NEW GUARD LEADER
SERVED WITH SUMMONS TO APPEAR IN COURT TO-DAY. SYDNEY, January 14. Detectives visited Colonel Campbell’s home and served the summons charging him with having used insulting language in a speech. The action was taken under section 8a of the Vagrancy Act, 1902, which legislates against dangerous and riotous statements. Colonel Campbell will appear in court to-morrow. The maximum fine for the offence, providing the charge is proved, is £5, and the person may in addition he hound over to be of good behaviour for 12 months, or failing such a bond being entered into, the person may be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. This sudden action is the culmination of the Government's attention to Colonel Campbell’s speeches. Ministers conferred during the last two days with the Crown law officers and police officials. Interviewed after the summons had been served, the leader of the New Guard said: “I am just amused. My defence will bring some facts before the public that should be highly amusing.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21543, 15 January 1932, Page 7
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