STRANGE DEFIANCE.
I*ItKSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 11.21 p m , August 14. New York, August 14. The Supreme Court of the United States decided that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company were illegally charging two fares from Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island when only entitled to a single live cent faro The decision was ignored. Special police forcibly ejected upwards of a thousand people from ears, objecting to
the extra fare. Two women and a man ejected from the rear trestle were entrapped between two ears, being thrown into a creek and almost drowned. The authorities have revoked all permits to special police, and will assist in prosecuting lor charges of assault.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1834, 15 August 1906, Page 2
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110STRANGE DEFIANCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1834, 15 August 1906, Page 2
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