ROYAL TIGER RIOT
"THE WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN." As is jstill Welt remembered. a disgraceful strike, riot occurred outside t,ho Royal Tiger_ H.otpi .iit Ta'.ranaki Street oil the .night of November '4. Almost all tlio windows in the house woro broken with missiles. During the retrial of Holierfc Hill yesterday oft a chargo of having. taken part in ' hnt riot, ' Sir. P. S. K. Macassoj, CroWti i'roseeutori askc/l Potceiivc»Se.rgeaut Cassolls 'to describe • the riot. This was the dcscrapt:o.t.i tho deteoiivo (Jii'vc: —"I Wfs iliefo from rtbo'ut (.-30 till 11.13, Tiiere were several hundred ■people present:, throwing stones, ing, and yelling, ' A :|K\rioct fiisilladta ol stones. against tlio Royal Tiger Hotel was kept, up, npttv-ithstiindiiiK that the house sheltered several women iind. children, wfio were, in a state of Jci.ifir> Coi'.Unl'le Warner was knocked oik his liersio hy n stone, whieh struck him on tlio side of tlio head, and he has been incapacitated ever since. The eonduet of the Crowd, was the worst I liavo ■ ■oyer experienced in my twenty years' experience in tlio Kow Zealand policy ■ 'Force,"
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 6
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179ROYAL TIGER RIOT Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 6
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