WRESTLED WITH A HORSE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11, 11 August 1911, Page 1

WRESTLED WITH A HORSE.

EXPLOITS OF A MADMAN. A mailman's wild career through the streets caused groat excitement in Dubi lin the other day. The man, John iTwamley, aged about 35, who recently !returned from America and was residing j in 17 Ciarden l.ane with his uncle, swljdenk showed signs of inontal aberra■i'uml He got out of bed, doalt his undo ! several blows in the face, and then, seizing a table-knife, ran into the streot. iscroamitig at the top of his voice. ] He rushed at people be met in the !street, and several nion and women '.-wore "knocked down. He Hung the knife i at a man, but fortunately the weapon ' missed its mark ami stuck in a door. I Seeing a bread van drawn up at the '.footpath, Twamley tackled the horse iand tried to throw the animal to the. ground. i Not succeeding in this, he commenced ; smashing shop windows and did considerable damage. At one shop ho ;i seized a box of eggs and flung it into 1 the roadway. His final feat was to at-'-tack a donkey and cart and to back the ',; vehicle into a shop window. A couple I of policemen and some civilians then ! closed with him, and after a fierce I struggle he was overpowered and taken j to the police statino.