EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN SHEFFIELD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1944, 20 March 1885, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN SHEFFIELD.

. o A distressing incident occurred in Sheffield. Mrs Fuller, the wife of a greengrocer, had for a few days been suffering From foyer, Anxiety and the cares of business seem'to have also affected Mr, Fuller, for early in the morning the neighbours heard sounds as if crockery and glass being smashed, and the children screaming most piteously. This was follow ed"a little later by cries of "Murder", and j|f)ji two policemen forced the door to en'tdr'tlie 1 liduse. "A ffjndow opens on tp (ih'p. leads over the sliop, "and as' s'ppn' as pip constables came Mrs Fuller' opened the wiiidowand tjuew one of tjie younger, children pn tp £hp leafls. She theh'stepp' : ftf RHti 81)4) saving tp her- husband ''■% pi, low me, Bill", sprang from the Jeadn into the street, a distance of about 4.4 ft, The husband obeyed her, and, taking up the child, he tossed it down to his-wife. She ran forward and caught it. Mr. and Mrs Fuller had nothing on but'their night- v drops, and th,e cjtjld was Snaked, A / policeman tp persuade them ' to return tp tjie house \ hut they refuaefl, and walked arm-in-arm down'the street, singing a hymn, Tho poliooman then asked them to go to tlie ohapol with him, and they at once consented, He led thorn towards the Highfield polioo" station, nearly a mile off. Meanwhile, a policeman who had gone into the house, found that the erockery.glass, mirrors, and furniture had been smashed to atoms, and lying about were knives, an axe, hammer.ij, and other weapons. A baby was lying partly i'n's other children were in hed ; '(lripping,Wet', 1 They told a pitiable story of what their father and mother had keen doing to them. Mr and Mrs Fuller were taken home in a cab from the police station* and left in the charge of a policeman and friends. About ton o'clock, however, they succoeded in smashing the window- and getting pn the leads again, and caused ' great excitement in" tho street;, la,ddcr« \ were •procured, and .after much trouble they ware got back into the house,