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Lansing State Journal
March 15, 1933


              FARMERS ARRESTED AFTER SALE BATTLE
              
              Tear Gas Disperses Crowd of 400
                at White Cloud; Three Men are Held
                
              White Cloud, March 15 - (AP) -
              A group of farmers, staging a protest demonstration
            against a mortgage foreclosure sale, fought hand to
            hand Wednesday with Sheriff WILLIAM C. BIRD and a group
            of 20 deputy sheriffs from Newaygo, Muskegon and Oceana
            counties.
              The protestors, counted by police at about 400, rushed
            the officers twice before they were driven off by a tear
            gas bomb. One man was stunned but apparently not seriously
            hurt when he was struck on the head by one of the officers.
              Three men arrested gave their names as JOHN W. ROSE, 59,
            of Croton township; JOHN BABCOCK, 29, of Hesperia, and
            JOHN CASPER, 25, of Scottville. They were held in the
            county jail without charge.
              The fighting broke out when the group, gathered in front
            of the court house to protest agains the sael, suddenly
            rushed the officers in an attempt to break it up.
            
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