BATTLE WITH POLICE.
■A serious . affray occurred betAveen riiiners , and police at Wood Pit, Haydock, near St. 'Helens. Three policemen we're rerKdVeu' r to v ' hospital ' ""for 1 medical treatment. The - pit is -the- property of Messrs Richard . Evans .and Company, avlio ,are tlie owners of extensive mines m the districti arid" tlierb ' had 'been* trouble regarduig.the alleged "filling, of c*6al by firemen. Large crowds' of : -miners from * the' EaxlestoAvn district assembled vyesterday at the Wood Pit, but ■''•we're driven away by 'the- police. Tlie men .hen went to the Prince's Pit, AA^hich die owned "by -the same -firm, and, after -committing some damage, returned vto tho Wood Pit. •., I The croAvd, wliich now numnered f tilly one tlioUsarid,""' Occiipied the pit" head,* and fdrtSy poliecmen . Avho *were sent to dis* lodge them Avere met'-Avitha fusillade. of. . \ . .'"'''' V ',-"-'' Police Constables Thorriley, oi 'Hay-' dockV Mri-feri; of ' Eai'lestown, and "RaAvs-*---thorne, * 6f St. ' Atiries, BladkpOol, AA'brc struck on the head. Rawstliorne sustained slight concussion pf, the brain. . .Irispec'tor,T.ani^, a\*lio was iri charge of tlie police, then divided his force, and outflanked the crowd,- who- were driA*en* b&ck to the. road, but-,the police Avere unable to. arrest any one. . .Large contingent's of police were drafted into Ha^dcock from Bury and other' places-, and .were lodged .'in the^ lectureroom at Messrs Eyan^ cbllieiy p:j*emises; The. people, at .H^ay^lock , are indignant , at the disturbance, which theiy declare Avas caused by dut-iders; •""■'• '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12748, 27 April 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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