N.S.W. COAL TROUBLE
POLICE INPSECTOR CHARGED. (Australian Press Association) .•SYDNEY, Feb. 27. Police Inspector Mackay, was charged at Kurrikurri with assaulting and also with using threatening words to a. Communist named Patton, when tfie latter was being detained at the Cessnock Police Station on the day alter the police had prevented a demonstration in connection with the coal fields trouble. Patton alleged that Mackay struck him in the face, and then ordered him, using very strong language to be out of town within twenty-four hours oi else he “would be fixed for all time.” (Questioned regarding Communism, the complainant said that he “had m, time for the Union Jack nor the Australian flag.” The corroborating witnesses, who avowed that they were Communists, refused to be sworn in on the Bible. The police evidence denied that any assault or any threat occurred. The case was dismissed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1930, Page 1
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