BROKEN HILL RIOTS.
THREE ®Ett FOUND GUILTY. TOM 'MANN DENOUNCED. A FOMENTER OF STRIFE. By TflegrapTi.— Preas Association.— Copyright. -SYDNEY, 6th (May. In the Circuit Court at iAlbnry 10-day Stoket, and May, two of the men charged with being concerned in tho riot at 'Broken Hill on 9th January, were found guilty, the jury recommending thsm to mercy owing to the excitement prevailing^ at the time. ' iMr. Justice Pring, in sentencing tho men — May to two and Sfeokes to three, years' imprisonment with hard labour — said tho men of ißroken 'Hill had been misled by Tom 'Mann, who, they would some day find out, was their worst enemy. "Ho lives," added his Honour, "on tho keeping up of this strife. The sooner you awako to tho fact that this is an agitator who lives upon your hard earnings, and that he is your enemy, the better it will be for you." Harry Edmund Holland, the 'Socialist, was found guilty of using seditious language and inciting to resist at Broken Hill.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1909, Page 7
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170BROKEN HILL RIOTS. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1909, Page 7
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