FIGHT WITH TRAMPS.
EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT. Three tramps who attacked the occupants of a lonely Derbyshire farm got a very warm reception, fell into the hands of the* police, and at Alfredton Petty Sessions were each sentenced to three months' hard labour. The men were charged with demanding money with threats and assaulting Mr. Fred Spencer, of Hollins Green Farm, and also with using throats at the residence of Stuben Edge farm. One evening the men called at the farm, and when Mr. F. Spencer went out they asked for assistance, which was refused. They became abusive, and one of them picked up a hedge-stake and aimed a blow at Mr. Spencer's head. He dodged the blow and struck his assailant in the mouth, knocking out some of his teeth. Arming themselves with sticks, the other men then joined in the attack on the farmer, whose sons came to his assistance, and soon a pitched battle was in progress. The Spencers were reinforced by the arrival of a neighbouring farmer named Hanbury with a pitchfork, and when Mrs. Spencer fetched her husband's gun, and also threatened the intruders with a revolver, while one of the sons set a big dog loose, they beat a retreat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15252, 15 March 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)
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