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cofloctora of signaturoa,
The demonstration was thus organised and may have
had personal or political motives. The police seemed
to have action satisfactorily
in dispersing the
crowd on the second and third nights and a police
prosecution was broucht at the Petty, 3eoaionm1 though
the defendants were merely bound over to keep the
peace. The occasion of the disturbance was more
the desire to colobrate Ladysmith in an exciting manner
than any provocation offered by the victims.
At Stratford there was likewise disorder oil three
consecutive nights* - 2nd, 3rd and loth 2 arch, taking the
form of processions which attacked the promises of a Ar.
Buller and auctioneer.
(1)
On the second and third
nights dotachnents of police prevented much da taro.
According to the Stratford on Avon Herald it was common
knowledge that the rioters had been incited by ncnbcrs
of the Union Club where a nnokitig concert to celebrate
(1) Stratford upon Avon fle rn1as 9th March 1900.
I cr. indebted to fir. -E. p. Thompson for the useful
muggestion that the throe niChto in a row attack on
unpopular persona may derive from an old country folk
custom this would explain the three niehto attacks in
the country districts of Iidburct and Stratford and the
single attacks in the larger towns,