SCENE AT A CHURCH.

Western Star, Issue 944, 2 May 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

SCENE AT A CHURCH.

A most ridiculous scene occurred at a church at-Newcastle not long since. A .policeman was passing the church'as a gentleman came out. The man jocosely accosted the policeman and said he was wanted inside. The policeman thought there was some trouble in the church and neat in. The Sexton seeing the policeman, said “ Come right in. here." and he took him to a pew, sad waived his hand as much as to say, " Help yourself. 5 ’ There was another man in the pew, a deacon with a sinister expression as! the policeman thought, and be supposed that fie .wu .the man they wanted arrested, so he tapped the deacon on the arm, and told him to dome along* The deacon turned pale and edged along'to I get away, when the policeman took him by the collar and jerked him into the aisle, i The deacon struggled, thinking ttie policeman was crazy, but he was dragged along. Many of the congregation thought the deacbn had been doing something wrong, and some of them got behind the deacon and holpedtho officer to fire him out. The policeman saw the man who told him ha was wanted in the church, and asked him what the charge was against the deacon and ho didn t know. The sexton was nest appealed to, and he didn’t know, and finally the prisoner was asked what it was all about and he didn’t know. The policeman was asked what he arrested the man for, and he didn’t know, and after a while the matter was explained; and" the policeman, who had to arrest somebody, took tue man into custody who told him he was wanted in the church, and he was fined five dollars and costs. The man now says fit will aeyor try to convert * {poficemw iftpi