The usual serenity of Pleasant Point was disturbed last evening by the somewhat eccentric conduct of Mr William Brown, who, after assaulting the landlady of a hoarding-house at which he was staying, nearly frightened some of the other hoarders out of their wits by threatening to cut off their heads, with many other little attentions of that sort. Mr Brown’s conduct at last became so outrageous that a messenger had to be despatched to Timaru for a constable, the constable in charge of the district having just been withdrawn. A mounted trooper proceeded to the Point last night, and this morning a warrant was issued for the apprehension of the disturber of the peace, hut up to a late hour this afternoon no news has been received as to the arrest having been made. Had a constable been on the spot to soothe Mr Brown’s excited feelings at the outset all trouble would have been avoided.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2315, 18 August 1880, Page 3
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