THIRTY-FIVE GIPSIES POISONED.
/ TERRIBLE REVENGE BY. CROATIAN, ' ' FARMERS. ■ | -The plague,-of: gipsies in Croatia and' Hungary, has resulted in terrible reprisals by ■the formers, _wlio havo suffered greatly from the depredations of theso marauders, - Nineteen gipsies, comprising an entire , band, • died, suddenly, near . Tompokevac; Croatia, after eating jiortions. of. - a cowwhich they found dead )n- ; a forest. It was ;after\vards found/that, the body of tho oow was poisoned. ', : In,a neighbouring district sixteen gipsies belonging to'another band-died after eating 'hares which had been 'poisoned by the farmer§' and left .lying in the fields. Both-; Croatia and Hungary aro overrun .with'' gipsies, /who rob wayfar.qrs, levy blaclimail, burii lonely farmhouses,' and aro often .accused, of/stealing children. ,Tho authorities jiave been unable to de.port them, and imprisonment apparently has no effect on them.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 10
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