EVICTED IN HIS COFFIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9142, 25 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

EVICTED IN HIS COFFIN.

A TIPPERARY COMEDY.

Ax extraordinary eviction is reported from Cashel, County Tipperary. A tenant named Frank Dwyer refused to give up possession of his house to the representatives of his late landlord, contending that the latter had left him in the house together with a coffin, which he kept beside his bed in his room. Dwyer barricaded his house against eviction. On the evictors'appearing, Dwyer shouted that they could not evict him out of the coffin ; that he would go into the coffin and they must put him out, coffin and all. After some further parley, Dwyer agreed to give up possession, but only on condition that he should be evicted whilst in the coffin. The key of the door was then thrown from the roof, and the bailiff and police entered. They found Dwyer in the coffin, wearing a tall silk hat, around which was twined an old white veil. Owing to the stairs being too narrow, the party had to lower the coffin, with its living inmate, through one of the windows. As the coffin descended Dwyer loudly protested against his illegal eviction, the large crowd assembled being convulsed with laughter. As soon as the coffin reached the ground the boys raised it up, and Dwyer, sitting upright, was carried round the town.