POLICE FIRED ON
RECALCITRANT FARMER
18-HOUR ARMED DEFENCE IN
BARRICADED HOUSE
(Received July 24, 9.10 a.m.)
LONDON, .July 23
. After. holding police' arid firemen at bay for 18 hour'sin' a barricaded farmhouse, an' armed farmer, Raymond Warden,; aged 66, ; of Hampshire, was admitted:to hospital seriously wounded. He later died. .
The police sought to eject Warden, who is alleged to have refused to plough up five acres of his 50-acre, farm. He . barricaded himself inside the house, and. when the police called on him to surrender and also threw teargas canisters through the "windows and proceeded to break down : the : doors, shots came from within; Two police officers fell wounded- in the legs and arms. Reinforcements arrived, and the house was forcibly entered. [
The police found.. Warden seriously injured, with .a gun at his side.
It is reported that Warden had hot left the farm for a single day in half a century.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 10
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