AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT.
PATROL HUSTLED BY A CROWD. REVOLVERS DRAWN.
AUCKLAND, August 15. AH leave was up at 12.30 last night.. Towards midnight a patrol was busy getting stragglers aboard. The treatment of one drunken sailor by the patrol was resented by a crowd. As the man fell down unconscious, the spectators assumed ia decidedly hostile attitude, hooting and hustling the patrol. \ The officer in charge ordered his men to draw revolvers. Affairs were looking very serious when a large party of local police arrived on the scene, drove the crowd back, and escorted, the patrol and their prisoner to the wharf.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13726, 15 August 1908, Page 5
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102AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13726, 15 August 1908, Page 5
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