SIKH'S STRANGE BEHAVIOUR.
AUCKLAND DOMAIN SCENE. ';'-. ■ . (By Telegraph-Special ■ Correspondent.) ' Auckland, August 24. ; -- . The police received information yes- ■ terday that a coloured, man was wander- ' ing about 'the Domain and behaving in a very eccentric manner. Thrco con- ':■'. stables searched tho Domain, and surroundings for a couple of hours, and at last Constable Kennedy noticed . tho man. lecturing .to himself in one of tho gullies in the vicinity. The man ran -.- away when ho noticed the constables, ■'.'• and,'on: being overtaken, ho . turned upon his pursuers with a stout stick and flourished it viciously, one of the constables having a narrow escape of being felled to the ground. The. con- ... etables : rushed at the man, aiid, after <■> a prolonged struggle, succeeded in ■;■'• ■ handcuffing him,, and.conveying him to the police, Ho is a Sikh by ■birth. When arrested' he was barefooted, and his. clothes wore very ragged, but, upon a search being - ' made, the sum of £3 3s. 2d. was found upon him; also a Savings Bank - book "■' ' Wlth *}\ ,t« hie credit. He was ..•-■ brought before, the Court yesterday ,-.■' and remanded to the mental' hospital •'-. for observation. •
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 904, 25 August 1910, Page 7
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184SIKH'S STRANGE BEHAVIOUR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 904, 25 August 1910, Page 7
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