COALFIELDS CONDUCT
MAGISTRATE’S SCATHING COMMENT. (United Press Association—By Electri* Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 22, 1.15 a.m.> NEWCASTLE, Feb. 21. Of the seventy-two men w*ho participated in Ashtonfields colliery disorders on January 10, when two men, from that pit, w’ere molested, stripped naked, beaten and pursued into the bush, sixty-eight were convicted to-day by the Police Magistrate (Mr Reed). Three ringleaders (A. Gazzle, Vincent Charlton and Harry Deas>, w r ere sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Five others were fined £lB in default four months’ imprisonment. The remainder, with two exceptions, w’ere fined £B, in default two months’ imprisonment. The two exceptions, W’ho had befriended the victims of the outrage, were fined £3. The Magistrate described the con- ] duct of the ringleaders as dastardly, I cowardly and inhuman. He said it was | hard to believe that such outrages could be committed in a civilised age.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18500, 22 February 1930, Page 8
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