A TEMPERANCE MARTYR.
RELEASED FROM PRISOX.
By Telegraph- -Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. When William RiehaTdson, the wellknown temperance advocate, was recent- • ly before tlie Court on a charge of break- . ing the by-laws by causing an assemblage f. to gather which was large enough to ob- ■- struct the footpath, he protested ttarft ■•, the charge amounted to persecution, and that as the rteht of free speech was iu- ,3 volved ho would serve imprisonment r»c & titer .than pay the, fine imposed. Y»„ v| terday tho time had expired for meut, ami Mr. Richardson was and taken" to Mt. Eden Gaol to «"<-Jve •&•.% alternative of seven days. Mr. son was unexpectedly released to-day, a*;."'it 1 tlie result of his friends subscribing *k» '},<■ amount of his line and making tihe neoefl-., | sany payment. . ! :j Speaking to a Star reporter this morn* ',B ing, ho said he would have preferred 4© ; & have spent the full time, in gaol rather f.« tlian that the penalty should have beett-,,1 P aW - ' . .-I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 20, 11 June 1914, Page 5
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167A TEMPERANCE MARTYR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 20, 11 June 1914, Page 5
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