GERMAN POLICE OFFICER PUNISHED

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19238, 27 November 1930, Page 1

GERMAN POLICE OFFICER PUNISHED

SEQUEL TO MAY DAY RIOTS LAST YEAR. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, November 25. In connection with the May Day riots last year when forty civilians, including a New Zealand journalist, Mr C. E. Mackay, of Wanganui, were killed by the police, two police officers and a sergeant were charged with gross illtreatment. The sergeant was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, and the officers were acquitted. Evidence was given that the police completely lost their heads and brutally truncheoned citizens while their officers looked on passively. Mr Charles E. Mackay, a Wanganui man, was killed during the May Day riots in Berlin in 1929. Mr Mackay, who was assistant correspondent of the “Sunday Express” in Berlin, was sent to the Neukoelln district with Instructions to ascertain from the police whether the rioting was continuing* What actually happened has never been cleared up, but apparently Mr Mackay wandered into the danger zone, where he was found with a bullet wound in his chest. He died on the way to the hospital. The police were entrenched behind barricades, and were firing down the street. Apparently one of their bullets killed him