ENTRENCHED IN LONDON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3997, 2 August 1915, Page 3

ENTRENCHED IN LONDON.

EXCITING BATTLE WITH GERMANS. A battle in a London"' square, in which a gardener entrenched himself in a greenhouse to‘guard against attack from a Gorman waiter, was described at Clerkenwell the otlnr day, when John Homan, of Myddleton Square, Islington, was sununrawl for assaulting Airs Emily Shur. Air Shnr ; of Myddleton Square, was summoned, for assaulting Eoma.ii. Mrs Shur said Homan was the gardener at the square gardens, and she remonstrated with him for turning her child out. He then punched her in the face and knocked her down. 'When she recovered he turned her out. Cross-examined, she denied seizing the gardener by the beard), so that he had! to push 'her off. Mr Ricketts, representing Human, said the gardener was in his seventieth year, and had been the square gardener for sixteen years. Shur wa.s a German released from internment, and one of the conditions he liad to observe was the keeping of the p ’ace. Homan said he turned! the chiiuroa out because, they destroyed flowers. Mrs Slitrr seized his board, and he hustled, the woman out. She said she would- fetch her husband, so witness padlocked the garden gate • and . returned to his conservatory, who re he locked himself in Mr. d’Eyncourt: Entrenched yourself 1 Mr Ricketts: Against this German. Witness said Shur climbed over the railings into the garden, and demanded! that the conservatory door should be opened or he would smash it. Witness therefore opened the door, and tilvo German struck him over the head with a cane, and gave kim a 'knock-down blow in the eye. Qross-oxaimmed, witness said there was not a “struggle” for the stick. He did not attack the German with /lower pots, nor attempt to bite Inis nose. Slmr stated lie, was a. waiter. When his wife came in bleeding he went to the gardens. There was a hail of flower pots, and wh i the gardener “tried to bite his m s. 1 ii. was time lie did something.” A.s witness retreated over the barbed wire and the railings the old man resumed the attack, and tried to “spike” the German's foot. Cross-examined!, ho said he never knelt on the old mail’s chest. The old man got his black, e.ve from witness' boot when (he was climbing the rails. Air Ricketts said the German champion of women was constantly at tho court for not paying an order made against him at the shit of a young woman. * Air d’Eyncourt said he thought he ‘knew the name. He dismissed tSio summons against Homan, finod Shur 40s. and awarded 40s damag s to Domain'