ARMED FARMER
RESISTANCE TO POLICE IN BRITAIN AFTER REFUSAL TO OBEY PLOUGHING ORDER. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON. July 23. After holding police and firemen at bay for eighteen hours in a barricaded farmhouse, an armed farmer, Raymond Warden, aged 66, of Hampshire, was sent to hospital seriously wounded. The police sought to eject Warden, who allegedly refused to plough up five acres of his 50-acre farm. Warden barricaded himself inside the house, and when the police called on him to surrender, threw tear gas canisters through windows and proceeded to break down doors, shots came from within. Two police officers fell, wounded in the legs and arms. Reinforcements arrived and the house was forcibly entered, when the police found Warden seriously injured, with a gun at his side. It is reported that Warden had not left the farm for a single day for half a century.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400724.2.52
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
156ARMED FARMER Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in