1908 - GYPSIES INVADE STAMFORD. Officers Called to Get Horses Out of a Meadow.

Bennington, June 29. - The town of Stamford was thrown into a disturbance Saturday by a large band of gypsies numbering about twenty-five men and women and half as many children. They camped on Ward Wells's farm and turned their horses into his meadow. A constable and several men who attempted to round up the horses and move the gypsies out of town were met with such a show of resistance that they retired and sought the assistance of Deputy Sheriff Patrick Morrissey. With the deputy's assistance several of the horses were taken to the pound and held for damages. The band was finally convinced that the authorities could not be imposed upon and took up the trail toward the Massachusetts state line.