AT THE PISTOL'S MOUTH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9302, 31 July 1908, Page 1

AT THE PISTOL'S MOUTH.

A MAN CHASE.

STRIKERS' VIOLENCE,

In the vicinity of Liverpool Street the first suggestion of violence manifested itself.

The "Daily Telegraph" says that there was a swaying of the mass of uniformed men and civilians, a parting in the middle, and down the centre of Liverpool Street ran a well-dressed man, followed by a yelling crowd of pursuers. Mud^ eggs and fruit 'flew through the air like debris being scattered in a railway cutting at the explosion of a charge of raek-a-rock, and exclamations . more expressive than polite were hurled at the fleeing individual. Incidentally the howling mob counselled him in forcible terms, and to a running accompaniment of missiles, to "Git I" Such epithets as "pimp' J and " blackleg " were sandwiched into some expressions characteristic of the striker, and* the rising indignation of the mob foreboded a bad time for the fugitive. Just when things might have gone anyhow, the object of the dtrikers' attention slipped his hand into his hip pocket and turned on his pursuers. He raised his right hand, and the mob held off, for glittering in the sunlight waß a revolver, and the man who htld it looked as if he might use it tf occasion demanded. Then he slowly wj»>k fid back in the direction of the Cen -Ml Police Court, the crowd hooting l>w t and making offensive observations.