COALFIELDS OUTRAGE
RINGLEADERS PUNISHED
MAGISTRATE'S SEVERE - COMMENT
(Received 22« a February, 9 a.m.)
NEWCASTLE, This Day.
Of the 72' men who participated in the Ashton Fields Colliery, disorders on 10th January, when two men from that
pit were molested, stripped naked, beaten, and pursued into tho bush, 68 were coiwictcd to-day by the Police Magistrate, Mr. Reed. The three ringleaders—A. Gazzel, Vincent Charlton, and Harry Deas, were each sentenced to three months*, imprisonment with hard labour. Five others were fined £18, in default four months' imprisonment. The remainder, with two exceptions,'were fined £8, in default two months' imprisonment. The two exceptions, who had befriended tbe victims of the outrage, were fined £3. The Magistrate described the conduct of the ringleaders as dastardly, cowardly, and inhunian. He said that it was hard to believe that . such' outrages could be committed in a civilised age.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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143COALFIELDS OUTRAGE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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