Higgins In Auckland

NZ Truth, Issue 936, 3 November 1923, Page 5

Higgins In Auckland

BEFORE THE COURT AND REMANDED, Thero was t\ great ruah of the Idle t to tho Auckluml Pol Sco Court ott Sat } urday last, when John HigginH th« wrecker .of tho Wniklno Bchool massapro, wuh placed In tho dock ©n remand from 1 Wnlhl, churgod with tho murder of Kolvyn Morris McLean nnrt Charles Alton Stownrt. Hlggins was 1 handcuffed behind* nnd a burly con? I atnblo stood behind him In tho dock I Senlor-Sorgeant Kawle asked for a remand for ono week, when Lawyer Sullivan HtHtod that ho appeared for tho accused. Higgins was attlrid In a dark suit without a tic. After one'look around tho Court ho turnod and regarded the Magistrate calmly. His noae •till l bore signs of the strugßlo that enaued on his arrest. When the Magistrate granted tho remand tho constable tapped Hlk> gins on tho shoulder and piloted him into tho prisoners' room, where a crowd of omcor* nulckly cloned up the tcup of tho door nrul h;d him from view. Ho was rapidly transferred to tho prison van. watched hungrily by the crowd. Tho van made Its exit as noon as he left the Court, and wan then dHven to Mount Edc- C^il *