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MEN CHALLENGE 121 JURORS IN PANEL OF 288
— By Tfclegr-iph — C op- 'ri ght) .
Sydney, Sept. 6. Unprecedented scenes were witnessed at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions when the names of 288 jurymen, the larg*st number ever summoned for a single case in New South Wales, were called at the trial of 30 men who were arrested after the alleged eviction riot last June. The accused challenged 121. Fifteen of the accused exhausted their right of challenge.
Nine policemen and about 20 unemployed pickets were injured, some of them severely, in a desperate antieviction fight at a cottage at Highfield, Newcastle. Thirty arrests were made. The affray started when a small army of policemen descended upon the cottage with the intention of evicting the tenant and found that the unemployed were in possession of the cottage.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 321, 7 September 1932, Page 5
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