EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A SYNAGOGUE.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, September 25. A case in which a great deal of interest was taken by the Jewish residents of this city came before the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day. A man, named H. E. Nathan, has been for nearly a year occupying a seat in the synagogue to which be had no right, and was deaf to all remonstrances. At length, the officers of the church would put up with it no longer, and on the festival of the new year called in a constable to eject him. The constable refused to do so, and the President of the congregation, with soma assistance, did it himself. The fracas, as may be supposed, caused a great scandal among the people of the Hebrew faith. Nathan entered an action for assault against the President, M. Harris, and also against C. Louisaon, but the Bench held they acted quite rightly, and dismissed the case, giving costs against Nathan.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6690, 26 September 1882, Page 2
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