COWARDLY GAMES

Evening Star, Issue 20666, 13 December 1930, Page 2

COWARDLY GAMES

HOOLIGANS CHASED OH MOTOR CYCLES Gangs of hooligans are threatening to terrorise the East End of Newcastle, especially on Sundays, and the city. , police• are making efforts to suppress them before they become spore‘danger* * ous. A sequel was the appearance-be-fore the city magistrates of more than a score of young men charged with disorderly behaviour. Motor cycle patrols* , it was said, have assisted foot police, and one young gangster was chased half ■ a mile by police on machines before h» collapsed and was caught. , . .- ' The youths before the magistrates varied in age from eighteen to twenty- - four years. “The lads go about.m gangs ©very day,” said a police witness, and tba chairman, stating “the practice must) be stopped,’ ’ fined each offender ss. Jn one case it was said that the youths }iad gone into a district in whim none of them lived, and, by shouting and bawling and jockeying, each other about tlje road, caused considerable distjirbance. When tb© police , appealed ■ they ran away,* only to return later with their numbers increased by th* addition of their mothers and other re- . latives. , , • : • , A' woman whom the youths appeared. to suspect of informing the police was' alleged to have been stoned, while Other stones wore thrown at.her house. When' sijc police Officers arrived in. the street the youths turned attention to th#in, it was stated, throwing stopes and bottles, and then decamped.