Dr Warne and the cockroaches

摘要

It was half-past three in the morning when the police commis sioner heard the crowd approaching. He got out of bed. His wife sent a child out to get help but it was too late. They kicked his door in. He jumped from an upstairs window towards the safety of a neighbouring house but missed his footing and fell. A gang of 200 men in the street below seized him and beat him with clubs while his wife hid inside, cowering in an oven.