui^. letup in it, disagieed A nc« tn.il i\asl ordered,