ALLEGED LIBEL,

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18618, 22 April 1932, Page 7

ALLEGED LIBEL,

STATEMENT IN NEWSPAPER. SEQUEL TO DEMONSTRATION. i ~ n ' AUCKLAND, Friday?" A sequel to a demonstration of unemployed in the grounds of Parliament was heard in the Police Court yesterday, when proceedings were taken against George Rudd, aged 35, seaman, and Ernest Frederick Thompson, agent, in connection with alleged defamatory libel of a police inspector. Budd and Thompson were jointly charged with publishing a defamatory libol of, and concerning John Lander, an inspector of police, in a certain newspaper called War, as follows: “ Inspector Lander, commanding the force which batoned the workers on Ihe steps of Parliament House, lied and perjured himself when he staled, during the Court proceedings, that he was not armed. He lied, as his masters, the capitalist class, lie in their propaganda war against the workers. Call for the resignation of Inspector Lander, perjuring liar and attacker of defenceless men, women and children.” The alleged offence is slated by tho police to have been committed on October 4, .1931, the paragraph complained of being published in leaflets, which, it Is alleged, were mimeographed by Rudd and distributed to the public by Thompson at a meeting of unemployed and others in an Auckland theatre. The hearing was adjourned until May 12.