LUNATIC WITH A PITCHFORK.
Exciting Chase after a Madman in the Country. From the Co. Mayo comes the exciting story of a ten hours’ chase by the police alter a lunatic. A party of police from Clanmorris were requisitioned to place under arrest a person certified to be insane. They ambushed close to the man’s house, when they saw a postman “ducking” to avoid missies that were being thrown at him from an adjoining fence. Then the police saw the lunatic at the other side of the wall, and tried to surround him, but he proved too alert. Armed with a two-pronged fork he danced around and charged. Breaking through the line he took to the country. The police followed, but he kept ahead, finally getting a long way off by swimming across a river. After a considerable run he turned towards home, and the police, calling there in the evening, found him in bed in a state of collapse, the fork still held lightly in his grasp. After a few hours’ rest he attempted another dash, but was unable to resist the strong force, and was removed to Castlebar Asylum. When he returned home after the chase he was almost naked, and covered with mud, presenting a pitiable sight.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 26 March 1907, Page 4
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210LUNATIC WITH A PITCHFORK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 26 March 1907, Page 4
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