Can This be in America 
flTere follows a true statement of the 
struffsle a New England farmer had with 
a gang of foreigners who were caught 
stealing his fruit. It seems incredible 
that such th’Hgs can be possible in any 
civilized section, least of all in the oldest 
settled part of the nat'on. Yet these 
facts and this plain recital are vouched 
for.] 
I was starting work when I saw men 
in my orchard, and saw one enter the 
bar-way. I ran down the road and saw 
five men at a Red Astrachan tree, one 
in the tree, the others picking apples off 
the tree or off the ground. One had a 
bundle under his arm A/hich looked like a 
bag. They started to run through the 
orchard, two together ahead and three 
in a row behind, and T caught the one in 
the center. I started for the house with 
him; the others jumped the wall to the 
road. The man asked me wnere we were 
going, and I told him to my house. He 
took a Red Astrachan apple from his 
pocket and started to eat it. About half¬ 
way to the house he called to his friends 
to come to help him and tried to break 
away. Seeing that I was alone the 
other four came running back. I threw 
the man down in the ditch and looking 
over my shoulder saw one man about to 
strike me. I called to my wife, but she 
ddi not hear me. The men hit me several 
times, tore my shirt, and then some 
Mrd object struck me on the back of the 
head and I tripped over the man I had 
down and went into the ditch. When I 
got onto my feet the men were running 
away. I went as far as the house and 
stopped to see which turn they took at 
the corner of the road. They turned to¬ 
wards the city, and I went in the house 
and told my wife to telephone a neighbor 
to stop them, as he was a si)ecial officer. 
I took my badge, my old single-barrel gun 
and two No. 4 cartridges, hitched up the 
hor.se and started after the men. At the 
first house a l)oy said the men had just 
gone down the hill. My neighbor was at 
h's house and said he was unable to hold 
the men. He got in with me and we soon 
caught sight of the men. At the foot of 
the lull they met another Greek and .stop¬ 
ped with him. I got out of the wagon 
and went round them. I told them to fol¬ 
low along behind the wagon, and they 
did so until we turned into another road. 
Then I told the neighbor that if he would 
stop w'hen we got to the next house, 
about 400 feet away, we could telephone 
for the patrol, and wait for it. I did not 
know then that my wife had put in a call 
for it with’n five minutes after I left 
home. In.stead of waiting he started to 
trot the horse, leaving me alone with 
six Greeks. The one who we had just 
met started to argue with me that he 
was not going any further, as he had 
not taken any apples. This gave three 
men a chance to run away, following 
along behind the team. I saw the driver 
get out and seize hold of one of the men 
and they went down on the road with 
my neighbor on top. Then one of the 
others struck him on the head from be¬ 
hind. I left the, men I was with and 
went to his a.ssi.stance, but they had al¬ 
ready started to run away again. I 
fired a shot in the air. The men did not 
stop. I took out the empty shell and 
put in another one as I ran. The neigh¬ 
bor called to me to fire again, and I did 
fire again in the air. As I fired I saw 
two Frenchmen standing on the right 
side of the road and the three Greeks 
were close together on the left. One 
Greek was hit in the back of the neck 
and two Frenchmen were hit in the neck 
and one in the cheek. The Greeks kept 
on, w’th one on each side of the man who 
was hit. 
At the next house I asked a boy to go 
hack to bring uti the team. I followed 
the men tintil they stopped at a house 
in the Greek colony on this same road. 
I waited a few minutes and the team did 
not come, and I turned back. Then I 
asked the boy if he went back to the 
team, and he said “No, his father would 
not let him go.” 
I started to go in the house to tele- 
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