TAR AND KAPOK.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 31 October 1919, Page 7

TAR AND KAPOK.

at PIOPIO.

The little township of Piopio My® the Star) sixteen miles from Te KuiM, has been' n a ribate of some excitement M the result of an incident winch happened there last Saturday night,_ when a motor mechanic well known in the district was e«t opou by lour men knocked about somewhat badly. and subjected to the process »t beipg sraoired with tar over a great, portion of his body and then, presumably owiiii" to scarcity of feathers, being c ' ered with Hock of kapok, evidently ahsuocto! from a> pil'ow or mattress. The a.w.l «l individual. Cecil Bndgen by na.no, h M hi, of bis garage or workshop. |t i» said .that some three week, ago Bmlgen received a warning from a fnend m Te Ktiiti to he on the qm vive, as “something was Wfy to haroej £ him.” According to the b -o> . Bridgen this warning wa s , little-heeded b v him, as he appears to have been ir y o* ft 11 S.' whon domandod admjC * „ Poine to the entrance of the to the darkness, he wa s quite unable to IdonliC WithoiH * « hir lir ' S taH^SilcV e Wm, and nWSJrf rSSi s ra i *» ot «nm had hoen Cl and 7eT «re aoclAy tiod, and. S U boon d, T^e ■'""nLU VVll-li il» '»» ten * Bri ? l !f? huA not been fullv undressed, and his .tih-mne visitors’ bad,, after securing him. disarranged his clothing liberally applied a of tar and » At 15 a.m. on Sunday, m .» ®?,. M niirrhf Bridgen had recovered if fouml a tin containin the remains of the la(, «* inc*& "STo^ Bridgen from in* tent p ri dcen Office fence, but that was all f“idg nUle to Sive even an .den of the identity of hi s assailants.