SHRIEKING MOB
VIOLENT BRAWL FREE FIGHT IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Jan. 6. A violent brawl occurred last night in Waterloo, a suburb of Sydney, in winch six men and one woman were injured, and Sidney Laws, 52, bad his skull fractured. A free fight occurred outside an hotel and attracted a crowd of 500 people. The police arrested two men and were obliged to take refuge with their prisoners in a local stadium, locking the door behind then). Police reinforcements arrived and found men struggling on the ground, onlookers kicking them unmercifully. ’The police in their own interests drew their batons and soon dispersed the shrieking, hooting mob, and conveyed the injured to hospital.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18597, 7 January 1935, Page 7
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113SHRIEKING MOB Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18597, 7 January 1935, Page 7
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