A LIVELY ARREST

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2071, 24 December 1907, Page 2

A LIVELY ARREST

DRUNKEN MAN SHOWS FIGHT

Yesterday afternoon considerable diversion vias caused in town by the igoings-om of ia- South Sea Islander, well known in the district, who had recently ri turned to town fromi. « country to.ir. Ho looked with injudicious frequency on the wine when it was .red, and becoming aggressively pugilistic lie at last had the private Inur of one hotel all to himself, having cleared the room' by declaring his intention < i breaking every bono m tho body : ; every person then .present. The barman tried to persuade the warlike individual to go home, hut he refused, and gave further notice. that lie would annihilate the first person, who ventured into the bar. The barman then went outside to get police aid, and secured the services of two constables then off duty. The policemen entered the bar, and true to liis word tbo teiriporal'y owner thereof at onco sot out to annihilate them; but tliey were too quick for him, and after a short and lively struggle he was bundled out in to the street. The captive was taken a short distance towards the .police station with comparative ease, but then became very troublesome again. Ho struggled incessantly, and the constables found it expedient to throw him down on the footpath. Even in this position ho was hard to hold, and never ceased struggling for a minute. By some means Ins mouth had been made to bleed, and lie waited itnany times until liis month waii full of blood, when lie would squirt it over liis captors, so that the constables soon began to look like slaughtermen. -The constables soon saw that they had small chance of .getting their mail to the police station on foot. A cab was therefore called, and with the help of a civilian the bibulous individual was safely conveyed to tlx© station, though not without considerable struggling on his part. He will appear at the lolice Court this morning to answer charges of drunkenness., refusing to leave licensed promises, lifting obsceno language, resisting the police, and damaging a constable’s clothing.