SCENE IN BOULCOTT STREET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 563, 19 July 1909, Page 6

SCENE IN BOULCOTT STREET.

'.•ORATOR",' HARANGUES CHURCH- ;>: ' Quite'an' oxcitin'g scene.took'place :ia' •Boulcott,Street, at. midday .yesterday. ■■■ Foi ~ some weeks past, a man named' John: Cowan has -made of : as'; thejj^aine.iOut;,;of F . Sj>r/Mary/.SrtChurch..i^lt 1 ,,; i would 'seoniv.that' hfe ;llolds>views which are'-r at .variance -withi some y'cf; .those ■■■ held .by.-. Roman Catholics.,»: i Onl.v--a;'fortiiight-?or. so -' ago, he was summoned for having, at tho-*- . corner"!'of-; Ghuzneov.and.\Cuba.. t Streets; delivered ariaddress.whereby .other persons were induced to in the stroetß so as to impede the Upon conviction, ho ■was; fined 205.,'-in default seven days' imprisonment.; ,;. '''•.,';':-.'■'-,''•''•'.'',■■. '.'.,•■ '-.v A^ion''tbe;.peoplo'began \i to leave the, church' yesterday, Cowain essayed; to address-' them, with the. result that, a large crowd'. quickly/assembled,j Ho! was at .times incohereiit,",butj now and again'!'- one. could make •.--. out; remarks'; which were; of' an : in suiting nature to the,people who' were coming out"' of the: church.. Upon boing.asked by Con-;; : stable Lamb if he had'a license to", preach on the.: street, Cowan oscitedly' waved some';■ sheets of note-paper, and made off into the yard of: the Albert Hotel , where ho climbed a tree;(as he.had done on a previous.occa-sion),-and resumed .his address. When requested to ■ leavo the premises by a' reprosentative of the licensee,' Cowan replied With,, ;' n,pqir(t-blank. refusal.-: Sergeant Dale,,,who had ribw ; reached -tlie;:, scene,-instructed the,/ constable -to ascend ...the .two.' ; P.rior ]to'.- ; thisj- someone had played-a' little-water on Cowan,; but<it had, had; no' .effect.*- When , Cowan came down ho wag taken .to the; police station,, where a charge of.lunacy; was pro, ■ ferred\agaihst him, ';,>.: . r: ,'x ; '; •-,_.-.