STREET DISORDERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 8

STREET DISORDERS

WELLINGTON CLASHES SIX MORE CASES HEARD ONE MAN SENT TO GAOL WELLINGTON, May 20. Six further cases arising out of the disorder in the city on 10th and 11th May are being heard by Mr. E. Page, S.M.. to-day. The excuse that the aecr ' ad be cor annoyed t being stopped three times by special consff'h’os an-' had remonstrated with them was advanced by counsel on behalf of Ernest Walter Dudley, a plumber, aged 32, who pleaded guilty to inciting lawlessness. Sub-Inspector Ward said that on Wednesday night. May 11, a company of specials was at the cornci of Marion and Ghuznee strec+s. The accused was in the crowd, and started to make a speech, and then called out to the specials: “You don’t know what von are dor g, you dirtv lot of scabs. Y :i don’t know what you are doing.” The accused ffroni the dock): “That’s wrong. I didn’t say that.” When the accused '-as arrested, the Sub-I r ’=noefor went on, he ..as in a vc bad temper and as a result of his conduct it looked as if there would be further trouble. Counsel said ’ ’ the accused was a plumber on his own account, and had had nothing whatever to do with the demonstrations in the city. On t’ e Wednesday night ho was trying to get to his home in Brooklyn, but ir. coming across the city he was and deflected from his course three •’mes by specials. On the last occasion the accused became impatient and remon?trat A d with the specials, V* he denied using the words: “You dirt lot o r scabs, ” Mr. Page said he would deal w?h Dudley in the same way as.he " with others charged With similar offences. The accused was bonvicted and ordered to come up for if called upon within twelve months, on condition that within s«* cn days he enters into a bond of £5O, with a surety of £5O to be of good behaviour during t v -♦ period. Three Months’ Gaol. “This seems to me to be a deliberate act on the part of the defendant designed to incite lawlessness on the part af the crowd and induce them to rush Parliament House gates.” said the magistrate when sentencing George Alexander Robert Irving, aged 32. to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of inciting lawlessness. Irving, said Ward, 'limbed up a tree outside the Parlianent House gates while the crowd was .railing outside on the Tuesday afternoon. He veiled and screeched p -r seme time until he had attracted attention and then said: “We are not r«»ing to stand for this sort of thing. We’ll give thpm another five minutes, then over the ton we go.” Shortly after these remarks a section of the crowd tried to force the gates, and missiles such as sticks, stones, and an i on bar were thrown at the police. The if cased had been before the Court on a number of occasions for criminal offences, dating back to 1920.

To Help a Friend. A fine of £3, in default seven days’ imprisonment, 'was imposed on Frederick Alexander Corby, a seaman, aged 28, who pleaded not guilty to obstructing Constable Rush while in the lawful execution of his duty. The evidence was that while Constables Burk' and Rush were arresting a man named Blanny in Willis Street <on the Tuesday night, Corby, who had been drinking with Blaney, ha- short scuffle with Constable P.. h. “Brawls of this nature or interference of this sort under the conditions pertaining on the 10th are very serious things,” SubInspector Ward said. Counsel said it was obvious that neither the accused nor Blaney had had anything to do wi'.h the rioting. They had come out of a hotel at 6 o’clock and were walking down the street, when Blaney was arrested. Corby went to inquire what his companion was being arrested for, and the scuffle followed. Corby came from an axcellent family, and he had an unblemished record. When the Tahiti and Greycliffe collided in the Sydney Harbour some years ago the accused was a member of the crew of the Tahiti, and he was only man on the ship who went over the side. He wa instrumental in saving a number of lives, and for this he was awarded ■ die Royal Humane Society’s medal, and was also presented with a purse from the passengers on the Tahiti. Tin of Pepper Found. Charles Maurice Brooks, a labourer, aged 36, pleaded -not guilty to being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found armed with a tin of pepper with a felonious intent. Constable McPhee said that last Thursday night he arrested the »reused on another charge and the of pepper was found when the accused was searched. Asked what he had the pepicr for, Brooks said: “On the night >efore last some of the specials were in a roof opposite our hall. They .brew bottles and bricks through the window. We hon’d they were going to raid the hall, so I got the pepper and took it down to Me office. Asked if he wag going to throw the pepper at the specials the accused replied that he was not going to stand by and be knocked about. He said’the bottle an' the brick had not broken :ho window because it was up a bit. Brooks, who admitted he was a mem I) r of the Communist Party, said that ho had brought the pepper to the Communist Hall in Farrish Street but had only stayed there for a few minutes. He said the party had been threatened and he personally had been breatened. and he carried the ** p r purely for self-defence. The magistrate reserved his decision.