CROWD IN A FRENZY

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3742, 10 June 1932, Page 5

CROWD IN A FRENZY

SEQUEL TO A R 1 OT COMA! UNI STS CHARGED CASE AGAINST EDWARDS TRIAL IN POLICE COURT fFw Ureas Association}. Auckland, June 0. Jame s Edwards, 40 a canvasser and a loading Couiniu-nist, appeared in the Police Court on. charges ol inciting lawlessness on -April 14 and of participating in a, riot. Tile Crown Prosecutor conducted the case, and Edwardg was represented by a prominent barrister. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., rejected an application that the first charge, which is a. summary one, should be deferred until Edwards had been tried in the Supreme Court on tlie other. Evidence was given that when part of the procession reached the Town Hall Edwards was seen in possession of a niegaffhone and heard to say: “Got round, them, boys, and take their batons off them.'’ -A ins], was then made against the police. Another constable said that Edwards. in addressing the crowd to take the batons front the police, added: “They have shown as violence, so we will clash.' 1 That was a,s far as lie got before ho was struck down by a police baton.' Evidence on similar lines was given by other policemen. Constable Allen .said that Edwards had previously hcen speaking from the balustrade O? the Town liali. working the crowd into a frenzy.