WORRYING A PRISONER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2067, 3 July 1890, Page 3

WORRYING A PRISONER.

ft would appear from the following, which appeared in the Ashburton Guardian, that the person who was taken from Timaru to Christchurch on a charge of embezzlement was no great favorite with the Ashburton people. The Guardian says :—lt was generally known that a former resident of the town would be a passenger by the Southern express to Christchurch, there to stand his trial on a serious charge of embezzlement of moneys belonging to a leading banking institution, This circumstance appears to have found sufficient excuse for a number of unthinking persons, ably seconded by a band of the gewfit larrikin, to gather at the Nation and hoot and yell at ths. miserable accused. Not content with this unseemly and Un-British display of biassed feeling, the accused man, who sought to hide himself from the petty persecution of bis enemies, was compelled to suffer the personal indignity of having his under which he lay concealed, rudely removed from him by one more precocious youth than the rest. On this unjustifiable act being co.muleted the remainder of the crowd, if we are rightly informed, set up a chorus of yells and jeers, not directed against the unmanly perpetrator of the outrage, but against the defenceless victim.