SEDITION CASES.
TELEGRAMS
CONVICTION S RECORDED.
(Per Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, July 24.
At the Police Court to-day, Thomas Padraic Cummins and Albert James O’Ryan, were convicted on a charge of publishing in a monthly publication called “The Green Ray” a seditious utterance, with intent to incite disaffection against the Government ol tlie United Kingdom, and to encourage commission in the United Kingdom of an offence prejudicial to the public safety, in respect of the present war, to wit, “crime of treason,” by levying war against His Majesty, contrary to the War Regulations. Each was sentenced to eleven months’ hard labour. In reply to accused’s counsel, Mr. Lolan, of Napier, the Magistrate said be was prepared that ho should state the rase for appeal.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1918, Page 2
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