The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

DESPERATE AFFRAY.

Between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning a des-
perate encounter occurred between a party of poachers
and two gamekeepers, when the latter were left for dead.
It appears that Emmanuel Cherry, head keeper to
Messrs. Wright, Newman, and Cooper, who have the
right of shooting over lands at Ardsley and Cudworth,
*as engaged with another keeper, named Jagger, in
in a pheasant cover called Oscar Wood, in removing
the pheasants to Land Wood, when they heard
the report of a gun, evidently not far from
where they were. They then started off in the direction
from which the sound proceeded, and in a field at a place
called Burton-grange they saw one man sitting in a hedge
with a gun, and two others in the field adjoining, ap-
parently driving game towards him. On seeing the
keepers the poachers commenced throwing stones at them,
and as they approached one of them cried out, " Shoot
the -." Cherry and Jagger collared the two men
who were in the field, and a desperate fight ensued,
but the one whom Cherry had to contend with had
a gun, with which he struck the keeper several
blows, one with the butt-end across the side of the
face, knocking him down and rendering him insensible,
and while in that state it was evident that he had been
severely kicked. Having rendered one of the keepers
incapable, the poacher then ran to the assistance of his
companion (the third one having run away), but was knocked
down by Jagger. As he had done so the first man Jagger had
to contend with got up, and, seizing the gun, gave him a
tremendousblo v., with the end of it over the forehead, render.
ing him also insensible. The keepers thus lay insensible for
some time, not far from each other. Jagger at last, having
become conscious, gave an alarm, and both were conveyed
to their homes. Jagger is very seriously injured, while
Cherry remains in a very precarious state. Medical
attendance was at once called, and every attention paid to
the sufferers. The police had information given of the
affray, but no apprehensions had been effected up to Sun-
day afternoon.

THE TICIIBORNE BARONETCY.—Last week the
wife of " Sir Roger Tichborne," the Australian claimant
to the Tichborne title and estates, gave birth to a son,
an event which, says a Hampshire paper, " was hailed
with much satisfaction throughout Alresford, Tichborne,
and the neighbourhood."

THE PERMISSIVE BILL.—An immense gathering
of teetotalers and temperance societies was held in Lord
Carlisle's park, at Castle Howard, on Friday, and com-
prised most of the abstainers of the North and East
Ridings. It was computed that in the afternoon fully
10,000 persons were present. Among the speakers was
Mr. E. Grubb, of Rotherham, who attended as a deputa-
tion from the United Kingdom Alliance, and who &Ivo-
cated the Permissive Bill, and called upon the assembly to
vote for no man at the next election who would not go for
it. On a vote being taken a forest of hands was held up
for the bill, and none against it.

At Leeds an association has been formed, having
for its object the passing of a new Municipal Reform Act
for the removal of the property qualification for councillors,
the annual election of the whole municipal body, the intro-
duction of vote by ballot, the abolition of the employment
of canvassers, cabs, or bands of music, the punishment of
bribery by imprisonment, the absolute control of all officials
by the council, the appointment of committees of super-
vision, consisting of ratepayers, who should overlook corpo-
rate works, and make suggestions to the committees of the
council, through their chairman, who should have a seat at
the committee, and t 49 collection of all rates LT sue oicgr
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