RIDING TEE GOAT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1947, 24 March 1885, Page 2

RIDING TEE GOAT.

A unique case was tried recently before Justice Gait at Whitby, a small village twenty miles east of this city, Richard Kinver, a chaimiaker, brought suit against the Phoenix Lodge of Oddfellows, of Whitby, for injuries received at the hands of members of that lodge while he was being initiated into the mysteries of the order. The case is the first of the kind ever brought before a Court of Justice in this country, and has excited a great:deal of interest. The Court room was crowded with members of the Phoenix Lodge and curious outsiders, anxious to leani'something of the secrets of the brotherhood. Tho plaintiff appeared in the ooiirt leaning on crutches. He was badly bruised, about the face and body and appeared tq be suffering severe pain. On'the witness? stand he told the stoiy of the events on the night of initiation. : He was met, he said, by a committee of the Oddfellows Lodgo, who first blindfolded him by' drawing a black cap over hia face so that ho could not see. and then led him into fa tho Lodge room. His entrance, was the ™ signal for shouts of derision rfroni tho : . members present, Hejiardly.gbt-inside ■' when he was forcibly seized from either ' side, and whirled rapidly around untjjhe became so dizzy that he lost all idea of his surroundings. Then a chain was fastened round his body and he was dragged roughly about the room'the cap atjll being down over his head. When the brethren had tired of yankine him about on the end of a chain, he was brought up standing while a mysterious jargon was gone through with. Suddenly the can-- • didato received a push from behind,' which threw him onhisface. Hisfeettrippedoyei'Bomething, and hofell headlongpn the fjoqr, striking, in falling, upon a stool, which cut a deep gash in his head. He was partly stunned by the fall. He was ■ • just conscious enough to hear someone ask in a deep voice: "Brethren, shall we have mercy?" and someone else replied: "Havo mercy." Then he was lifted up off the floor by the chain, and was led about the room for awhile, with the cap still on, until he had somewhat recovered from the effectß of the fall. His initiation was not concluded owing to his inability to stand more. Since then the witness < testified that he had been sick, bo that he ( had been unable to support his family by' Wk working at his trade. Physicians whom ■ he had consulted said that his injuries would trouble him for several years, and that he might never get over them. The defendant Oddfellows admit the truth of & testimony regarding the ex- L periencoin the lodge-room. They said it was the custom of the lodge to lead candidates for initation around with a : ■ view of bewildering or befogging them ■}. so that when the cap is removed they cannot find the door by which they'entered tho room. There is no intention • of harming the candidates, and the initiation is not rougher than a healthy man can stand, The constitution of the order requires that the candidate should be of •-, sound health. Medical men testified that ; "' ; Kinver had received internal injuries • •• from which he might die. The caßewas' L ' adjourned to the higher Oourtat Toronto. -'Toronto Times.'

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