CARRYING A BLUDGEON

Evening Star, Issue 21078, 15 April 1932, Page 1

CARRYING A BLUDGEON

MAN SENT TO GAOL A FORMIDABLE BATON Walter Findlay Dore pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning, before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., to a charge of being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found armed with a bludgeon with felonious intent. Sub-inspector Cameron said the defendant had been taking part in soma of the unemployed processions during the past few days, and on Tuesday morning, the day following the trouble with the police, a large crowd collected near the Town Hall. Shortly after noon Dore was seen by two detectives going towards Stuart street, and they noticed there was something protruding under his coat. They followed, and intercepted him, and .founds iioiit wooden sticker ivjiis pisses sion.vshere ■had bebh''consi|fer‘ahlo some of those who were inciting! the unemployed to resist any police action, and evidently that was the reason why Dore carried the stick, which was rather a formidable baton. The defendant was a married man with threo children, and seemed to lose his head in any excitement. He had a bad list.: Dore said he had picked up the stick in town that morning, and was on. his way home when the detectives stopped him. He intended using it for an axe handle.

The, Magistrate: He did not actually, use the .weapon? Sub-inspector Cameron: No, sir, but we know that some of the unemployed are carrying weapons to resist arrest. Core was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment.