CONVERTING A POLICEMAN.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5039, 7 March 1885, Page 4

CONVERTING A POLICEMAN.

A most ridiculous scene occurred at a church in Newcastle not long since. A policeman was passing the church as a gentleman came out. The map jocosely a|iseosted.Jthe policeman and said he* was wanted inside. ■*' The policeman thought there' was some trouble in the church and went in. The sexton, seeing thelpoliceman,said, "Come right in here," and he took him to a pew, and waved his hand as much as to say, "Help yourself." There was another man in the pew, a deacon with a sinister expression, as tho policeman thought, and he supposed that he was the roan they wanted arrested, so he tapped the deacon on the arm, and told him to come along. The deacon turned pale and edged along to get away, when the policeman took him by the collar and jerked him out into the aisle. The deacon struggled, thinking the policeman was crazy, but he was dragged along. Many of the congregation thought the deacon had been doing something wrong, and some of them got behind the deacon and helped the officer to fire him but. ' v

The policeman saw the man who told him he was wanted in the church, and asked him what the charge was against the deacon, but he didn't'know. Tho sexton was next appealed to, but he didn't know, and finally the prisoner was asked what it was all about, and he didn't know.

The policeman was asked what he arrested the man for, and lie didn't know. After a while the matter was explained, and the policeman, who bad to arrest somebody, took the man into custody who told him he was wanted in the church, and he was fined five dollars and costs. The man now says he will never try to convert a policeman again.