SEDITIOUS LITERATURE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3544, 4 August 1920, Page 3

SEDITIOUS LITERATURE.

The hearing of the case 0%" 'l-larry P. 8111-goss, the New ex-Service man charged with spreading dis-.Lffeetioll among the Irish Guards, was concluded at Bow Street llnolice Courf on Satul'd"zly, M:l_v 22, Accused is the nmnager of the ‘Work- } 01's’ Dre:ldnoug‘ht. " Private Joseph Bl'ndy,. of the Irish 'Gual'ds, gave evidence of meeting the iacc.u.<ed- in a publichouse, of having dinner at :‘.ccnseds" house_. and of after‘ wards receiving from hini copies of the ‘‘Workers’ Dreadnought” and leaflets. He and others who had been with him concocted a reply thanking‘ accused for money and 1331-6915 they} had received from him, and almost by I‘etul'n of post they had {‘.nother parcel of “Dreadnoughts” and 3 10/ "Om With the a(tcused he met. Miss .3ylV;a Pankhurst. They talked about guns and other matters,- but Miss P'lnl\lurst did not seem to approve of guns. and said she had better sound the I)(\0I)]Q in the South before going into the question of guns. Witness got. further nioiioy from the defendant, making £5 :1itop;o:}1e1'.

L Private Henry Wifiamson gave corroborative eVid€llC€‘Mr Thompson, for the defence. said i]l(’l'E’ was nothing in iho'panlp}:iet to which the Crown I'epl'osolltat'.vn could point his finger and say “This in seditious." He de<_-lal-ed that the D O.R.A. Regulati.n was being used for the suppression of political opinion obnoxious to the Govermnent, xvheroas the power was given them for the purpose of fighting an external enemy.

Sir. C. Biron sentenced and amused to pnson for s;x months without hard labour.

S‘_vmp:xf}aisP2‘.~? at who back nf ithe (‘mu-1‘ conml(‘:l(:L‘d to cheer. A woman gz:.llod.m_lf. “Courago. comrade," and mlofher uric-d_. “Di<3latlor.ehip of the I‘rolet:u'iat. ” ' The Court was quickly cleared.