BAIL REFUSED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 8

BAIL REFUSED

NELSON LODGED IN GAOL TO BE SENTENCED TO-MORROW (United Pres* Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ■ ■ f •• v In his interim judgment in the Nelao* case,; Judge Luxford said’: “The procedure has been unusual on account of the politics involved.” He added that he proposed to comment on that point in hi* final judgment on March 7. He convicted Nelson on the second, third, and sixth of the eight charges before the court. He quoted extensive extracts,from the evidence of Man witnesses, beside* documentary matter, and said the clearest evidence established that Nelsort was a Mau adviser, and Apia agent and correspondent of' the '•Guardian' -neWrapaper, published by the defendant with Mau money. The authorship of the reports, letters, messages, and instruction* seized was undoubtedly Nelson’s, though be pleaded innocence/of guilty intention, particularly regarding his presence at unlawful assemblies of a seditious organisation held in September. On account 'of the serious' nature of the charges pud the disclosures further bail would be refused. f .■{ Nelson was transferred to .Vaimet prison, .faurauina .exhorted. the many Mau onlookers;.to keep tiic peaceand disperse from the vicinity of the court.

Olaf Frederick .Nelson', wa* charged with breaches of the, Samoan Sedition* Organisations Regulation*. •..