JURIES INTIMATED

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6

JURIES INTIMATED

MR COSGRAVE’S ANXIETY. (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON. March 4. President Cosgrave in a speech at Dublin declared there was a revival of gunmen’s activity, and that it threatened the whole social fabric. It was a deliberate conspiracy to defeat and ends of justice, lie said and conspirators failing by threats to intimidate jurors and witnesses, now resorted to murder. “The position now is” he declared “that there exists in Dublin a body of criminals intent, on murdering citizens exercising the rights of citzenship. If this conspiracy is not crushed, we will be faced with a most serious problem.” “’The Times’’ rep/orts: At Dublin intimidation of. juries lias been brought to a fine art whenever a political prisoner is on trial. A mysterious organisation. known as the “Ghosts” warns tlie jury by circular not to find the prisoner guilty. Little attention has been paid to such warnings till the ‘ «hosts” later by circular made no secret of the fact that they were responsible, for seriously wounding a juror named White, because lie was a member of a jury which —found a certain political. .prisoner guilty. - Short ly afterwards' 'Armstrong - was similarly murdered. Nobody was arrested as tlie "result of cither attack. Meanwhile juries continue to, be served with warnings, creating a serious situation.