Parrot Starts a Riot.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 June 1910, Page 4

Parrot Starts a Riot.

1 .EIGHTY MEN REQUIRED TO RESTORE OR,DIOR. A parrot roused a, riot in tilio French town «(l' Lille recently. So-me years ago a man named Gel per won a prize of £ 10,000 in the IVess Lottery of Paris. He built a bouse with Mie money, fliul bought a' parrolt. One day the parrot 'Went for an, excursion into Lille, and.U. Gelper offered a reward of 10s to any one who would bring it bac-k. A man named Bosch .and lanothej man called Louis caught Poupoule, as tihe parrot was called, and claimed till e reward, bnlti Bosch declared, that he wanted the 10s all to himself, and that .INI. Gel per, must pay 10s ho both of them or the bird should be sdt free again. The result was a fight -wliicth started in tlie house of M. Gelper, .and ' went on tli rough the streets to the I police staltion. J3efore the three I men got there ,an immense crowd i >li:ul taken sides in tlie quarrel, and were fighting too. Tlie police, with great impartiality, tried to arrest everybody, and several people were badly luirfti before rein force meats came.- Eighty men were required to restore order. M. Bosch had three ribs broken and M. Gelper got a black eye. ■———II