TARRED AND FEATHERED.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 July 1919, Page 5

TARRED AND FEATHERED.

THE CAMBRIDGE - INCIDENT. LONDON, June 11 Further details have been ‘ received of the extraordinary occurrence at Cambridge, ‘where a. naval ' A‘ 20.yearS of age, Was disco\Eleel~:flQnaatnt.9: °’cl°Ck in the morning, thickly tarred and feathered, -chained and double padlocked to a tree. He was chained up Opposite the Y.W.C.‘A.’s hostel. The story is that a military lieutenant discovered that the young naval ofiicer was paying attention to the newly-married wife of a soldier who was serving In the Balkans. The husband, states that he warned his wife and her lover, and that he offered toforgive her if she reformed She refused to return to her husband, whose brother "caught the lover, ordered him to undress rolled him in tar and featharr. and chained him up Then thousands of pamphlets were distributed announcing what had been idone, and giving the names of the [parties.