CLERGYMAN BESIEGED.
ISLINGTON’S LEVY OF 17s 8d in £. LONDON, October 3. Having declared thot lie cannot pay the rate of 17s Sd in the. pound levied by the Islington Council, which thereupon issued a distress warrant and then obtained an order for bis committal to prison, the Rev G. B. Borrill barricaded hi# residence, and is now defying the efforts of detectives to arrest him. They watch his house in shifts throughout the week, as they aie not allowed, under the rules, to hatter their way in. The siege is raised on Sundays when Air Borrill is immune from arrest. The domestic fort is revictualled regularly through the kindness of the neighbours. Goods are pulled up by a rope to the windows. Air Borrill, who claims to be psychic, says that detectives are not his only visitors. Mo has welcomed angel friends from the land of spirits, who gave him messages of encouragement.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16553, 12 October 1921, Page 6
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