Tried Publication Of Subversive Document
[Per Press Association.—Copyright] WELLINGTON, This Day.
After a retirement of 20 minutes a Supreme Coiu’t jury yesterday found Arthur Herbert Carman, aged 38, bookseller, guilty of attempting to publish a subversive document, but not guilty of .attempting to conduct a meeting prohibited under the Public Safety Emergency Regulations. The prisoner, who was remanded for sentence, posted eight copies of a leaflet entitled “Defend Peace and Freedom at Home,” written by the secretary of the Christian Pacifist Society, to residents of Johnsonville. Verdicts of guilty were returned against John Henderson Woodley, aged 21, scho.olteacher, and David William Silvester, aged 28, clerk, on charges of attempting to conduct a prohibited meeting. In remanding them for sentence until today, the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) intimated that there was a possibility of the sentences hot being pronounced.
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Northern Advocate, 9 May 1941, Page 3
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