DISORDER AT WELLINGTON

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 21 May 1932, Page 5

DISORDER AT WELLINGTON

FURTHER CHARGES HEARD TWO CASES DISMISSED (By TeJegiaph —I‘resa Association.) WELLINGTON, May 20. Further charges arising out of the window-smashing incidents on May 10 were preferred in the/ Police Court this afternoon before Mr E. Page, S.M. Decision was reserved in one case and two others were dismissed on the ground that identity had not been definitely proved. One man admitted being in possession of a tin of pepper, but maintained that he was carrying this purely as. a defensive weapon. This was the case that the magistrate deferred for consideration.

Norman Heidenstron, a drain-layer aged 0(>. was accpiitted of a charge of having broken the windows of W- H. Lloyd, jeweller in Lambtou Quay. The magistrate held that the police had not established the identification. William George Lovatt, a seaman aged 20, charged with breaking the windows of the premises of David Dalton and Celine Rodgers, was also given the benefit of the doubt. Charles Maurice Brooks, a labourer aged J(>, was remanded until Wednesday next in order to allow the magistrate, to consider the evidence proffered on the charge that he was armed with an offensive weapon, with felonious intent. The weapon consisted of a tin of popper which Brooks said he carried as a defensive and not an offensive weapon against special, constables.