Late December, in Bridgwater, Somerset, Western Province, a middle-aged man named Thomas Wharnton, going home from work shortly after midnight, was set upon by youths. These knifed him, stripped him, spitted him, basted him, carved him, served him--all openly and without shame in one of the squares of the town. A hungry crowd clamoured for hunks and slices, kept back--that the King's Peace might not be broken--by munching and dripping greyboys.