BLACK SHIRTS
PROSECUTIONS IN LONDON SIR OSWALD MOSLEY AKD ASSOCIATES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 15. (Received November 16, at 10.40 a.m.Vj Sir Oswald Mosley and three Black Shirts, including William Joyce (director of Fascist propaganda) and. Captain Budd (West Sussex district! officer) ,■ were committed for trial on charges of riotous assembly arising from- a Fascist meeting at Worthing on October 9. Yesterday an assault charge against Sir Oswald Mosley, arising from the same affair, was dismissed. All pleaded not guilty. There were seventy witnesses. The case occupied five days. For the prosecution it was alleged that the Black Shirts, under, the leadership of the defendants,; brutally attacked the crowd, which hooted and cheered when they departed from the pavilion'in which Sir. Oswald Mosley addressed his supporters. Sir- Oswald Mosley, giving evident* in the assault case, aroused a strong protest when, he said the prosecution was the result of political influence and false police evidence.
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Evening Star, Issue 21879, 16 November 1934, Page 10
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