CHARGE OF TREASON
MALONE GETS SIX MONTHS. [ACBTKAUAN & N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION I (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 19. The hearing of a charge of treason against Colonel Lestrange Malone was resumed. The prosecution stated during the search of Malone’s house two loaded automatic pistols were found. The prosecution read a circular produced from defendants type writer purporting to lay down the rules and regulations for a British revolution. Counsel added that he would not say Malone was the author ) but that lie was closely connected with the circular.
Malone’s counsel claimed there was no intention to break the law or commit a criminal act. When Malone went to Russia he was so appalled by what he saw, that he believed the world’s only hope of salvation was in communism, and the destruction of capitalism. There was nothing in his Albert Hall speech likely to cause sedition among civilisation. Defendant felt he had nothing to withdraw or apologise for. Malone was sentenced to six months in the second division. Notice of appeal was given.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1920, Page 3
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