TARRED AND FEATHERED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8890, 9 August 1907, Page 2

TARRED AND FEATHERED.

A most unusual occurronc is reported from Cpnnako. A man who lias been residing in the district a short time brought himself into disfavour by a breach of social laws, and it was decided that the man should ho punished and hunted out of the district.

On Saturday evening a crowd of from 60 to TO persons.mprohod to the house where lie was living. The man was pulled out, and the crowd dragged him along the road to a water table, where ho was given a good souring. Ho was then placed on his feet, and covered with tar and shavings. He was pulled along the road a little further, and then rolled off a small bridge into a creek. He was then taken out and compelled to go on his knees and humbly apologise to tbo man whose home he had desecrated. In the meantime, screams of “Murder!” had reached the town, and a constable ran to the scene and stopped tbo operations of the crowd, and took the man away. He was a sight pitiable to behold. The eoatiug*of tar, shavings and mud took considerable shifting. On Sunday the crowd took a trap to tiro house to drive the man away. Tiiis was prevented, however, and on Monday a constable escorted him out of the town. A large crowd followed the constable and the refugee, humming the “Dead March” to concertina mtisic. ' The ' constable was cheered and the man hooted.

The man was brought to New Plymouth by Detective Boddam. Court proceedings are expected.