DISLOYAL UTTERANCES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3167, 18 August 1917, Page 6

DISLOYAL UTTERANCES

FOREIGNER IMPRISONED,

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M., Christian Frederick Edmund Anderson, a foreigner, was charged with making use of disloyal utterances. He pleaded not guilty. Anderson, who is a canvasser for soaps, called at Lindsay's, Ltd,, boot factory, Woodward Street, ami in -the-.course ot conversation eaid:-"The German people are higher morally than you. if it should 'take a hundred years the German Umpire will be established here. ihey would never have done what they nave if they had not received provocation. Evidence was given by the foreman and employees of the factory that an employee made the remark when Anderson was present that the Kaiser had been secured and was being placed on the island,. meaning Somes Island. Accused thereupon niade use of the utterance with which he was charged, and was promptly lurried out of the' premises. He came back later and made a statement that he was too clever for the police to be "Defendant said he was 62 years of age He had lived 38 years in Australasia, and claimed to be as loyal towards Great Britain as any other man. Uα the day that he was alleged to have used the disloyal utterances he was cold and had taken a stimulant which had the effect of clouding bis brain. Ik* man he was joking with was.also up u rears, and if one. was not allowed to have a joke life would- not be worth Dew said tlmf accused had been "treated leniently. He was.considered to be of German, birth, and insteadof being placed.on'the island was flowed hie freedom on the .understanding that he reported himself to the police a, Dane. I do not know what I sentenced to a month's imprisonment.