BRAVE OLD LADY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 9

BRAVE OLD LADY.

A remarkable instance of bravery and presence of mind on the part of an old lady has occurred at Eaton, a village near Norwich, reports the recent English papers. Mrs. Ann Reeve, the postmistress, a woman of sixty-eight, waa sorting the mail-bag about half-past four in the morning when she heard noises in the shop and saw two men ransacking the drawers. She at once pushed one of them aside and was going to tackle tho other when she was shuck to the ground with a violent blow from somo instrument, which cut open her "forehead. She got to her kcet, however, rushed out ci the 6liop, and, after locking the door on tho strangers, rou.sed tho whole village. The house was quickly surrounded by tho villagers. One of the two men was caught in tho shop. The other tried to force his way through the roof. He made a hple and put his head through, only to find one of the villagers standing guard with a thick stick. He was warned not to come through, and on persisting received a blow which sent him to the floor below. .'lhe villagers handed bgth men, securely bound with coids, to the police.