AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21199, 3 December 1930, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MAN KICKED UNCONSCIOUS. THE MEAT STRIKERS BLAMED. (United Press -Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)" SYDNEY, December 2. John Roset was felled with an iron bar and kicked into unconsciousness in the suburb of Waverley. The police blame the meat strikers, as Roset works at hie brother’s butchery. STREET DISTURBANCES. COMMUNISTS PINED. SYDNEY, December 2. (Received Dec. 3, at 0.30 a,m.) , Of thirteen Communists who were associated with the street disorders preceding the opening of the State Parliament Inst week eight were convicted on m variety of charges, chiefly riotous behaviour, assaulting the police, and using threatening words. The fines ranged from 20s to 40s. CRIMINALS RECAPTURED. . SECOND BID FOR FREEDOM. SYDNEY, December 2. The two men who escaped from the patrol van were both recaptured. One, ‘ Joseph Schmidt, a notorious criminal, was caught in a cave at Hiirstville. He made another bid for freedom, leaping over the heads of the police, but was caught and, ironically enough, taken back to gaol in the same van from which he made his cunning getaway. This time, however, the floor was of steel. Two men who were on remand in connection with charges of alleged complicity in housebreaking were being transported in a police van through a busy street in Annandale on November 15, when they tore up the flood boards, dropped through, and escaped. The efforts of another prisoner to give the alarm to the driver and the escort were counteracted for some time by the noise of the traffic. Then the constables received the surprise of their lives.