The Strike Riots

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6136, 11 February 1914, Page 1

The Strike Riots

FOUB MEN SENT TO PRISON. WELLINGTON, Febsuary 4. A number of prisoners who had been found guilty of charges arising out of the strike riots were sentenced by the Chief justice to-day. His Honour said the rioting was very peculiar, and was of a serious character; in fact, he knew of no riot of such serious character haviujj taken place in New Zealand. Max tVitfge, for assuult uud oLwcene language, was sentenced to 1:2 m o nUis' imprisonment; Albert Anderson, ior taking part in an unlawful ossein! ly, to 20 months; Walter Burton, for taking part in a riot, to eight mouths ; and John Troy, for assault and causing bodily harm, to four- months. Robert Hill henied iparticiuating in a rioiti in T a ranaki street on November '4, when a row occurred during] whichi the Royal Tiger Hotel was considerably knocked about. The jury disagreed, and a new trial was ordered. Robert James Christopher Seal pleaded not guilty to a charge of destroying the wharf barricade on October 24. The jury found him guilty, with a recommendation that it be taken into consideration that the accused had been two months in gaol.