SCENE AT A FUNERAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1090, 22 June 1882, Page 4

SCENE AT A FUNERAL.

An extraordinary scene has been witnessed at a funeral at Leicester. The wife of a man living in the North had died, and it was alleged by the neighbors that he had been visiting places of amusement with another woman while his wife was lying dead. This woman, on arriving to keep the house while the funeral took place, was turned out by the man’s brother-in-law. She was then seized by a large crowd of people, pelted with ruddle, flour, blaeklead, &e., while her clothes were torn into shreds. The crowd declined to allow the hearse and mourning coaches to approach the bouse till they had wreaked their vengeance on the woman. At length she was rescued, in a terrible plight, by a j oliceman. The crowd hooted the man as lie left for the funeral, and on returning the presence of a number of policemen w as necessary to protect him from personal violence.

A very indecorous interruption to the sermon was offered by some individual in St. .John’s Church last evening. The Rev. Mr Towgood was officiating, and in of his remarks he was drawing different types of character. “ Take Bill Sykes, for instance, ’ ho said, when a deep bass voice added’ “and his dog.” It would not have been seemly for Mr Towgood to descend from the pulpit and eject the ill-man-nered interrupter, but if he had done so we might have excused him Herald.