ALLEGEDLY CARRIED BATON
WELLINGTON CHARGE FAILS.
ECHO OF DEMONSTRATION.
By Telegraph.—Press Association,
Wellington. Last Night. John Lightfoot in the Supreme Court to-day was found not guilty on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond in that he had been armed with an offensive weapon with felonious intent. The circumstances were that on December J last, there was an attempted organised demonstration of unemployed men at Parliament Buildings, The movement was stopped by the police. Lightfoot was taken to the central police station and the police alleged that he threw away a baton with pieces of string fixed to it in the same way as a leather Strap is fixed to a police baton. Counsel for the defence submitted that the evidence had not proved that 'Lightfoot had been in possession of the baton, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.. .. ’”
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1933, Page 6
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