THE FEILDING ASSAULT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1792, 21 February 1918, Page 3

THE FEILDING ASSAULT.

♦ TWO MEN ARRESTED,

A development in the Howard Elliott assault case at Feilding of last week took place yesterday, when two men who had been arrested by the police at 7 o’clock on the previous evening were placed in the dock.

Rupert McKee, employed at the local freezing works, a young man of 19 years, recently come from the Petone district, was charged with assaulting Edwin Leslie Wain, Salvation Army officer, on the night of the 13th inst.

Sergeant Cahill explained the circumstances of the alleged assault, and asked for a remand till next AA r ednesday, He asked that substantial bail be fixed.

Mr Ongley said he had been asked by Mr Cooper, who was appearing for the accused, to apply for a reasonable bail.

The remand was granted, bail being fixed at £SO, with one surety of £SO.

Michael Rowan, a married man, aged 32 years, also employed at the freezing works, was charged with assaulting George Frederick Stockwell, Methodist minister, causing him actual bodilv harm.

Sergeant Cahill pointed out that this charge was a more serious one than in the previous case. The Magistrates granted a remand till next AA r ednesday, bail being fixed at £SO, with one surety of £SO.

The bail was forthcoming in each case.

AA T ellington, Feb. 18. The Public Questions Committee of the AA’ellington Presbytery passed the following resolution: “That this Committee hereby express their profound sympathy with the Rev. T. Miller and the Rev. G. Stockwell in the indignity and bodily injury to which they have been subjected at the hands of a brutal mob. They also express their alarm and indignation at the manifest intention ‘of certain bigots to suppress, if they can by insensate violence, not only the freedom of speech, but even attendance at public meetings held to claim for Protestants their full political rights. They further express their satisfaction that the Minister for Justice has promised to do his utmost to discover and bring to punishment the perpetrators of the Feilding outrage, and their determination to uphold in all legitimate ways the right of Protestant people to assemble in public meetings, for the vindication of their political liberties, and the exposure of the wiles by which these liberties arc endangered.”