SIMPLE LIFE COLONY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 January 1929, Page 3

SIMPLE LIFE COLONY

LAST REMAINING FAMILY .1 QUARREL. EX-MAYOR AND A WHEELBARROW. LONDON. Mr Heribert E. Durham, on© of the founders of the simple life colony run on communal lines at ivelling, Nor. folk, was summoned with* his two sons at Holt recently for assaulting Mrs Reeves. The colony was formed on twenty acres of land near Holt, ans huts and "bungalows were built. Eventually the members dispersed, but Mr Durham and his family and Mrs Reeves remained. "CALL WW YOUR APES." Mr Steward, prosecuting, said as Mrs Reeves was going llwimo tyy aj road belonging to the Durhams, Mrs Reeves said to Mrs Durham: "You bad better call off your apes," meaning, Mr Durham, and. his sons. Durham butted into her back with such force that she fell on her face. He then, it was" alleged, took a stick and beat her mercilessly. His sons brought' U'p an old barrow and tried to lift her into it, although she was a woman of about list'. They failed and tried to march her off the place. Mrs Reeves, giving evidence, said she was an ex-Mayoress of St. Paneras and had held various positions under the Government. She had been twice assaulted by the Durbans but 1 had not taken action. COMMUNISTIC DOCTRINES. •Mr Keefe, for the defence: Who is the superintendent of the colony?— The man, I suppose, who is trying to carry out Bolshevik Communistic doctrines. Is that Mr E. B. Reeves?—Oh no. Mr, Keefe said there had been proceedings with regard to the land between Mr Reeves and the Durhams. and it was they who needed protection. Mrs Durham said that! Mrs Reeves Itried to strike her. Mr Durham and his sons said when they tried t 0 put Mrs Reeves off their premises sh e threw herself to the ground. They denied striking blows with a stick. The case was dismissed.