A Painful Scene.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 168, 12 July 1888, Page 2

A Painful Scene.

A scene of a painful nature—and of a description which fortunately is almoa unheard of in Gisborne—took place in Gladstone Road on Tuesday afternoon. A woman named Mrs Cahill, and a mother—one of whom no one could speak a bad word of in her sober condition—had given way to that craving of which it is almost needless to speak --in plain words she was beastly drunk. At different times during the afternoon she had behaved in a most excited manner, and occassionally in a way that she would no doubt be heartilly ashamed of once she regained her sober senses. But just at dusk her condition became uncontrollable and her tongue belched forth in such a strain that we should be sorry to refer to it were it not that more good may be attained by publicity than silence. The language used was most disgusting. With dishevelled hair, and inflamed eyes, the woman was a picture which it was painful to look upon. But if an excuse could be found for this victim of the accused drink, what must be said of those individuals whose sallies helped to create the passionate utterances? If those persons bad but a thought of what they were doing they would have hidden their faces with shame at their own conduct. In truth they were far worse than the demon possessed being whom they tried to make fun of. A couple of kind gentlemen tried to persuade the woman to take a seat beside her husband in the trap, but they were assailed in a way that not many would care to encounter. Tbs police were then forced to arrest the poor creature.