"BOUND OYER."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1926, 8 December 1913, Page 8

"BOUND OYER."

WHAT IS MEANT BY "KEEPING THE PEACE." Mr. W. T. Young, secretary- of the local Seamen's Union, pending the hearing of tho appeal against tho judgment of Mr. W. G. Riddell, 5.M. (who sentenced him to threo months' imprisonment for using language calculated to incite a riot, and convicted him on a charge of sedition) has been bound over to keep the poaco in two sureties of £250 each. Tho latter (Dr. Mackenzie and Dr. Mackin) havo been accepted by tho Court. What "keeping tho peace" means precisely in a caso of this sort was inquired into by a Dominion' reporter on Saturday. Tho person bound over to keep tho peace would not be debarred from speaking in public, but should he, in the course of liis remarks, say anything likely to provoke oi\ lead to a breach of tho peace, and the snmo be proven to iho satisfaction of the Court, the sureties would in all likelihood be cxtreated, and probably tho offender would bo resentenced.. .The offence, it is stated, would be just as great if it wero committed boforo n. privato meeting of workers, though in such a case it might bo difficult to securo proof strong enough to support a charge. It is understood that a. sharp look-out is to he kept by the nolice on all persons likely to use words calculated to ptovoifo In breach of the neaqe during tile present industrial trouble.