BROKEN HILL.
RIOTERS SENTENCED.
United Press Association. —By Blecferic Telegraph.—Copyright. Sydney, May 6. Stokes and May were found guilty of rioting at Broken Hill on January 9th. May was sentenced to two year* and Stokes, to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour. The jury had recommended them to mercy owing ! to the excitement prevailing at the time. Judge Rring, in sentencing them, said the men at Broken Hill had been misled by Tom Mann, who, they would some day find out, was their worst enemy. “He lives on keeping up strife,” said His “and the sooner you awake to the fact that this agitator who lives upon your hard earnings is your enemy the better for yon.” Holland, a Socialist, was found gnilty Of using seditions language at Broken Hill.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9438, 7 May 1909, Page 5
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130BROKEN HILL. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9438, 7 May 1909, Page 5
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