GIRLS FIGHT POLICE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14326, 17 October 1910, Page 6

GIRLS FIGHT POLICE.

— HAT l'im A.\"D -.iCISSOIia. PABJS -HOP WRECKED. Tlie mxliuettci had their iir?t brush with the police t-c-'luy. wrote The Far.s ;.r»! r»»:.pon:|';ut- '•! [» l/md-m paper Inst namtil. Th' a iifiuv. "t : UK-r-j p^3.•ove r"-.i.:t.aii'-c, iu\;eh-:| the I'll'' Wcamur, o')0 .strong. Their success wrtvS lo surprise and overwhelm two who were doling on ]*< 1 11?t : duty, all . unconscious of the coming storm. in they entered I hi* establishment, the proprietor of which has made himself especially ohuoxioua to them in their strike. Forcing a way into the shop t h-ey at once >ot aboutwrecking the place. .Fur a time hey had the hold eniireiy U> them. m'l\i-s. ;«iit; iike partdfniouium reigned thi\Hi.nh»u;{; the building. Keinioreomem-; oi polioc were hurra ii to the scene, anil on their arrival the iitrhi became furious. Stock-jobber* on the .-ten* of the JiouiiO abandoned their « ccopat-iou anil watched the hti ugjile, now and thou sending a cheer acres-s the road as tile gin* showed more than their usual piucK and reckdariU-. Ihe electric i-ats were iieid up hy ihe hi cr>-ud tiiat withered in tlie streei. Tlie iiir!.-; topght iurinu.sly. Hatpins, waist-beils, ai:d >ci>soi"--. were their chiei weapons, and these iliev u<ed Irec'ly. at-tl, in .some cases, with s;.-r.ou-> cii'ecis. Some struck wildly ;.t the hands and faces of the pdiei'iucu who were, gradually pesses.-ion <-i the situatio.n. imitating the V> (.'stn.un.vtc'.' wo?na/} sufi raidsts, <-iun^: to the iron railings cf the Ihiur.-e. J J erspi]-i2iy; prJicemej) wiiiiout their hats aud null torn uuijonits, and (-veu with laess au<[ hantls. draped the from their sir-. iiLih.dds. Alter mucii provocation they to h'se their tempers, and aiter a s lw\v of roughness thcto was a <luuit -of in-tligu-\tu)u from the \\av<-hiiig" crowds, wlio were quite ready 10-joiu in the riot. li was not until the police inspector threatened t-j call out a i.re engine to pump water 011 the girls ai:d the i-rowd tha; the road was rloai-ed. Six of Ihe girls wore anv-tod. and wore cairied off in the arms oi' the p.;lu-e. as I hoy sleadfastiy refused 10 -,\aik. Jli.m iif iliem wore hadiy bniis. ;l. (If Ihe poliee lew escaped some woucl from ibe liarpins and se:sso:s. and one man was so badly stabbed m the eye that he may loso his sighr.