"A DONNYBROOK FAIR."
WILD SCENES IN PICNIC TRAIN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Oamaru, Jan. 21. A recent United Friendly Society picnic train from Oamaru to Timaru contained' 2000 persons, including women and children. A number of young men drank to excess in Timaru, and ths scenes on the return journey were indescribable. Three constables, who were pas?cngers, proved powerless to keep order, nr.d the train was described A3 a Donnybrosk Fair from end to end. Nine windWs were broken. The first trouble was started by a man objecting te another pulling a woman through the window at a stop; thereafter it spread to the whole train. .One peacemaker was seized by the wrists and held over the opening between the platforms while the train was at full speed, and hi? life was only eaved by the interference of other passcrgers. Women and children were screaming, and the floors of The carriages were described as covered with vomit.
These facts were made public to-day, when seven young men, of previously good charactwr, were before Mr. Bartholomew, S.M. All were fined £5 for offensive behavior on the train; three of them were also fined £3 for obscene language.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1920, Page 6
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195"A DONNYBROOK FAIR." Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1920, Page 6
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