CHARGE AGAINST EDWARDS
SEQUEL TO AUCKLAND EJOT JURY FAILS TO AGREE. Auckland, July 29. The jury, after a four hours’ retirement, failed to agree in the case in which James Henry Edwards was charged with taking part in the riot on April 14. A new trial was ordered. Summing up, His Honour pointed out that the most dangerous type in the community might not be a man who was openly violent, but a man who was fluent with his tongue and perhaps saturated with undesirable literature and who influenced his fellows to take part in such proceedings as those of April 14. There was ample evidence that Edwards was associated with the procession that night, and ample evidence that the rioting was not a sudden explosion but premeditated. In such circumstances as arose the police were fully justified in using their batons, and if Edwards did, as be said he did, urge these people to take the batons from the police “and use no violence” then he was undoubtedly encouraging the riot. What right had he, when Hie police were discharging their duty, to encourage his men to seize their batons ?
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 193, 30 July 1932, Page 8
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