GIPSY JUDGE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1785, 25 June 1913, Page 8

GIPSY JUDGE.

MR. JUSTICE EVE AND HIS CARAVAN. • When Mr. Bertram! Spencer, a gentleman caravanneir, was summoned before tho magistrate at Tiverton, in Devonshire, for an alleged obstruction with his caravan, tho magistrate's clerk, Mr. J. E. Cockraii', remarked that 0110 of his Majesty's judges had a caravan, and had toured with it in tho west of England. ■Mr. Cockran was referring to Mr. Justice Eve, who has an estate on Dartmoor, and who has spent more than one long vacation touring in the west in his caravan. Mr. Justice Eve drives his own horse, and has more than 0110.0 been mistaken for a gipsy, lie cooks his own meals find cleans his own boots while 011 tour. Sometimes ho wears a bowler hat, and sometimes a cap, and often 110 may bo seen with a short pipe in his mouth". His van is built "especially liglit for tho steep hills of the west country, and 110 travels at a. rate of from four to five miles an hour. Since he began to tour in this way tome years ago, caravanning has become vot.v popular in the west of England. Both Exnioor and Dartmoor have bnen visited in this way by a number of distinguished people. The season is not yet in full swing, but many caravans have already been seen. As a rule tlio rnr.avnnnors aro not so independent as Mr. Justice Eve, and frequent demands aro made 011 tho farmers.