THE SEPTEMBER DISTURBANCES
LONDON, 2nd October.
The Recorder of Liverpool, Mr. E. 0. Hemmerde, X.0., presiding at the Liverpoo' Police Court j where the leaders .of the unemployed disturbance in September were prosecuted, declared that the police used unnecessary* violence. The head of on© of the defendants was badly broken in three places. Another Had an arm broken, and his head smashed. The police' evidence showed that these two were urging the unemployed not to resort to violence.
[During an unemployed demonstration at Liverpool, in consequence of , the crowd trying to. take possession of the Art Gallery, b, free fight with the policeensued', and many were injured, including the Her. J. Laughland, who was th« leader of the demonstration. A hundred arrests were made, and many were removed in police vans with their heads bandaged.]
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 81, 3 October 1921, Page 7
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