SCENE IN WILLIS STREET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 472, 2 April 1909, Page 5

SCENE IN WILLIS STREET.

.—. —f AN EXCITING ARREST. Tho steady flow of business in Willis fitrect was interrupted at 3.30 yesterday afternoon by a difference of opinion between a worker and an employer, with a policeman as the third party. It appears that the employee had beon requested to go home, but lie refused, and demanded.his wages. Efforts to pacify him were of no avail, and he proceeded to gather up sundry articles out of his employer's shop, remarking that they would do nim as well as wages. In the meantime a irowd of a couplo of hundred people had gathered, and with the crowd came a policeman, who immediately took a hand in the proceedings. He attempted to.gain the mastery of tho man, and a lively struggle ensued. The constable got into a rough-and-iumblo with his charge, and, even when a couple of citizens went to his assistance, the combined efforts still failed to get the man into a waiting cab. He got one arm free at length, ajid mado a wild swing at the constable, but missed him. In the meantime the crowd had been growing, attracted by the man's repeated cries that he would go puietly, and, when the trouble was at its 1-I Mght, Inspector Ellison came on the •*ne, and grasping tho situation immediately ordered the crowd to stand back, and then turned his attention to the ca,uso of tho trouble, who was placed in an exnumber of the onlookers hooting and groaning. The man will be charged with being drunk and disorderly, and with having used abusive language. • r