Harry Ryan

Harry Ryan was a quarryman in Redan, <1909-1915>.

History
In March 1909, Ryan was called as a witness in an incident at the Grand Stand Hotel in Bell Street: "Harry Ryan, quarryman, of Darling street, Redan, said he was in Knoth’s hotel on the 13th inst. He was pretty well drunk. He did not remember much about the wrestling. He could not say who fell. He didn’t take much notice. He was reading a paper all the time. Peter Knoth, laborer, residing at the Grand Stand hotel, Redan, said Campbell was fairly drunk on the 13th inst. He was staggering about. Witness was partly drunk, too. He believed there was some wrestling, but he couldn’t say who was taking part in it. He was not in the bar all the time."

In June 1915 he was forced to call the police after his son James created a disturbance at the house: "The circumstances are as follow:— Ryan, who had been taking drink, had made himself a nuisance at his father's house, Darling Street, Redan, and the latter sent for the police. Senior-constable Blanchfield went to the place, and persuaded Ryan to leave, but as the constable was going away Ryan made use of an obscene expression, having reference to the 'policeman,' and the latter went back to arrest him for the use of it. Ryan, according to Senior-constable Blanchfield's statement, which was not denied in court, then shaped up, and struck him twice. It was only after a prolonged struggle that Ryan was subdued and lodged in the watch-house."