The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-12-13 00:00:00

MILITARY DISTURBANCES AT
COLCHESTER.

A serious military disturbance occurred at Col-
chester late on Saturday night. Recently a popular
sergesnt-major in the Artillery was reduced, owing
to a report privately furnished to the Colonel, and
the men of the battery suspecting that the report
emanated from a publican named Wade, whose house
is near the barracks, determined upon revenge.
Accordingly, on gaturday evening about 50 of them
assembled opposite to the house, and, taking posses-
sion of a brick stack, hurled the bricks through the
windows., breaking not only the glass, but the sashes
and var'ons large mirrors and other property inside.
Before they left they had thoroughly wrecked the
place, and so speedily was the work accomplished
that the police knew nothing of the matter till it was
over.

About the only force some people have is the force
of habit.
"Who was the straightest man in the Bible?"
"Joseph." "Why ?" "Because ,Pharaoh made a
ruler -• him."
Peter Macnally, a lame Dublin attorney, wahted tc
be enrolled in a volunteer corps. "You'd never do,
Peter," said the officer to whom he applied for
admission. "The more we told you to march, dip
more you'd halt.-"

rorliUlUEte.

DESPERATE FIGHT WITH A POACHER.
On Saturday, at the Guildford County Bench,
there were heard summonses against an elderly but
stalwart man, named Thomas Came, of Worplesdon,
near Guildford, for unlawfully carrying a gun under
the Night Poaching Prevention Act, and also for
assaulting the police in the execution of their duty,
on the Ist inst. Cross-summonses were also heard
against two police - constables (Tytherleigh and
West), young officers of the Surrey constabulary, who
were charged with violently assaulting Carne at the
same time. While on duty at two o'clock in the
morning, the constables heard the report of firearms,
and in a few minutes came upon Carne, who had with
him a double-barrelled gun. As they were approach-
ing him, he said, "If you come near me, I'll blow
your brains out," at the same time pointing the gun
at Police-constable West. The officer rushed at him,
and succeeded in wresting the weapon from him.
Came violently kicked the officer and disabled him
for a time. Police-constable Tytherleigh closed with
him, threw him to the ground, and succeeded in
handcuffing him. Being a powerful man, Came
succeeded in picking up the gun, which he again
pointed at police-constable West, who was lying
prostrate on tho ground. Tytherleigh drew his staff,
knocked the gun from the man's hand, and closed
with him, and while they T7ere struggling West had
sufficiently recovered to assist in ;the arrest. On
searching the prisoner, whom they then recognised,
they found on him a hag with two dead but
warm rabbits, also a flask of powder. When on the
way to the railway station at Ash West ran in
advance for the purpose of catching a luggage train
by which to convey the prisoner to Guildford.
Having got out of sight, the prisoner refused to be
taken, and struck Tytherleigh on the head. A
desperate and bloody struggle ensued, the prisoner
using his hands, his feet, and his teeth, and the officer
striking with his truncheon. They both fell to the
ground three or four times, and when the prisoner
got uppermost he threatened to murder the con-
stable, who succeeded in getting hold of the chain of
the handcuffs, and in the darkness striking several
blows, which fell on the prisoner's head. After wait-
ing in vain for some time at the railway station, West
returned in search of the prisoner and his comrade,
the latter of whom he found lying almost insensible,
the prisoner hftving pprl Tytherleigh was tftlen
to the nearest house, alid West afterwards went in
search of the prisoner, whom he saw about six o'clock
in the morning, still handcuffed, and with a long iron
file in his hand. The encounter was renewed, the
constable warding off blows from the file with his
truncheon, with which he eventually disabled and
secured the prisoner, who the same day was admitted
to the hospital at Guildford suffering from a fractured
arm, five or six scalp wounds, and other injuries,
which confined him there for two or three weeks.
The constable Tytherleigh was also unable to do duty,
for nineteen days in consequence of his injuries. The
magistrates thought the case a serious one, and com-
mitted both Carne and the constables for trial.