FARMER'S FIGHT WITH GIPSIES.
BEATEN BY RAIDERS IN- HIS OWN MEADOW.. _ ;.■;" -, ; LONDON, Augusi 20. ' Mr Jackman, a farmer of Eldenbridge, Kent, was attacked and brutally beaten by, gipsies on Saturday morriing./ .-. ./.. ■ ' Mr v Jackman found a party - % .'0f.« three men and three women m his- meadow gathering * mushrooms and ordered theni off. The men. attacked him with ; theii: fists, but Mr Jackman, who is a| man of unusual size and strength, was getting the best of the fight when the women pulled stakes from a hedge and belabored him with them. ■■ VVThey left him m an almost. unconscious oondition. After a chase by the police, one man was captured near Four Elms, and four more of the party were -caught .later near Oxted, where they/*- will be brought before the magistrates, to-day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 9
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