The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-12-19 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY FREAKS OF A " SALVATION

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THREE ; AND COL fIAGEOUS C3NDUCT 11:4

A VlOll3.

Hires few years aco. • seamen. uamed Wrier, who hal
pieviou•ly served out in the %Veit ladies, where he, a
II only rid, to my had salaamed &sue-Woke, c one home
ti Pmle. Litt [iv he he ouzel himself up with thm
groVieque body"—to use Lird Shaftesbury • words—of
rerlitouietv"" the Salvation Army.- He has he-n • cow
'Mut attendwit at the.. proom.ikottet, or 'other tb.

Mat Sits, tia they ere called, and has for some time bee&
reps/idol a. one of the " saved, " in spite of the fact th at
he has not sh rwu too great • kiadnee, to his patient wife
and Ws fire children. Joining the Salvation Army scems
to hare °pirated upon his onnewhat weakened
standing in • way that was not anteipated. It was the
last straw ; end he has succumbed Iv the excitement
which it is the nbjict of lb." to promote. Abut
a week ego it went IMO the °dice" of a gentlarnan
in this town, and demanded to see his " books."
(if C.,U1,03 ChM was rofueed, hut be was g•
trriated and iii, friends were adwiscd t look cit..' him.
Since into hiff malady ha" made itself tool, appar..lst and
on M didn't. under • e rtilleat• gives hy Dr. Turner be
was removed to the Uuiou Wirkh rule, when, b. was
Waned in Um lunatic ward. He was not einaidered
dangeroaa, or, of c fume, he could not hive hien received;
and he was •ilowni to g • into an outhouse. A. ppm as
his attendant's back was turned be Pm gni a wall and
escaped. A hue and cry was raised. sot he it's' brought
beck about seven In the evenine, aft-r tiering pant • emit
t 3 hie wife and thrown her into l's street. on Tuesday
be agtio got Deg by brcaklng the windows of tho
rain)," and • sec 'nil turn" by nailing the walls. Ito di
not get fag away upon that oxasion, having gone to his
broth.r's Me Was again brought back, and then strapped
down in bed, an operation Ii which be aninnitted gated,.
About one in the mornint however, he had freed him-
self from hie trammels, and Mr. Clarke (the master of
the Unloe), in company with his warder, went tot, his
bedroom and re-strapped him down, and he was left ate
comfortable as could be exp-eted under the ctrennutaaces.
About eleven on Wedneeday be we, visited by a number
of his relations and thbi appears to have excited
tam As aragy men generally do. he had taken an
aversion to his best friends. Wane they had left
him he appears to have been particularly happy, slapping
his hands in the recognised " Army style of *' firing
broadsides." lie wad than left (or a oloaloat by hp
att-nilant, and when he 'stunt.' it was found he hid
barr.c 01-d the door of his bedroom—if such a rat's 601.5
eSo be designated as such—by placing his botatead
against it. The smashing of tie window and shutter'
foiloiwed, ant Mr. Clarke. the master, mounted the roof
to get to the window of the 041-f 'r ills witting else—
and se " what was up " Bator", however, be could get
there Ritter bad got out of the window, on to an adj eating
roof, and fruits 5614 re eaulborWl like • cit on the tip of
the roof of one of der highest sections ric the extensive
hubdings. He was only attired in • pair of tailor's whit*
an I a blue gomnsey, and his risked feet enabled
tutu to obtain • pretty firui bold of the slippery slates. He
kept walking backwards and forward, an tvis perilous
51..wa1i..n. and defied any one to bring hint down. Flis
challen.te he rendered none the m ire inviting by pulling
off • flimsy ity 'it the 'lain, ant p lout th-in oa.lialst a
chimney...tack iii readiness for any one. who might be so
ventur, soli attvnipt to capture bite.
This op-slily got koovrn in the town. mail for some two
hours the adjoining roads war° crowded with pc •ple, whe
hail corns out for the suntisity t are—"the ma loom on tit*
U • ion." Them be aditresied at intervals, when he was
not offering up prayers in the usual style of the army-rant
tams them he inteude I to remain wit ribs was till d art
and then he could be off, and they would newer a's nies
again. At times he fo dii blearing, and sat down on the
sore Of the roof Imaqui his beck amnion the chimney
tusking hisneetf apparently comfortable, but the manner
in which he welted from end t end, and thee stood oa
the very ed.', with a fell of some Oft below him wee
simply dm ist blood-vatting. Ile hash-4m subjection'l.
awl the die 4.1 of the sped, dors was that he might have
one, and falling my thos lose his ; "but there," mid
one of the gialllen in the crowd, " poor dear, Ivehi quite
newly for heaven," II 'sever, Mr. Rieler had • "method
in his inainsp," and did not ergot the anticipate I sense.
lion,
Various mean. were taken to induce the lunatic Iv coins
d flu* po ir old !Athol* and 'wither tried to coax him
down, but in vain; lasgowine bins wins Wired of, out this
was hardly practiceble. At Mat, about one o'clock. mom
Plucky townsmen—Messrs. George and Tom Pierey, and
Mr. Pine (late chief boatman in charge of the omietguard
autim)—res Awed the p 'or fellow must be get down by
some mean. or another.
Accordingly, ladder, were btc...oght. and ring being reared
ive•inet tko ludo of the house. Mr. Tom Pieter P''reavied
to m mot it. The lonatic at 'inc throw •woy • pec of
shoe be bad in hi. band. and na isle for an adjenine roof.
Trio" was • double one, and loiters hawing been sir.vimiele
pins den either side, lig wee tbui pr •tty well In Pio bends
of hi. pursuers Ile attempi.nt • dying jump trim one
roof to the other, but mimed hie mark, ant fel into the
gutter between the two. Ili. brodt-r and the Magee.
Pierey and P C. Reeks, were at ono' upon him, ant after
a brief, but ewvere, struggle, .he unfortunate man was
handcuffed. Very much .xneustied, he was then brought
down in the arms of four nun, by means of • couple itif
Imid-re pieced side by aide.
And nor , primps, we may as well say that it hi a
mercy we have i ot a somewhat tragic ending to the affair
to chronicle. One of the ladders was in • decidedly Minol.
dated conditioii, and Mr. Pine shouted out Iranian as to
its stem These, however, were disregarded, and happily
the party got down safely. A short time at te.werig,
however, one of the inmate" was mine it, when it broke,
and the man fell heavily to the eroand, sustaining • severe
Taken into the Unto°, Rioter was given a omieue drink
of milk, which he appeared heart ly to enjoy ; and, miter
• little re.t, he was taken iff in i.e CUSS.KIy of Sergeant
Be icon. P.C. Reeks., ant Kr. Young, the relieving offie.r,
to °hermit:tater Asylum.
On the Tu-sday we learn the man Rieke broke half-a-
dozen p.m in the lunatic ward, overpowerad the warder.
and would have sever ly ill-Vestal him had not another
Fanatic, known as "Sugar" Berms., rushed to his assist owe.
Barnes, however, received some severe wounds over Dm
head from a stool the lunatic wielded.
He mei yery quietly on his foamy to Chartaisotor.