WELLINGTON RIOTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18639, 18 May 1932, Page 8

WELLINGTON RIOTS.

CULPRITS DEALT WITH. THE LIST COMPLETED. COMMENTS BY THE MAGISTRATE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Eight men were convicted by Mr Page, S.M. to-day of Inciting to lawlessness on either Tuesday or Wednesday of last week and each was ordered to "come up for sentence If called upon within twelve months, conditional on entering within seven days into a bond with a surety of £SO to "be of good behaviour. They were: Patrick Dolan, alias Michael Dermody (46), labourer; Bernard Charles Whitlow (29), labourer; Gustavus Harold Kitchener Isaacs (18), presser; William Victor Guilford Hargreaves (21) labourer; Frank Parker (24), labourer; Reginald Patrick Johnston (30), steward; Thomas Martin KilKeily (22), labourer; Bertram Charles Ross (54), cook. In the case of William Reilly (38), carpenter, who was sentenced on Saturday to" a month’s imprisonment, a rehearing was granted, and the case was brought into line with the others and a similar sentence imposed. . The magistrate said the quention of penalty had given him much anxious consideration. The cases differed essentially from those In which shop windows were wantonly smashed and goods looted. Though there could be no denying the seriousness of the charge of inciting to lawless he thought it probable that defendants were carried away by the prevailing excitement and that they did not realise the danger of another conflagration being started. Their conduct was thoughtless rather than calculated or vicious; he therefore had come to the conclusion that imprisonment should not be imposed. The charge against Marius Petersen (44), labourer, of wilfully breaking a window was dismissed, owing to doubt. Harry Clarence Berney (31), storeman, was sentenced to six months for theft of jewellery. A charge against Georgo Stanley Pegley (33), labourer, who had elected to be tried by pury was dismissed owing to' doubt of Intent. William James Baker (35), fireman, who was sentenced to two months on Saturday for the theft of a glass mug, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on charges of using indecent language, and being a rogue and a vagabond, in that he was found armed with a baton and stone with felonious intent.

This ends the hearing of the riot cases.