AUCKLAND RIOTS
PARTICIPATION IN COURT.
14 COMMITTED FOR TRIAL,
i By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
AUCKLAND, April 30. Fourteen men were to-day committed for trial on charges of participating in the riot on April 14. In all sixty-three witnesses were heard, including most of the police force.
The accused reserved their defence. Two asked for bail, . which was fixed at £SOO.
Charges of throwing missies in Karangahape Road on the evening of April 15, and inciting lawlessness were preferred against Arthur Francis Sturt, a bushman and a native of England, aged 35 years. A constable said that he saw Sturt throw a beer bottle at a mounted Territorial, and the accused was in the act of throwing a second bottle when he noticed that he was detected bv witness.
Mr Hunt. S.M. in dismissing the charges, said that the accused had a good record, and there wa5,.,..a150 the&p fact that the constable had been eight" yards from lrs in a prees of people.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1932, Page 5
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