WHEN the playwright Ena Lamont Stewart died, aged 93, in 2006, prominently mentioned in her obituaries was her classic play, Men Should Weep. A searing portrait of Glasgow tenement life during the 1930s Depression, it was a success in Glasgow in 1947, staged by Unity Theatre at the Athenaeum, and then in London. But she had to wait a long time for the play to be rediscovered – until 1982, in fact, when it was revived in a production directed by Giles Havergal as part of 7:84 Scotland’s Clydebuilt programme of lost working-class masterpieces. Reviewing the revival, our critic, Mary Brennan, wrote: “This finely structured masterly study of poverty in ‘30s Glasgow uses the different reactions of the women in the family as a prism reflecting not only the physical miseries inflicted by poverty but also the mental and spiritual corrosion which deprivation precipitates.”
Mar. 1—A city man is facing multiple charges after allegedly leading Manchester police on a chase Sunday night before crashing into a rest area gas pump in Hooksett, officials said. According to Manchester police, around 7:30 p.m. Sunday officers responded to the Mall of New Hampshire at 1500 So. Willow St. for a report of an unwanted subject. Upon arrival officers spoke with mall staff .
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Rochester Police Arrest Man Allegedly Pretending to Be a Cop
Police said a man who has a history of allegedly pretending to be a police officer is being held without bail after he was arrested Sunday night on a similar charge, according to the Union Leader.
On Sunday night, police were called to Amazon Park because they had received reports of a man, later identified as Lamont Stewart, who was driving through the park allegedly threatening to arrest people.
“Officers were told Stewart was driving through the park, stopped and told residents he was an undercover police officer,” Capt. Todd Pinkham, of the Rochester police, said in an email Tuesday. “When questioned by the residents and asked to see his badge, Stewart said he did not have one, but could arrest the residents.”
ROCHESTER A Seabrook man out on bail after being charged with impersonating a police officer in Hampton was arrested over the weekend on the same charge.
Lamont Stewart, 62, was arrested by Rochester police Sunday, Feb. 21 on one count of false personation for pretending to be an “undercover police officer.
Police were called to the Amazon Park on Whitehouse Road in Rochester for reports of a suspicious man saying he was a police officer and attempting to arrest people.
According to a police affidavit, when officers arrived, they found Stewart in a Hyundai SUV with its hazard lights on.
A resident of the mobile home park told police that Stewart pulled him over saying he was an “undercover cop.” When the resident, who knew Stewart from when he lived at the park, asked for a badge, Stewart allegedly said he did not have one, but that “he had the right to arrest him.”