PATHETIC CASE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1894, 31 October 1913, Page 8

PATHETIC CASE.

■ MOB TREATMENT AND AFTER. A shocking case, with an element of pathos, lias been brought under notice m connection with tho strike now in progress. On Saturday last a certain man was employed in working cargo on one of the steamers in port, and, after leaving the wharf, was heard to boldly assert that he did not believe in strikes, and had ''scabbed." He was pursued up Jervois Quay, through Hunter Street, into _ Customhouse Quay, and after receiving a rough handling succeeded ill boarding a south-bound car. An attempt was made to pull him off, but he fought for freedom, and was borne away on the car out of harm's way. It is understood that tho treatment which the man received'so proyed on his mind that, on Tuesday, liis reason gave way, and his wife had to call on the police for protection, as lie had become dangerous. As the police cannot, _ with 7 out a warrant, arrest a person in his own house, tact had to do exercised, and the man's medical attendant succeeded in inducing him to leave the house, when ho was at once, taken in charge by tho police, and after a desperate struggle wbb conveyed in a motor-car to the Porirua Asylum.