THE O’DWYER CASE
JUDGE McCARDIE ’S STATEMENTS. THE GOVERNMENT’S DECISION, LONDON, Juno 23. In the House of Commons, Mr. Lansbury asked if the Government would grant time for a discussion on his motion asking for the removal of Mr. Justice McCardie from the Bench in connection with his summing up of the O’Dwyer case. The Hon. Ramsay MacDonald said the Government had come to the decision that a discussion on the subject would only add' to the harm done in India by the words complained of. Spuming up in the O’Dwyer case, Judge McCardie expressed the view that O’Dwyer had been wrongly punished by the Secretary for India. He said that if the jury found that O’Dwyer had committed an* atrocity they would have found him responsible, therefore, before the defendant’s plea for justification prevailed, he asked the jury what would have been the result if O’Dwyer’s force had been wiped out and the rebellion had led to an insurrection and then to civil war, which was a terrible thing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19046, 25 June 1924, Page 11
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