TARRING A VILLAGE CONSTABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2132, 29 October 1885, Page 2

TARRING A VILLAGE CONSTABLE.

At the Hakewell town hall, says an Engligh paper, several men were charged with lighting a bonfire in the Marketplace at Tideswell, Derbyshire, and assaulting the village constable. About 300 people assembled with the intention of burning the effigy of a tradesman, named Howell, who, by refusing the use of a large hall, of which he is the proprietor, for the village flower show, had made himself unpopular. The effigy was set lire to in front of Mr Howell's establishment. Police-constable Deakins succeeded in carrying off the burning effigy, and threw it into a water cistern. The people dragged it forth again, and a second time set it on the fire, one of the number holding the constable while this was done. Some of the mob, it is alleged, struck the officer across the face with tarred burning faggots and long straws, taken from the effigy, and temporarily blinded him, While standing in this state against a wall his unitorm was besmeared with tar, A mail named Edward Harrison Hill was charged with this part of the business, but, on his application, the case was adjourned, For the minor offences of lighting the effigy and obstructing the policeman the parties were, fined in nominal penalties. Good for Babies,—" We hre pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of American Go's Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength. "—The Parents, gee.