ROTHBURY RIOT
BULLETS FROM THE CROWD STICKS AND STONES VILE THREATS ALLEGED. United Pleas Association—By Electric Telegraph topyright-l SYDNEY, Jan. 20. A sensational story of the Rothbury riot, when one miner was killed, was told at the Maitland Court to-day, when 11 miners were charged with having on December 16 taken part in an unlawful assembly and having torn up the Branxton railway line. The magistrate decided to deal with the cases separately. Edward Auburn was convicted and fined £o, in default one month’s imprisonment. The police evidence was to the effect that revolver bullets were first fired from the crowd which stormed the colliery. Several thousand men with sticks and stones, uttering the vilest threats, tried in vain to reach the volunteer workers. “Let’s kill Weaver!” (Minister of Mines) was a notable threat.
DUMP OF EXPLOSIVES DISCOVERY IN SCRUB Received 12.15 p.m. to-(lav. SYDNEY, Jan. 21. A police flying squad on the coalfields discovered a dump of several hundred rounds of ammunition and a quantity of gelignite and detonators in some scrub at Kurri. It is thought to be part of recent thefts from the mines. Police are now on duty at most pits. All was quiet on the. coalfields ymsterdav. An attempt at a rally by Sydney Communists failed to raise any enthusiasm and the “Defence Army” appears to have been disbanded.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 21 January 1930, Page 5
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