AUCKLAND RIOTS

Grey River Argus, 29 April 1932, Page 5

AUCKLAND RIOTS

GAOL SENTENCES On Many Men (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, April 28. The Police Court was crowded to the doors this morning, when nearly 50 men were charged with various offences, arising out of the rioting and looting. Many of those men had been remanded in custody. The hearing of the charges is expected to take two days. SEAMEN’S ADMISSION. Three seamen, Harry Pasquill, aged 31; Patrick Gallagher, aged 39, Michael O’Hara, aged 28, admitted inciting lawlessness when the riot was at its height, and were sentenced to three months in gaol. Counsel asked the Magistrate to antedate the sentences, as the men had been waiting in gaol. i The Magistrate: No; I only wish I could post-date it. COMMUNIST’S CASE. I Oswald Bourbeau, aged 51, convicted !of assaulting a constable, was sen- . tenced to three months. He said that he was one of the founders of tho Communist Party, but he had resigned last December, owing to a disagreement over the tactics. He would not deny telling an audience on March 27, that they must fight to overthrow capitalism, with all weapons, constitutional and otherwise. A SEVERE SENTENCE. | Reginald Morton, aged 27, electriI cian, married, with five children, was I found with a string of beads, which he said he picked up. Magistrate Hunt said that if he were innocent, it was his duty to return the beads. The sentence was three months’ imprisonment. A LOOTED WATCH. HAMILTON, April 28. An echo of the Auckland riot was heard at the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court to-day when Thomas Frederick Perry, aged 39, was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for receiving ■ stolen goods. Accused was being es--1 corted to the police* station on a drunkenness charge, when he dropped a match-box containing a wristlet watch. Accused subsequently admitted that the watch was obtained by looting in the Auckland riots. He refused to divulge the name of the person who gave him the watch. The Magistrate commented that he would have made the sentence less, had accused not shown a disposition to shield others.

Fifteen Men Charged WITH TAKING PART IN RIOT. AUCKLAND, April 28. In connection with the riot cases, action by the Crown officially to establish the occurrence of the riot in Queen Street on the evening of April 14th was commenced in the Police Court this afternoon, before Mr Hunt, S.M. Fifteen men were charged with taking part in a riot with James Henry Edwards and other persons, the hearing being adjourned. The men charged were: George Joseph Silver, labourer, aged 32; George Devereaux, labourer, aged 38; Oswald Bourbeau, waterside worker, aged 51; John Sharpe, miner, aged 36; Edmund Henry Eayeres, builder, aged 30; Simoon Elari, labourer, aged 21; Leo Martinovich. labourer; Harold Robertson, labourer, aged 19; John Hubert Edwards, salesman; Clifford John Dudson, labourer; James William Rae Simpson, labourer, aged 32; Mate Dragovich. labourer, aged 33; John William McCorkindale, miner, aged 37; William John Budd, seaman, aged 35; and Albert William Searles, seaman, aged 26.