GIPSY MASSACRE IN SPAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2052, 27 July 1885, Page 2

GIPSY MASSACRE IN SPAIN.

The Madrid correspondent of the Petit Mamilkii relates a striking instance of the intensity of family quarrels in Spain,! Abouta yearago'agipsy named Moralis was assassinated at'Zerza, in the province of Oacerai, by one of his comrades, named Silra. The latter to. iivdue course tried and condemned to, death; but his neoution did not satisfy the .vengearic# of the victim's family. There had been, ill-feel-ing between the two families for three years, but there had been na.open quarrel until the murder of Moralis. Soon' after the execution of the murderer, which took place last month, the two families met on their return from.the fair near the town of Caceres. They had their mules and cattle with them, There were about fifty on each side, including women and Jftildren. A regular pitched battle ■ enSpd, revolvers, knives, and sticks being freely used by the men, while the women Employed their nails with considerable y, andthp children threw stones indiscriminately. The result of the struggle: was that the heads ofthetwo families wereboth killed, and two of the women and several of the cluldren. There were ten or twelve wounded, and the bodies of the dead were horribly iputilated. If the mounted polico had not interrupted the fight, there would have been many more lives lost, Several of the mules were killed, and the baggage of the two families was strewn about in such disorder that tlje road fornearly half a mile looked as if alarge army had beaten a retroat along it.