ASSAULT AND RIOT.
OKA lA\VA S KXSAT lONS. (From our Own Correspondent.) _ A sensation was caused in Okaiawa on Thursday morning' Mr. Blackmail, local liaker, liad occasion to go to bistable for horse feed, and as it was dark he was about to strike a match, w.'mi he suddenly received a violent blow on the jaw, which knocked him down. )n lis attempting to rise he was ag.ii.i .inucki'd down, but in the interval n« got a glimpse of his assailant, whom he thought he recognised. Indeed, >o sure was he of his identity that he addressed him by his Christian name, Hon - ever, the aggressor, whoever In- was capcd m the, darkness. Oil Friday morning Constable Adler, of Normanby, was promptly oil the scene, ami as the result of his investigations it is probable that some charge will be made.
On Friday night a still greater sensation was caused bv a much more .vi-ions character than the first. About eleven o'clock that night a crowd consisting of about sixty assembled in front of a local shop, and called out in menacing tones for the owner. lie, however, re fused to respond to the invitation, and a very angry mob then proceeded to smash bis windows and to wreck bis 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 weie burled >it the building. Not content with this, the crowd rushed to the stable anil dragging out a trap; proceeded to smash it up until, in a short while, its parts were scattered about the ro.id. It was 2.:50 on Saturday morning when the crowd dispersed
What relation there may have been between the assault 011 Mr. Blackmail and the subsequent behaviour of the crowd will doubtless be known in due course. Sergeant MeNoely, of Tlawm. and Constable Adler, of Normanbv. have by persistent effort succeeded in getting the names of many of those who tool: part in the riot, and proceedings will doubtless result.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1915, Page 7
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351ASSAULT AND RIOT. Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1915, Page 7
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