BAILIFFS SURPRISE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 6 January 1910, Page 2

BAILIFFS SURPRISE.

RUSSIAN FARMER LETS FEROCIOUS WOLVES LOOSE ON MAN IN POSSESSION.

How a malicious Russian, one Balouschine, a farmer, of Kosloff, made matters exceedingly unpleasant for a broker's man is related by the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris Petit Journal.

The latter was ushered into the farmer's office, and left there. The man heard strange and disquieting sound from the courtyard—the howling of beasts and the cracking of a whip. He therefore picked up his papers and prepared to depart. Before he could do so, however, a cage was thrust into the room, from the open door of which two ferocious wolves leaped. x T ihe i.broker hurriedly placed the table between the wolves and himself,- and took up a fork, which by great good luck he found near at hand. Holding the fork in front of mm, he retreated towards the window, one of the panes of which he broke just as a wolf bounded upon him. The animal was caught on the fork-prongs, and the bailiff made his escape through the window. The farmer and his servants have been arrested^