MILITIA TOO SLOW
SHERRIFF YIELDS PRISONER Early in the evening the State Governor, Mr. Parkes, had called out the militia, but they were slow in mobilising. The Government tank they were using was attacked by- the mob and put out of commission by stones. Finally the sherriff gave the pri^oner to the mob who promptly hanged him and then poured petrol on the body a,nd burned it.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19331130.2.33
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 November 1933, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
67MILITIA TOO SLOW Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 November 1933, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in