THE STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 277, 20 November 1913, Page 7

THE STRIKE.

YOUNG WOMAN INJURED. KNOCKED DOWN IN THE RUSE. WITEN CHARGED BY MOUNTED SPECIALS. A s?riou" consequence of the melee ,n which the rc-onrrted specials figured orommently. Tiear t ; he Trades Hall yeeU'Tday afternoon, an injury sustained by 3. young married woman, a Mrs Puller, -who rrskirp in IMontague Street. Newum. I; is iindrretood "Jia/t. .-he "was returning to bT '' ,_ Tne from the city when ehe sicijipmi in '-'lie crowd opposite the Trades Hill l*> oN-ervp what w.ifi iiarrpening. While eh» was standing on the iootpa-tii the leader of a parry of epeciafe. an elderly man, commenced cantering ibis horse aln'U".- in front of the foremost portion of 'hi- crowd ::i order l-o force ii~!n baric 'O : :e fooip.it-h. -and to compc! them to keep '^moving , on."' li was at This et-age that i"ne leader pEed bis baton, and in The FtaTrrpede that f.iilo-wnd. -on" T>f The male podpstrians. wail" rushir»r hack to the footpa.!:, - i* alleged to nave accidentally knocked Mrs Puller down and kicked W a-nkle. The latter was picked up by bypi»nd?rt=. atnOTig "lVji being ti few more or !•■-.* hysterical wcimen. and Traced in x taxi-cab 10 be driven to -her home, fin th" Ti'sv a i-top wss inad-p t-o have •'if young woman erarrrined by Dr. P. S. Rpraardi. 3* -J repiiit of ■α-hich the was takfTi directly to the Auckland Hospital. Th!s morning the injured leg war* siibTnrt:e<i t'i y.-r-iy treatment, and it. -.vas found tlraf it. was broken just above the nklr.