EARL AND POACHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

EARL AND POACHER.

PROVED A HERO. A good story was told by the Earl of Eesex at BisKop's Stortford about a poacher whose operations were usually confined to a large estate in the neighbourhood of a Y.M.C.A. hut. " When the war broke out," said the earl, " I suppose that the poacher recognised that ha was an evil-doer, and that the best thing he could do was to turn over a new leaf and join the army. He went to the front, and was somewhat badly wounded. He came back, and, as fate would have it, the very hospital he was sent to was the house on the estate which had been his happy hunting ground for many years past. "His nurse asked him the other day if he had ever been in these parts before, and he replied, 'Well, miss, the place seems strangely familiar to me.' "The last I heard of that man was that he was having a good dinner off rabbits, which in his poaching days he looked upop. as hit own private property;''