The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Saturday 9 May 1885, page 29
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THE
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J.
one
was sent to gaol.
the Tabernacle, Johns^-stwet,
DoSrom
their
SfJrov
have dedared
Sn
J5f."ch
his followers
of forcibly recovering
the boUding.
made, aa the
attempt, however,
Mr. Thompson, kept a
landlord,
Sad body of
wm
"
men
to guard the Tabernacle.
that he would preach at
Sunday, and & large crowd
CTorie advertised
Tabernacle on
11 a.m., but Jit.
assembled in. front about
In
a boot factory.
in
held his service
nowie
iCi
he ^assembled his
rte
evening,'
however,
of the Tabernacle with
foHowert in front
in procession
Itehted torches, and marched
streets, followed by a
iSftoneh
the
of
some
8,000 persons,
disorderly crowd of 2,000 or
pelted the police with stones, Ihebelmets
who
Eourke and Crowe being
Constables
nf
missiles.
procession
The
with
and
an
attempt
tabernacle,
returned to the
hold a religious service or
to
made
was
ground alongside; but
meeting on the vacant
preacher, and he gave
the
jostled
the crowd
battered
np
the attempt.
,
,
Fitaoy Police Court, Mr.
On Monday, at the
his followers, named John
Dowie and four of
Wellington, George March,
Norriflb, John
charged with a
Martin,
were
and Herbert
of the bye-law regulating pro
violation
this being Mr. Dowie's second
cessions,
for the
Mr. Lewis, who prosecuted
offence.
uphold
corporation, called upon the bench to
Dowie that be couTd
the law and teach Mr.
it at defiance.
He had persistently
not set
and
only the previous
bye-law,
the
broken
riotous assemblage.
evening he bad caused a
proved, Mr. Dowie
The case having been
insisted upon his right to obey the will of
his Master
of man.
as
God rather than
told him to go out into the highways and
fie would persist, therefore, in
passive resistance to what he con
sidered an unjust law. Mr. Cowie, the chair
that the bye-law had been
man, remarked
the Supreme Courts and the
upheld
in
twice
inflict the
Bench had no alternative but to
The
penalty of £20 with three guineas costs.
byeways.
giving a
if
the
asked whether
other defendants were
Bench dealt leniently with them would they
promise to abstain from going in procession
but they all
until they obtained permission,
declined to give such promise^ and were fined
£5'and one guinea costs each.
then placed in the witness
was
and asked to show cause why he shonld
not go to gaol for non-compliance with an
a fine of five
to pay
order of tne Court
breach of the
for
a
previous
and
guineas
costs
He made a
bye-law regulating processions.
off
statement, admitting that ha had sold
all his
chattels
the payment
evade
to
oi the fine, and threw himself upon the
If they wanted
consideration of the Bench.
their pound of flesh they would find 14 stone
in him.
The Bench unanimously ordered
Mr. Dowie
one month's imprisonment* and
Mr. Dowie
box,
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