HAINING STREET WINDOWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 6

HAINING STREET WINDOWS.

Sir,—l noticed in your issue of August U that, in answer to a reporter of your paper with respect to. tho recent Sunday night street disturbances by the antimilitarist party, Sergeant Rutledgo is reported as , having stated that "Nothing of the sort, occurred either to-night or last. Sunday. I went through .Haining Street myself with tho crowd last Sunday night. Thoro was not a pane of glass broken, nor any damage done to property at all. They did not go through llaining Street to-night. There is not a word of truth in tho rumour." Hay I, without prejudicing Sergeant Itutlcdge in any way, as these cases wero not, at the time ho made- those statements, reported to him, be permitted _ to correct tho above statements by giving the following facts?— Sunday, August (J: One pane of glass broken at No. 8 Hnining Street, ono pane at No. 53, and two panes at No. 28. - Sunday, August 13: Two panes broken at No. .i, two panes at No. 22, ono pane each at Nos. 3 and 30. Besides the above damage, Mi\ Saul Sing, while standing in Haining Street when the Socialists passed, was linenpectedly- pushed down and had one of his fingers broken. When ho reported the waiter to -a -policeman' the. latter took him to 'a "doctor;' who''charged a guinea for his fee. Then in your issue of to-day you state: "Tho one broken ih tho Ch.A----t-se Association was smashed by a bottle of ink being thrown through it, and that was taken as an indication, that the act was not tho work of the anti-Socialist mob." The pane of glass referred to was not broken by a bottle of ink, but by a piece of brick, which, after going through tho window, fell on tho head ol one o" the members inside. As to whether the. act was or was not tho work of the anti. Socialist mob, I am not iu a.position toaffirm, but at the time—about eight o'clock last Sunday evening—this damage wns done, a largo crowd wero marclitng .towards, the west.—l am, etc., JOE YOU WAH. 42 Haining Street.