Now we know the whole shameful story: how as that one man stood alone, on his way to claim his right, alone so that he could do no violence, fourteen men, said the Central News, police and ushers, flung themselves upon him, pushed and pulled him down the stairs, smashing in their violence the glass and wood of the passage door; how he struck no blow, but used only his great strength in passive resistance--" Of all I have ever seen, I never saw one man struggle with ten like that," said one of the chiefs, angrily disdainful of the wrong he was forced to do--till they flung him out into Palace Yard.

An eye-witness thus reported the scene in the Press: "The strong, broad, heavy, powerful frame of Mr.Bradlaugh was hard to move, with its every nerve and muscle strained to resist the coercion.
Bending and straining against the overpowering numbers, he held every inch with surprising tenacity, and only surrendered it after almost superhuman exertions to retain it.

The sight--little of it as was seen from the outside--soon became sickening.

The overborne man appeared almost at his last gasp.

The face, in spite of the warmth of the struggle, had an ominous pallor.