MISPLACED SYMPATHY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1171, 5 July 1911, Page 6

MISPLACED SYMPATHY.

SCENE IN WILLIS STREET. The manner in which a section of t crowd loses its head and misplaces ita sympathy was illustrated by one of those scenes which not infrequently occur in. a city. A man who was truculently drunk in Willis Street and making himself a nuisance was arrested by a constable, but, as lie resi-led with some show of violence, he had perforce to be handcuffed until a, cab arrived in which ho could Iμ comfortably transports to the station. The trouble drew a crowd of two or three hundred people in a fe.w minutes, during which time the constable was subjected to severe abuse on the part of a section, of the crowd, standing a good deal more than the average man would submit to. One individual was most persistent, and looked like causing trouble until the constable threatened that if ho did not keep quiet he would get the handcuffs as well, after which admonition the man subsided. At length a cab arrived, and the drunken man was bundled iu amidst tho hoots of a number of people who should hav« known lietter. The constable is to bo commended for exercising so much restraint undy exasperating circumstances.