A Comedy in Church

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 118, 25 March 1893, Page 4

A Comedy in Church

One of the practical jokers who, like bad boys, are never happy unless in mischief, and a stupid policeman, encountered each other a few days ago. Mischief and stupidity brought about a disturbance, which Peck's Sun describes. The writer says : — "A most ridiculous scene occmred at a church in Newcastle. A. policemau was passing the church as a gentleman came out. The man jokingly accosted the policeman and said he was wanted inside. The stupid policeman thought there was pome trouble in the church, and went in. The sexton, seeing the policeman, said ' Come right in here,' and he took him into a pew, and waved his hand, as uuch as to say, * Help yourself.' There was another man in the pew, a deacon, with a sinister expression, as the policeaan thought, and he supposed he was the man they wanted arrested ; so he tapped him on the arm and told him to come along. The deacon turned pale, and edged along to get away, when the policeman took him by the collar and jerked him out into the aisle. The deacon struggled thinking the policeman was crazy, but he wns dragged along. Many of the congregation thought the deacon had been doing something wrong, and . some of them got behind the deacon and helped the officer to fire him out. The policeman saw the man who told him he was wanted in the church, and asked him what the charee was against the deacon, and he didn't know. Ehe sexton was next appealed to, and he didn't know, and finally the prisoner was asked what it was all about, and he didn't know. The policeman was asked what he arrested the man for, and he didn't know ; and after a while the matter was explained, and the policeman, who had to arrest somebody, took the man into custody who told him he was wanted in trie church, and he was fined five dollars and costs. The man now says he will never try to convert a policeman again.