THREE MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT
( OBSTRUCTING THE POLICE MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN PACIFIST SOCIETY Wellington, This Day. can t understand why something is no done to put you people away for tht duration of the war,” said the Magistrate, Mr Stout, to James Doherty • 32) a carpenter, when sentencing him to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour for obstructing the police. The charge, to which Doherty pleaded not guilty, arose from his addressing some people at a street corner as a member of the Christian Pacifist Society. “You say you are going to do this every time you get out of gaol,” said , the Magistrate. “There ought to be ;some place they can put you in to prevent you creating trouble that is likely to arise from these speeches, especially at the present tinu when so many people have lost relatives and so many others are going overseas to fight for our very life.’ P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 28 October 1941, Page 6
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