A MAYOR TWICE LOCKED UP.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 124, 24 April 1895, Page 3

A MAYOR TWICE LOCKED UP.

• —♦ A remark. incident happened somo little time back, whon Mr John Christie, Mayor of the borough of Browns andScarsdalo, was twice locked up by Constable Walsh. Tho Mayor states that at about 11.30 one evening lie saw Consuible Walsh arrest a young man for drunkenness. Another man came up, and asked the constable to let him go. Walsh declined to do so, and the man said "You can tako him, but you can't mo; you are not gocd enough" Constablo Walsh released his prisoner and ran after the other man, who twice tripped tho constable. The Mayor accosted the Constablo, asking him to release tho man, and he would hold himself liable for his appearance at the Court after the charge eheet was signed. Constable Walsh would not do so, and tho three walkod to the station, and after the sheet was made out tho prisoner was put in gaol. The mayor protested on the ground that the man was not drunk and that he (the mayor) was ready to bail him. An altercation ensued resulting in the mayor being locked up. Mr Bonnet, J.P., was sent for, and bail was allowed. Mr Christie's wife and several citizens were present, and tho mayor formaPy charged constable Walsh with drunkenness. An altercation again ensued, and the mayor was again put in tho lock-up only to be bailed out immediately. Constable Walsh is very reticent on the matter, preferring to report to headquarters. He, however, states that, when ho wished to enter the charge against his prisoner the mayor objected, statiug that ho was his superior.