OKAIAWA SENSATION.
ASSAULT AND RIOT. A sensation was caused in Okaiawa on Thursday morning (reports the Daily News correspondent). Mr. Blackmail, local baker, had occasion to go to his stable for horse feed, and as it was dark h<> \va s about to strike a match, when he sudenly received a violent blow on the jaw,', which knocked him down. On his attempting to rise he was again knocked down. I>ut in the interval he got a glimpse of his assailant, whom he thought .he recognised. Indeed, so sure was he of his identity that he addressed liim by his Christian name. However, the aggressor, whoever he was escaped in the darkness. On Friday morning Constable Adler, of Nornianby, was promptly on the scene, and as the result of his investigations it is probable that some charge will be made.
On Friday night a still greater sensation was caused by a much more serious character than the first. About eleven o'clock that night l a crowd consisting of about .sixty assembled in front of a local shop, and called out in menacing tones for the owner. He, however, refused to respond to the invitation, and a very angry mob then proceeded to smash his windows and to wreck his shop. The windows were broken with such violence that the sashes also gave way, and in a short while it looked as if a Taube had bombed it. Sticks, stones, bottles and every available missle were hurled at the building. Not content with this, the crowd rushed to t lie stable and dragging out a trap, proceeded to smash it up until, in a short while, its parts were scattered about the road. It was 2..H0 on Saturday morning when the crowd dispersed.
What relation there may have been between the assault on Mr Blackmail and the subsequent behaviour of the crowd will doubtless be known in due course. Sergeant MeNoely, of Ha-, wera, and Constable Adler, of Nor-i manby, have by persistent effort sue-; eeeded in getting the names of many of those who took part in the riot, and proceedings will doubtless result, j
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 75, 28 July 1915, Page 8
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355OKAIAWA SENSATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 75, 28 July 1915, Page 8
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