A Mysterious Affair.
Mysterious Stoning.
The police at fault.
Considerable excitement prevailed in Dundonald Street on Tuesday evening when it became known that a house was being pelted with stones and nobody was able to discover whence or how the missiles came. Needless to say the more superstitious amongst the morbid crowd that assembled in the vicinity attributed the stone throwing to something supernatural, and all kinds of guesses and sayings were freely made.
However, there was some ground for these speculations inasmuch as all efforts to discover the stone throwers proved futile. The aid of the Constabulary was invoked, and a number of plain clothes men and detectives surrounded the house. Not even the presence of these guardians of the Peace daunted the unseen hand, for the pelting which commenced shortly after 5 p.m. continued unceasingly until 10 o’clock at night when the ‘jumbie’ as some of the bystanders called the stone thrower, having other work to do turned his or her attention to something else… perhaps to sleep.
In any case, jumbie or no jumbie, the residents especially the ladies, terribly frightened; and hid themselves behind hermetically sealed doors during the time the stone throwing was going on. The house selected for the perpetration of this act was the residence of Mr JR Lyon in Dundonald Street. The whole affair is still a mystery but it is possible that the Police will be able to solve the problem and introduce the “jumbie” to His Worship Mr HP Ganteaume.
Mirror (Trinidad and Tobago), 10th August 1916.