MADMAN AT LARGE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 6

MADMAN AT LARGE

f i (!>v Ti'lc^raph.— Association.) j DAROAYILLK. Last Night. | An An-irian or Croatian ran amok i a i. night, and created great- excitement. Me arrived from the country in tic .Uterinum, and secured lodgings at a boarding-house frequented by c uintrymon. lie was queer in the evening, and was induced to go to bedA bum !) o'clock he rushed into t lie billiard room in tin 1 premises clothed ! i 11Iy iu a. singlet, so;/.-.! t.vo cuc-s and j -mashed the ia;tip fittings. Two per- ; sons wii-i were iu the loom lied for safety. ' Tho madman gained the s reet, j wrecked the ueelylone lights under I the verandah, ard attack a store kept by an Austrian, completely demolishing one plate gla-s window and damaging the other. .Me proceeded down tho street, entered another shop, struck the proprietor. injuring his eyes so that he needed medical attention. H.e wrecked the shop cases and fittings Me was isocuro:! and taken r. tho lock-up. At the beginning of his frenvy he was singing Halkan v.-ar songs, uml declared that he was guarding the gates of Constantinople. His n.oirnl condition had not improved to-,la v.