BROKEN HILL RIOTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 501, 7 May 1909, Page 5

BROKEN HILL RIOTS.

" TWO AND■Trttf££VEA , rtS fc C&dfii THE JUDG(S'I)I!!'N'dtISfCSS : TM' MANN. (BiMDEenAPii— press" AssocuTioir—cbPTßiOHi") ' • '.. (Rec. May G, 1 9.5' p;m';)' SydnVSSr", May(£ Stokes and 1 May,, two of-the' men on'.trial at ! 'Alb\rry itf-conrte'ctW with' the Broken Hill 1 fiotiWg: charges', wore''louti'd 1 guilty' of' ribtirfg: at'Bro!ceri'HiJf>n Jaiiuary 9: May was'sontbh'ced to two years' and Stoker to three years' hard labour. The jury had rc'com'rdetided'-' acoused to mercy, owing to; the excitement prevailing in Broken Hill at the tithe. Mr.- justice Pririg,iri 1 pftssitig sentence'; said that' the' men*of Broken" Hill ; had' been misTe'd' By.' Tori' Marin 1 (recbiitly' ae'i)iiitted''a"t"'Aib l ury'on'-th'e'rioting' charges). . "Some day," ayded'tfe Judge*,-' "yon will' fine! but that" Me"warybilr' worst; enemy'.- Ho' lives" flh" keeping" up" strife." • Tlib sb'bhcK y'btf awake'to' the. fact, thai- this agitator:, who lives upbir your l hard K earnin'gs is'ybur eh'eniyi. theV better-'fbi 1 ybtf. ll ', ', _ _;, Hbilaffd; Socialist', was' found" guilty' of using seditious at Broken Hill. "SIMPLY BRUTAL-DEVILISH." Though l Broke* Hill iKih'«rs' ; gfcdtl}' resented tW tXttthgb'of .venue'to Alh'uryV a* AlburyjuYy . rcooritly acquitted' TonV Marin-, oft' 1 the' rioting dharges;-: ..The jury in''the present case' has-.cdme (o a different cpnclu'sibri.:. Mr; Justice Pririg, in sunYming' up\ in the' case against Mann,- said the; witriess.es for the'deforicb had, if possible, shown, that' what took pTace ; w'as even niofe.'dis'6rab6ful : .than'.. h'a'd. ..been represented by tltf pfos&utiofi'. His Ho'riour' feferfed' iii ,'sc'ath'in'g Wbrcfe' of'- cbn'dem'imtibii to' thV debtor's''eiperi J erioe whe'ri ; trying to ,; gef : ttirbuih" the lino'-" to visit the v victim? of a ofntfl 1 burr'afe)' "It' was simfljr b'futal—devilish,-th'at WaS'-tho'-ouly way he could'to'rm' ! it;" :" .:.;•.;,""• \ After his:acquittal'at : Albiiry llintf was Carried' shoulder.kigh.- In the'course of-.a .speech he said:—"We are.too dignified to have any stupid I animosity towards' a mere' pblioeHiahj and.our cause is too noble for us4o be identified with paltry".' p£tlifogg'in'g" .personalities. We-, have a 1 holy,-we have., a iriagnificent cansc —the cause: df .the we' are}, permitted to", lie- sbldie'rs in that: cause.'. (Cheers!] • I would nb'fr Have whimpered' if tliey'had'said five" year's for;", the'' j6li.' Biff Wb" are' mb'r'6" felea'sed' fro'tit maii's' tippte'ss'ioii'' arid' by Hid gods/ that ih'auV tis 1 - wtf'will ■ let? the" Capitalist ' 6rtfWd' Knott" it' ii" thd 1 .future'-: Witlibilt" utineee* sary" delay." (CHc'e'r's;)'