SYDNEY RIOTERS .IN COURT AMID CROWD WEARING RED TIES

Grey River Argus, 20 March 1947, Page 5

SYDNEY RIOTERS .IN COURT AMID CROWD WEARING RED TIES

(Rec. 8.50). SYDNEY, March 19. The police took extraordinary precautions to prevent disturbances inside and outside the Central Court, to-day when the fifteen men and one .woman came before the Court on the charges arising out of the riot in the Sydney Domain yesterday afternoon. Police mingled with a crowd which waited outside of the court before the accused were charged, and police were also sprinkled through a packed public gallery after proceedings began. After the court had granted remands, the police had to disperse big crowds in the street outside. Most of two hundred men who were in the public gallery’wore red ties or revolutionary emblems. There was nc attempt to create a serious disturbance. Remands were granted and bail was fixed at fifty pounds each, in the case of the fourteen men.

During the proceedings, a man in the public gallery shouted to one of the defendants: “Get up and have a go, you mug!” He was seized by the police, and later was fined ten shillings, or, in default sentenced to the ris'ng of the court. One man and the woman pleaded not guilty to behaving in an offensive manner and using insulting words respectively. They were remanded with bail at £5.