CASTOR-OIL DRINK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 107, 15 February 1935, Page 2

CASTOR-OIL DRINK.

* fate of beggar. Punishment of a professional beggar has been carried out by Cambridge undergraduates in high-handed fashion states the ‘'Daily Mail.” This is what they did to him. Trapped him in a university lodging house in the centre of the town; gagged and bound him; took him by car to a field on the Aladingley road; there they compelled him to sign a confession; made him swallow castor oil; took off his trousers; and left him to walk into the town with that garment slung around his neck, and his hands tied behind his back. What became of him the undergraduates do not know, but whoever released him did not report; the matter to the police, and; the beggar himself lodger no complaint at the police station. Presumably he would not go there because the police know him and his methods. < ’ His pose is that of a man of religious conviction appealing to the sympathies of the devout. / „ For that reason he chose as the victim of his plausibility an undergraduate belonging to a religious movement. He said he was a workman waiting to obtain employment in the building of the new 5 Guildhall, and the undergraduate gave him £3. “Afterwards I had misgivings as to the genuineness of the appeal,” the undergraduate said, “and these were confirmed at the police station. A week later the beggar called again. I told him to come hack later, and when he did so there were six undergraduates waiting for him.” All this happened on Guy Fawkes’ night, so that anybody who saw the carrying of a truss- \ ed man with covered face from the university lodging house into the street would think it part of a rag.