MODERN ASTROLOGY.
A remarkable outrage was recently committed on Queen Anne's "mean and sooty" statue, in front of St. Paul's Cathedral. About 7 o'clock in the evening a man of wild appearance was seen to clamber over the spiked railing enclosing the effigy. "With the agility of a monkey he climbed up the figures forming the figures forming the base of the statue, and then, taking an axe from beneath his coat, commenced to "hack off what remained of her Majesty's nose, and smiting oil the left ear. Passing round the rear of the figure, he vigorously set to work on the back of the head, chipping the stone avrny in lai£r<* flakes ?.H rnund. Having e.tliHUsled lii.s ' p;ission tii>j m;tn trvlniiy Mid railing.*.. He v.';i!i rherfiipon ih:i.?i.im'il by ii. person v/ho h.ni watched hia r.xiwiTdinary proceedings, and afterwards handed over to a constable. He was recognised at the police station as a painter, who, having been some time tigo employed at St. Paul's was arrested for breaking a pane of glass in the Cathedral. The prisoner as his motive for disfiguring the statue that "the stars had told him to do it.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 9424, 29 June 1882, Page 3
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193MODERN ASTROLOGY. Temuka Leader, Issue 9424, 29 June 1882, Page 3
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