GIPSIES' BATTLE.
THIRTEEN DEATHS RESULT FROM A QUARREL. A regular battle took place on the night of July 29th between two bands of gipsies attending the horse market at Friedeck, Silesia, Austria. The trouble began in a quarrel between two gipsies belonging to rival bands over the sale of a horse. The quarrel resulted in one of the men shooting the other dead in the garden of a beerhouse. The other gipsies at once joined in, and fought fiercely with each other with knives, revolvers, and other weapons. Eleven of the gipsies liad been killed before the police approached to interfere. 1 All the gipsies who were not hors de comoat then sprang into the river with the object of swimming across. Two were so -exhausted by their wounds that they sa i!c and were drowned. The others, when they reached the other side, found that their vans with - and children were in the iia idi of the police. The vans were fj j id to contain a miniature arsenal of weapons and a large hoard of stolen goods.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2919, 15 September 1908, Page 3
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179GIPSIES' BATTLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2919, 15 September 1908, Page 3
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