RIOT AFTERMATH

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 125, 21 May 1932, Page 5

RIOT AFTERMATH

THREE MORE CONVICTIONS BY WELLINGTON MAGISTRATE (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Three more men were convicted in the Police Court to-day by Mr E. Page, S.M., on charges arising out of the window-smashing incidents on Tuesday, May 10. Decision -was reserved in one case, and two others were dismissed on tho ground that their identity had not been definitely proved. One man admitted being in possession of a tin of pepper, but maintained that he was carrying this purely as a defensive weapon. This was the case tho Magistrate deferred for consideration.

The offences proved were of a very serious nature, and ptrnaities were more lenient than in the earlier eases.

JNbrman a drainlaycr, aged 36, was acquitted of a ch&ruo of having broken the windows of W. H. Lloyd, a jeweller, in Lambton Quay, the Magistrate holding that the police had not established identification. William George Lovatt, a seaman, aged 26, charged with breaking the windows of the premises of David Dalton and Celine Rodgers, was also given the benefit of the doubt.

Charles Maurice Brooks, a labourer, aged 36, was remanded until Wednesday next in order to allow the Magistrate to consider the evidence proffered in a charge that he was armed, with an offensive weapon with a felonious intent. The weapon consisted of a tin of pepper which the accused said he carried as a defensive and not as an offensive weapon against special constables.