A GIPSIES MOT.
BEARS TURNED LOOSE.
Exciting scenes -were witnessed on Mosley Common, near' Worsloy, Manchester, late one Saturday night. A party of fifty or sixty gipsies, supposed to have been driven from 'Liverpool, who had pitched their tents near the roadside an Mosley Common, and 'began rioting and-fighting among themselves. '■ A crowd of several hundred persons, mostly colliers, living on Mosley Common and in Booths town amd Ellesbrook, gathered in the camp, attracted by the extraordinary scene caused by the fighting van dwellers. . During the excitement two bears belonging to the gipsies wine set loose, but ]i fortunately they were quickly secured. The villagers, after threatening to upset the caravans') ultimately drove the amwelcome visitors off. the common. A guurd of villagers J remained on the scene until three o'clock next morning to prevent the gipsies return-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12401, 24 October 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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138A GIPSIES MOT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12401, 24 October 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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